A Sportsman's Eden

A Sportsman's Eden
Author: Clive Phillipps-Wolley
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1888
Genre: British Columbia
ISBN:

Hunting for Empire

Hunting for Empire
Author: Greg Gillespie
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774840382

Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so he produces a unique theoretical lens through which to study nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land. Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting for Empire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport, geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories of hunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.

Beyond the City Limits

Beyond the City Limits
Author: R.W. Sandwell
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774841435

The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here for the first time, decisively break this silence and challenge traditional readings of B.C. history. In this wide-ranging collection, R.W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who bring expertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken from social and political history, environmental studies, cultural geography, and anthropology. They discuss such diverse topics as Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resource extraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simply not broad enough to adequately describe those who populated the province's history.

Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1284
Release: 1919
Genre:
ISBN:

The Nineteenth century and after (London)

Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons

Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons
Author: Mark Zuehlke
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 155017746X

“‘Remittance man’ was meant to be a disparaging term. It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the colonies to spare their families continuing embarrassment or shame. At home they had been scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons without future prospects. Perhaps in…the Canadian West they would make something of themselves. If they didn't, at least they would be far enough away that little disgrace would fall upon their families.” —Mark Zuehlke Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society. Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title “remittance men,” these men set out to continue their lives of leisure in this new land. With education, respectable breeding and the belief “from birth that they were superior beings,” the remittance men descended upon Western Canada with expectations of accomplishing something great and increasing their wealth. In reality, they hunted, played games, courted women, and enjoyed distinguished pursuits that squandered their parents' money and made hard-working Canadians raise their eyebrows. Though their era in Western Canada was short, 1880–1914, “they left an indelible mark perpetuated by the stories and legends that sprung up around them.” In Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons, first published fifteen years ago, Mark Zuehlke traces the path of the remittance men through Western Canada, highlighting their adventures, limited successes and glorious failures.