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Daniel Francis

Daniel Francis is an historian and the author/editor of more than twenty books, including five for Arsenal Pulp Press: The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture , National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History, LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award), Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror and Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction. His other books include A Road for Canada, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade, Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations 1860-1940, The Great Chase: A History of World Whaling, New Beginnings: A Social History of Canada, and the popular Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He is also a regular columnist in Geist magazine, and was shortlisted for Canada's History Pierre Berton Award in 2010. Daniel lives in North Vancouver, BC.

Books by Daniel Francis

Becoming Vancouver

A History

by (author) Daniel Francis

Where Mountains Meet the Sea

An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver

by (author) Daniel Francis

Closing Time

Prohibition, Rum-Runners, and Border Wars

by (author) Daniel Francis

Selling Canada

Immigrants, soldiers, tourists, and the building of our nation

by (author) Daniel Francis

Trucking in British Columbia

An Illustrated History

by (author) Daniel Francis

A Road for Canada

The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway

by (author) Daniel Francis

Who Killed Janet Smith?

by (author) Edward Starkins
introduction by Daniel Francis

The Imaginary Indian

The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

by (author) Daniel Francis

Selling Canada

Three propaganda campaigns that shaped the nation

by (author) Daniel Francis

Seeing Reds

The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror

by (author) Daniel Francis

Far West

The Story of British Columbia

by (author) Daniel Francis

Imagining British Columbia

Land, Memory, and Place

edited by Daniel Francis

Operation Orca

Springer, Luna and the Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales

by (author) Daniel Francis & Gill Hewlett

Flashback Canada

by (author) J. Bradley Cruxton, Doug Wilson, Daniel Francis, Brian Harrison & Peggy Johnson
edited by Matthew Tran-Adams

Close-Up Canada

by (author) J. Bradley Cruxton, Doug Wilson, Robert Walker, Daniel Francis & Brian Harrison

Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada

Teacher's Resource

by (author) Daniel Francis & Angus Scully

LD

Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver

by (author) Daniel Francis

Discovering Canada's Government

by (author) Daniel Francis

Outlooks 5

Connections Canada

by (author) Daniel Francis

Canadian Issues

A Contemporary Perspective

by (author) Daniel Francis, Jennifer Hobson, Gordon Smith, Stan Garrod & Jeff Smith

National Dreams

Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

by (author) Daniel Francis

Imagining Ourselves

Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction

by (author) Daniel Francis

Fort Dunvegan, A Narrative History of

by (author) Daniel Francis & Michael Payne

Transit in British Columbia

The First Hundred Years

by (author) Brian Kelly & Daniel Francis