Research guides: GEOG: Geography: B.C. geography

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Coasts under Stress by Rosemary E. Ommer.
Call Number: Online (unlimited users)
A unique interdisciplinary analysis of the social and environmental forces affecting local communities on Canada's east and west coasts.
The Land of Heart's Delight (print + online) by Michael Layland
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Call Number: GA 475 B7 L39 2013 + Online
With 130 maps, dating between 1593 and 1915, this cartographic history tells the story of how Vancouver Island and the surrounding area came to be mapped.
Chasing Clayoquot (2010) by David Pitt-Brooke; Robert F. Kennedy (Foreword by)
Call Number: Online
First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the Earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot Sound.

British Columbia by Derek Hayes (2012)
Call Number: G 1171 S1 H39 2012 (LAN)
Publication Date: 2012
A colourful and wide-ranging history of Canada's most western province illustrated with over nine hundred contemporary maps.
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast by Jeff Oliver (2010)
Call Number: FC 3845 F73 O45 2010 (LAN)
The Fraser Valley in British Columbia has been viewed historically as a typical setting of Indigenous-white interaction. Oliver reexamines the social history of this region from pre-contact to the violent upheavals of nineteenth and early twentieth century colonialism.
Geography of British Columbia by Brett McGillivray (2000)
Call Number: FC 3811 M33 2000 (LAN)
Focuses first on the combination of physical processes that produced a spectacular variety of mountains, rivers,lakes, islands, fjords, forests, and minerals. A concise examination of B.C. historical geography follows. The second half of the book contains a detailed description of the economic geography of the province.