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Jean Barman

Jean Barman, professor emeritus, has published more than twenty books, including On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2020) and the winner of the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award, Stanley Park’s Secret (Harbour Publishing, 2005). Her lifelong pursuit to enrich the history of BC has earned her such honours as a Governor General’s Award, a George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, a Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing and a position as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

Books by Jean Barman

Raincoast Chronicles Fifth Five

British Columbia in the Balance

On the Cusp of Contact

Invisible Generations

Iroquois in the West

Maria Mahoi of the Islands

Abenaki Daring

The Literary Storefront: The Glory Years

French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

Good Intentions Gone Awry

Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1

First Nations Education in Canada

Growing Up British in British Columbia

Indigenous Women and Feminism

British Columbia

The West Beyond the West

Stanley Park's Secret

Sojourning Sisters

The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey

Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia

Constance Lindsay Skinner

Judge's Wife, The

Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2