Claiming the Land (ePub)
British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado
(Sprache: Englisch)
This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on a single year, 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush — the third great massmigrationof gold seekers after the Californian and Australian rushes in search of a new El Dorado. Marshall's...
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This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on a single year, 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush — the third great massmigrationof gold seekers after the Californian and Australian rushes in search of a new El Dorado. Marshall's history becomes an adventure, prospecting the rich pay streaks of British Columbia's "founding" event and the gold fever that gripped populations all along the Pacific Slope. Marshall unsettles many of our most taken-for-granted assumptions: he shows how foreign miner-militias crossed the 49th parallel, taking the law into their own hands, and conducting extermination campaigns against Indigenous peoples while forcibly claiming the land. Drawing on new evidence, Marshall explores the three principal cultures of the goldfields — those of the fur trade (both Native and the Hudson's Bay Company), Californian, and British world views. The year 1858 was a year of chaos unlike any other in British Columbia and American Pacific Northwest history. It produced not only violence but the formal inauguration of colonialism, Native reserves and, ultimately, the expansion of Canada to the Pacific Slope. Among the haunting legacies of this rush are the cryptic place names that remain — such as American Creek, Texas Bar, Boston Bar, and New York Bar — while the unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty continues to claim the land.
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Marshall
DANIEL MARSHALL is a fifth-generation British Columbian whose Cornish ancestors arrived in the Pacificprovince in 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush. As host of Canyon War: The Untold Story, televised onKnowledge Network, APTN and PBS, the author was subsequently Chief Curator for the Royal BC Museum's successful "Gold Rush: El Dorado in British Columbia Exhibit" in 2015. He makes his home in Victoria, B.C.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Marshall
- 2018, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1553805038
- ISBN-13: 9781553805038
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2018
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