Subject Guides: Northern BC History Resources: Theses and Dissertations

UNBC Theses & Dissertations

Northern BC Archives encourages and supports academic research with its holdings. If you are contemplating or actively engaged in academic research for a thesis, dissertation, or academic publication related to Northern BC, we would love to hear from you at archives@unbc.ca.

The following is a curated listing of UNBC theses and dissertations related to Northern BC history. The full UNBC Theses & Dissertations Collection can be searched in the UNBC Institutional Repository.

"All the elements of a permanent community": a history of society, culture and entertainment in the Cariboo by Melanie Anne Buddle
Publication Date: 1997
"It Happened to Me in Barkerville": Aboriginal identity, economy, and law in the Cariboo Gold Rush, 1862-1900 by Mica Amy Royer Jorgenson
Publication Date: 2012
"She's the queen of everyone's heart": Community, gender, morality, and sexuality in the "Queen Val-Vedette" and "Queen Aurora of the Evergreens" beauty pageants, 1948-1970 by Alison Matte
Publication Date: 2012
'I must record the grit of my little wife Millie': Experience, representation and rual women in early 20th century British Columbia by Lorna Ivy Townsend
Publication Date: 2007
Beneath the waters: a microhistory of Ootsa Lake, a northern Eurocanadian community by Christopher John Wesly Beach
Publication Date: 1999
Building dams, constructing stories: the press, the Sekani and the Peace RIver Dam, 1957-1969 by Holly Nathan
Publication Date: 2009
Come hell and high water: the relcation of the Cheslatta First Nation by Katherine Buhler
Publication Date: 1998
Forest fire in the mountain ranges of north-eastern British Columbia: a historical perspective by Wendy Jill Vasbinder
Publication Date: 2001
Git Skee'een Niidiit: people of the Skeena River: Gitksan history in art by Judith P. Morgan
Publication Date: 2004
The glamour and the horror: A social history of wartime northwestern British Columbia, 1939-1945 by Mia Reimers
Publication Date: 1999
Gyetim gan: faces in the forest by Michael D. Blackstock
Publication Date: 1996
Historical migration patterns in the Upper Fraser region, British Columbia by Kyle Kusch
Publication Date: 2009
A history of the Gitxsan relations with colonial and Canadian law, 1858-1909 by Jeremy David Richard Williams
Publication Date: 2000
Madeline Izowsky, 1885-1979: a Polish woman in western Canada by Carol Lynn Box
Publication Date: 2003
Mapping the ground: a critical and creative exploration of the diary of ada Sykes, 1912-1915 by Pamela H. den Ouden
Publication Date: 2005
Negotiating the production of space in Tl'azt'en Territory, 1969-1984 by Philip Kluane Morris
Call Number: E99.T17 M67 1999
Publication Date: 1999
The newspaper wars in Prince George, B.C., 1909-1918 by Rhys Alan Pugh
Publication Date: 2005
Nihl Adagwiy t'gun Adaawaks GalksiGabin (Here is the Story of GalksiGabin): a modern auto-ethnography of a Nisga'a man by Andrew Robinson
Publication Date: 2009
Patterns of diffusion: the 1886-1888 measles epidemic and the expansion of settler influence in the Central Interior of British Columbia by Amanda Nicole Dinnes
Publication Date: 2014
The resilience of the Babine: the economic and social relations of the Babine to 1830 by Blake Emile Bouchard
Publication Date: 2012
The shapeliest legs under the council table: Defining the feminist influence on women in British Columbia municipal politics, 1950-1980 by Rebecca Jane Shorten
Publication Date: 2008
Soo ts'yawh 'Ilho Zah Ts'inli "We Are All One" Tl'azt'en Nation's Ancestral History of Yeko by Christoper D. Gall
Publication Date: 2011
Tool stones from the Punchaw lake Village site (FiRs-1), Nechako Plateau, British Columbia, Canada, by W.S. Lorenz Bruechert
Publication Date: 2012

Northern BC Research from Other Institutions

(Re)gained power: historical cultural artifiacts contemporary Nisga'a self-determination by Andrea N. Walsh
Call Number: E99.N734 W36 1995A MFICHE
Publication Date: 1994
York University (Print Only)
An analysis of the Tlingit gravehouse in south-east Alaska and north-west British Columbia by Diana Elizabeth French
Call Number: E99 T6F7
Publication Date: 1976
University of Victoria: McPherson Library and Special Collections (Print Only)
Ethnohistory and ceremonial representation of Carrier social structure by Vernon Kobrinsky
Publication Date: 1973
University of British Columbia
An evaluation of the perception of quality of life in Northwest British Columbia by Wallace George Bergen
Call Number: FC3845.N62.B4
Publication Date: 1977
University of Victoria: McPherson Library and Special Collections (Print Only)
The heavens are changing: Nineteenth century Protestant missionization on the North Pacific Coast by Susan Neylan
Publication Date: 1999
University of British Columbia
In the colonies of Tang: historical archaeology of Chinese communities in the North Cariboo District, British Columbia (1860s-1940s) by Ying-ying Chen
Publication Date: 2001
Simon Fraser University. Available online through Library and Archives Canada
In the spirit of the pioneers: historical consciousness, cultural colonialism and Indian/white relations in rural British Columbia by Elizabeth Mary Furniss
Publication Date: 1997
University of British Columbia
Merchants and the evolution of the North Cariboo, British Columbia, 1908-1933 by Manfred R. Malzahn
Publication Date: 1979
McGill University
Placer gold mining in Northern British Columbia, 1860 to 1880 by Allan Stanley Trueman
Publication Date: 1935
University of British Columbia
Settlement, trade and social ranking at Kitwanga, B.C. by Paul Prince
Publication Date: 1998
McMaster University
A thousand blunders: the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia by Frank Leaonard
Call Number: HE2810.G65 L46 1996
Publication Date: 1996
York University: Leslie Frost Library (Print Only)
To be free on our lands: Coast Tsimshian and Nisga'a societies in historical perspective, 1830-1900 by Carol Ann Cooper
Call Number: CA2ONUW 4093T52
Publication Date: 1993
University of Waterloo: Dana Porter Library and TUG Annex (Print Only)
Transport development and regional economic growth in Northeastern British Columbia by James Arthur Aylsworth
Publication Date: 1974
University of British Columbia
The Impacts of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Williston Lake Reservoir on the Tsek'ehne of Northern British Columbia by Daniel Sims
Publication Date: 2018
University of Alberta
*Research included use of Northern BC Archives holdings
Unbuilt environments :unrealized geographies of energy and enterprise in the Stikine by Jonathan Peyton
Publication Date: 2011
University of British Columbia
*Research included use of Northern BC Archives holdings
Infrastructure and Resources: Governments and their Promotion of Northern Development in British Columbia by John R. Wedley
Publication Date: 1986
University of Western Ontario