Contents -- Figures and Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia -- 2 Strategies of Power in the Cordilleran Fur Trade -- 3 The Making of the Lower Mainland -- 4 The Fraser Canyon Encountered -- 5 A Population Geography of British Columbia in 1881 -- 6 The Struggle with Distance -- 7 Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak -- 8 Farming and Rural Life -- 9 Making an Immigrant Society -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.