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Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in History
  University of Ottawa, 1995. Dissertation: "Work, Wages and Welfare in Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Relations, British Columbia, 1849-1970."
• Master of Arts (History)
  University of Victoria, 1988. Thesis: "Losing Steam: Structural Change in the Manufacturing Economy of British Columbia, 1860- 1915."
• Bachelor of Arts (History and Economics)
  with Honours and Distinction, University of Victoria, 1983.
  Thesis: "Unstapling a Regional Economy: Innis, North and British Columbia, 1858-1901."

Selected Publications

Books and Edited Books

• Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal White Relations. UBC Press, 2008, 431pp.
• Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community Based Research in a World on the Edge, edited collection co-edited with Barbara Neis, McGill-Queens University Press, 2008, 338pp.
• Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, edited collection, University of British Columbia Press, 2007, 236pp.
• Situating Race and Racism in Time, Space and Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars, edited collection co-edited with Jo-Anne Lee, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005. 216pp.

Articles and Chapters in Books:

• "Introduction"and "Conclusion: Miles to Go," with Barbara Neis in Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community Based Research in a World on the Edge, McGill-Queens University Press, 2008, 338pp.
• "First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Aboriginal -- Non-Aboriginal Encounters on the North American West Coast," in John Lutz, ed., Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, (University of British Columbia Press, 2007) 30-45.
• "Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again," Introduction to John Lutz, ed., Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact. UBC Press, 2007, 1-14.
• “Not Managing for Scarcity: Social-Ecological Issues in Contemporary Fisheries Management and Capture Practices,” co-author with others, in Coasts Under Stress: Understanding Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health by Rosemary E. Ommer and the Coasts Under Stress team. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2007. 68-94. Authored 5%.
• “The Human Voice of Social-Ecological Restructuring: Jobs, Incomes, Livelihoods, Ways of Life and Human Health,” co-author with others in Coasts Under Stress: Understanding Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health by Rosemary E. Ommer and the Coasts Under Stress team. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. 296-323. Authored 14%.
• "Toward a Critical Literacy of Racisms, Anti-Racism, and Racialization" co-written with Jo-Anne Lee, in Lee and Lutz, ed.s Situating Race and Racism in Time, Space and Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars Edited Collection. McGill-Queens University Press. 2005. 3-29.
• "Work, Sex, and Death on the Great Thoroughfare: annual migrations of Canadian Indians to the American Pacific Northwest." Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans and the Western Border. John M. Findlay and Ken Coates, eds. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and University of Washington Press, 2002. 80-103.
• "Riding the Horseless Carriage to the Computer Revolution: Teaching History in the Twenty-first Century," Histoire Sociale/Social History, Vol XXXIV (68) November 2001, 427-436.
• "Making Race in British Columbia: Power, Race and the Importance of Place" in Richard White and John Findlay eds., Power and Place in the North American West, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).
• "'Relating to the Country': The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement, 1843-1911," in Ruth Sandwell, ed., Beyond the City Limits: Essays from British Columbia, (UBC Press, 1999).
• "A Gender and Work in Lekwammen Families, 1843-1970," in Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan and Nancy M. Forestell, eds. Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays on Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Oxford University Press, 1999) 80-105.

Reprinted in:

• Dan Glenday and Ann Duffy ed.s, Canadian Society: meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century (Don Mills, Ont. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.) Mary-Ellen Kelm and Lorna Townsend ed.s, In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.)
• "When is an Indian War not a War?: Canadian Indians and American Settlers in the Pacific Northwest, 1850s-1860s," Journal of the West, 38, 3 (July 1998) 7-13.
• "Sto:lo People and the Development of the B.C. Wage Labour Economy," co-authored with Keith Carlson in Carlson, ed. You are Asked to Witness: The Sto:lo in Canada's Pacific Coast History, (Chilliwack, B.C.: Sto:lo Heritage Trust, 1997) pp. 109-124. Co-authored with Keith Carlson.
• "After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia, 1849-1890," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, N.S. 2, (1992) pp. 69-94.

Reprinted in:

• C. Gaffield, ed., Constructing Modern Canada: Readings in Post-Confederation History, (Toronto: Copp Clark Longman, 1994) pp. 69-95. Readings in the History of British Columbia, (Vancouver: Open Learning Agency, 1997).
• Laurel Sefton MacDowell and Ian Radforth, eds. Canadian Working Class History, (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000). 2nd Edition and and 3rd Edition (2006).
• Bryan Palmer and Joan Sangster, eds. Labouring Canada: Class, Race and gender in Canadian History, (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• "Israel Wood Powell," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).
• "Robert Garnet Tatlow," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) vol. 13, 1021-2.
• "Light and Shadows: Canadian Capitalists in Latin American and the Caribbean," Journal of Canadian Studies, 28, 1 (Spring 1993) pp. 192-8. (Review Essay).
• "Technology in Canada through the Lens of Labour History," Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology and Medicine, vol. 15, no. 1, (Summer 1991) pp. 5-20.
• "Losing Steam: The Boiler and Engine Industry as an Index of British Columbia's De-industrialization, 1880-1915," Historical Papers, (now renamed the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association) 1989, pp. 168-207.
• "`Books which are no books': An Introduction to the Use of Nineteenth Century B.C. Directories," in The Researcher's Guide to British Columbia.... Victoria: Public History Group, 1988, pp. 1-13.
• "Interlude or Industry? Ranching in British Columbia, 1849-1885," B.C. Historical News, vol. 13, no. 4, (Fall 1980) pp. 2-11.

History-Computing Projects/Publications

• Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History, Co-director (with Ruth Sandwell and Peter Gossage).
  

  Co-originator and project co-director of a non-profit internet-based teaching project based at the University of Victoria. Its goal is to engage university and high school students in an exciting problem-solving activity while it teaches about the main themes, regions, and social groups in Canadian history and the critical thinking skills used in constructing a history. Students do not just learn about history -- they do it--creating a coherent narrative from non-consecutive and often contradictory sources. The series now has three websites and contemplates a total of 13 bilingual sites.

• We Do Know Know His Name: Klatsassin and The Chilcotin War. Director.
  

  An internet anthology of 400 documents (150,000 words) and 200 images relating to the Chilcotin War in the colony of British Columbia in 1864. A part of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Series. Translated into French as "Personne ne connaît son nom : Klatsassin et la guerre de Chilcotin." Launched April 1, 2004.

Colonial Despatches. Academic Director.


Electronic publication of Dr. James Hendrickson's transcriptions of the communication of the governor's of Colonies of Vancouver Island British Columbia with the Colonial Office in London. At the moment only the despatches of 1858 are available to the public. The rest will be added to the site as they are revised for the web.

• Auto-biographies. Director/Curator.
  

  An archive of first person accounts of their family's relationship with the automobile drawn from student projects in the university's "Social History of the Automobile Course."

• Victoria's Victoria. Director/Curator.
  

  A website on the history of Victoria, B.C. in the Victorian Era, built with research reports from student projects. Launched April 2002.

• ViHistory.ca. Partner (with Patrick Dunae).
  

  A series of searchable census, directory and assessment databases relating to Vancouver Island in the 19th Century. Launched April 2003. )

• Who Killed William Robinson? Race Justice and Settling the Land. Co-director with Ruth Sandwell.
  

  Internet Anthology of 200 documents (100,000 words) and 80 images relating to the death of a Black American immigrant in the Colony of Vancouver Island blamed on an aboriginal man who was hanged. The evidence suggests he may well have been innocent. The first in the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Series. . First launched in April 1997 and revised in 2001.

Other publications

• “Bed Jumping and Compelling Convergences in Historical Computing,” Digital History, University of Nebraska, 2007
• “The Web Gives and Takes Away,” CHA Bulletin, Vol 33 No 2, 2007, 38-39.
• "The War That Nobody Won," British Columbia Magazine, 47, 4 (Winter 2005) 42-49
• "Preserving Our Past Essential to Our Future", Op Ed Piece Times Colonist, May 26, 2005.
• The Researcher's Guide to British Columbia Directories, 1901-1939, a Bibliography and Index, Victoria: Public History Group, 1993, 210p (with George Young).
• The Researcher's Guide to British Columbia Nineteenth Century Directories, Bibliography and Index, Victoria: Public History Group, 1988, 150p (with George Young).

Periodicals Edited or Co-Edited

• Teaching History/Enseigner l'Histoire, Athabasca University, an occasional papers series co-edited with Jeremy Mouat. Teaching Women's History: Challenges and Solutions (January 1996) and Clio and Mars in Canada: Teaching Military History (December 1995).
• Canadian Historical Association Bulletin, Canadian Historical Association, Quarterly, Summer 1989 - Spring 1991, 160p

Current Community Activities

• Oak and Orca Bioregional School Board
• West Coast Region of the Canadian Red Cross Board
• Margaret Ormsby Scholarship Committee
• British Columbia Heritage Coalition
• BC Archives Action Committee
• Canadian Historical Association Internet Communications Committee: Co-Chair