LEADER 03740nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910780858103321 005 20230721024748.0 010 $a1-282-74044-X 010 $a9786612740442 010 $a0-7748-1547-7 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774815475 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007482 035 $a(OCoLC)646864035 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10348798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000475137 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000475137 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10463116 035 $a(PQKB)10338723 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000643446 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12242858 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643446 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10668698 035 $a(PQKB)21478950 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)431922 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00223504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3265359 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348909 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL274044 035 $a(DE-B1597)662021 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774815475 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007482 100 $a20081008d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBecoming British Columbia$b[electronic resource] $ea population history /$fJohn Douglas Belshaw 210 $aVancouver $cUBC Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7748-1546-9 311 $a0-7748-1545-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [256]-262) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAcronyms -- $tCradle to Grave: An Introduction -- $tWeddings, Funerals, Anything: The British Columbian Demographic Narrative -- $tThe West We Have Lost: First Nations Depopulation -- $tGirl Meets Boys: Sex Ratios and Nuptiality -- $tAhead by a Century: Fertility -- $tStrangers in Paradise: Immigration and the Experience of Diversity -- $tThe Mourning After: Mortality -- $tThe British Columbia Clearances: Some Conclusions -- $tLeading Settlements/Towns/Cities, BC, 1871-1951 -- $tTotal Population, BC, 1867-2006 (Rounded to 000s) -- $tAge and Sex Distributions, BC, 1891-2001 -- $tInfant Mortality Rates (IMR), BC, 1922-2002 -- $tNotes -- $tSuggested Reading -- $tIndex 330 $aBecoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia. 606 $aIndians of North America$zBritish Columbia$xPopulation$xHistory 607 $aBritish Columbia$xPopulation$xHistory 607 $aBritish Columbia$xHistory 607 $aBritish Columbia$xPopulation$vStatistics 615 0$aIndians of North America$xPopulation$xHistory. 676 $a304.609711 700 $aBelshaw$b John Douglas$01485854 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780858103321 996 $aBecoming British Columbia$93726598 997 $aUNINA