Vanishing the Haida: George Dawson's ethnographic vision and the making of settler space on the Queen Charlotte Islands in the late nineteenth century

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 373-398

  Grek Martin, Jason ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; COLONIALISM; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; ETHNIC GROUP; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS;

EID: 34548572416     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2007.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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