Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies

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contents Preface: Scholars and the Forty-ninth Parallel vii ken s. coates and john m. findlay Acknowledgments xxi introduction 1 / Border Crossings: Pattern and Processes along the Canada–United States Boundary West of the Rockies 3 ken s. coates PART ONE: THE PERMEABLE BORDER 2 / No Parallel: American Miner-Soldiers at War with the Nlaka’pamux of the Canadian West 31 daniel p. marshall 3 / Work, Sex, and Death on the Great Thoroughfare: Annual Migrations of “Canadian Indians” to the American Pacific Northwest 80 john lutz 4 / Borders and Identities among Italian Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest, 1880–1938 104 patricia k. wood v 5 / Nationalist Narratives and Regional Realities: The Political Economy of Railway Development in Southeastern British Columbia, 1895–1905 123 jeremy mouat PART TWO: NEGOTIATING THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY 6 / The Historical Roots of the Canadian-American Salmon Wars 155 joseph e. taylor iii 7 / Who Will Defend British Columbia? Unity of Command on the West Coast, 1934–42 181 galen roger perras 8 / That Long Western Border: Canada, the United States, and a Century of Economic Change 203 carl abbott PART THREE: NATIONAL DISTINCTIONS 9 / Borders of the Past: The Oregon Boundary Dispute and the Beginnings of Northwest Historiography 221 chad reimer 10 / Wild, Tame, and Free: Comparing Canadian and U.S. Views of Nature 246 donald worster 11 / Sleeping with the Elephant: Reflections of an American-Canadian on Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Canada 274 michael fellman Contributors 295 Index 297 vi Contents ...