Gunboat frontier : British maritime authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-90 / Barry M. Gough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gough, Barry M.

Series:

University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ; 4.

University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--British Columbia--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Canada--Government relations.

British Columbia--History.

British Columbia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marines, and ships of the Royal Navy on behalf of the colonial governments of Vancouver Island and British Columbia and, after 1871, of Canada. Barry Gough presents new historical evidence provided by the Admiralty Papers, an important source of information about nineteenth-century Northwest Coast Indian life. Drawing on these and other archival and governmental records, he chronicles encounters between the Royal Navy and the Indians over missions, piracies, Native slavery, liquor trafficking and crimes against persons and property, leading to the final cases of 'gunboat diplomacy' used against local Indians in the late 1880s.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Company and Colony

Dwellers Along the Shore

Tide of Empire

"This Miserable Affair"

The Smouldering Volcano

Putting Out Pires

Policy Making

Of Slaves and Liquor

Among the Vikings of the North Pacific

Piracy and Punishment

Policing the Passage

The Pulls of Alaska

Extending the Frontier

The "Customary Authority" Under Dominion Auspices

At Heaven's Command

New Zones of Influence: Nass, Kimsquit, and Skeena

Retrospect

Appendix I

Appendix II

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography: p. [267]-270 and index.

ISBN:

1-283-22546-8

9786613225467

0-7748-5399-9

OCLC:

243567196