Barry Gough

Dr. Barry Gough, one of Canada's foremost historians, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of King's College London and Life Member of the Association of Canadian Studies, and has been awarded a Doctor of Letters for distinguished contributions to Imperial and Commonwealth history. He is well recognized for the authenticity of his research and the engaging nature of his narratives, and is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (Harbour, 2007), which won the John Lyman Book Award for best Canadian naval and maritime history and was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. Gough has been writing for almost four decades. He lives in Victoria, BC, with his wife, Marilyn.

Books by Barry Gough

The Curious Passage of Richard Blanshard

Possessing Meares Island

Churchill and Fisher

Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914

From Classroom to Battlefield

The Elusive Mr. Pond

Juan de Fuca's Strait

Distant Dominion

Fortune's A River

Through Water, Ice & Fire

New dimensions in ethnohistory

In Search of the Visible Past