SHARON ROWSE

Author of The Silk Train Murder

Research

Selected Historical References

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Cannery Row in Steveston, B.C., Then and Now

Cannery Row and Steveston

  • Saltwater City, An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver, Paul Yee, Douglas and McIntyre, 2006
  • Richmond, Child of the Fraser, Leslie J. Ross, Richmond  ’79 Centennial Society, 1979
  • Steveston Museum: Photos and Stories:
  • A Small History of Finn Slough, David Dorrington  http://www.finnslough.com
  • Steveston honours its fishing past, Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun, August 19, 2011

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The Mascot Saloon, Skagway Alaska, Klondike Gold Rush National Park

The Klondike Gold Rush

Vancouver History

Vancouver in 1899

  • Vancouver, Then and Now, C. Davis & J. McQuarrie, Magic Light, 2001
  • Vancouver’s first century: a city album 1860-1960, A. Kloppenborg, Douglas & McIntyre, 1977
  • Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980, K.J. Anderson, McGill-Queen’s University, 1995
  • Vancouver’s Past, R. Hull, G. Soules, C. Soules, Univeristy of Washington, 1974
  • Vancouver from Milltown to Metropolis, Morley, A., Mitchell Press, 1974
  • Vancouver: An Illustrated History, P. Roy, J. Lorimer, 1980
  • The First 100 Years, R. Steele, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, 1988
  • A Century of Service: the Vancouver Police, 1886-1986, J. Swan, Vancouver Police Historical Society, 1986
  • On the Shady Side: Vancouver 1886-1914, B. Keller, Horsdal & Schubart, 1986
  • Vancouver at the Dawn:  A Turn of the Century Portrait, J.A. Cherrington, Harbour, 1997
  • Historical Atlas of Vancouver, D. Hayes, Douglas & McIntyre, 2005
  • Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver, P. Yee, Douglas & McIntyre, 2006
  • Vancouver: A History in Photographs, A. Vogel & D. Wyse, Altitude, 1993
  • Making Vancouver: 1863-1913, R.A. McDonald, UBC Press, 1996
  • Working Lives, Vancouver 1886-1986, Working Lives Collective, New Star, 1985
  • Vancouver The Golden Years 1900 – 1910, Photographs from the Philip T. Timms Collection, A Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association Publication. Copyright 1971
  • Making Vancouver, Class, Status and Social Boundaries1863-1913, Robert A.J. McDonald UBC Press, 1996

 

British Columbia History

  • British Columbia: a History, M. A. Ormsby, MacMillan, 1958
  • The West Beyond the West: A History of Second Sons – British Remittance Men in the Canadian West, M. Zuehlke, Whitecap, 1994
  • Builders of British Columbia, An Industrial History, G.W. Taylor, Morriss Publishing, Victoria, 1982
  • The Rush for Spoils; The company Province, 1871-1933, Martin Robin, McClellan & Stewart, Toronto,  1972
  • Transit in British Columbia: The First Hundred Years, B. Kelly & D. Francis, Harbour, 1990
  • Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia, Crawford Killian, Commodore Books, Burnaby 2008
  • http://victoria.tc.ca/Resources/bchistory
  • Pioneer Legacy (PL), Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River, volume 1, Norma V. Bennett, Dr. R.E.M. Lee Hospital Foundation, Terrace, BC V8G 2W7

The Coast Salish (Sto:lo) and the Katzie

  • Tribes of the Northwest, R. Ashwell, Hancock House, 1977
  • The Salish People, Vol III, the Mainland Halkomelem: Contributions of Charles Hill-Tout, editor Ralph Maud, Talonbooks, 1978
  • The faith of a Coast Salish Indian, by Diamond Jenness. Wilson Duff, editor.Victoria, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Dept. of Education, 1955 [i.e. 1956]
  • Coast Salish essays / Wayne Suttles , Talonbooks ; University of Washington Press, 1987.

Additional Research for The Silk Train Murder

  • Gentlemen Emigrants: From the British Public Schools to the Canadian Frontier, Patrick A Dunae, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1981
  • Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West, Mark Zuelke, Whitecap Books, Vancouver, 1994

Silk Trains

Opium Dens

 

Additional Research for The Lost Mine Murders

  • Additional Research for The Lost Mine Murders
  • Strong Medicine: History of Healing on the Northwest Coast, R.E. McKechnie, J.J. Douglas, 1972

Colorado History

Denver History

  • The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916, Thomas Noel, University Press of Colorado, 1996
  • Denver in Slices, Louisa Ward Arps, Swallow Press, 1998

 

Additional Research For The Missing Heir Murders:

  • Marching as to War: Canada’s Turbulent Years, 1899-1953, Pierre Berton, Anchor, Canada, 2002
  • Sam Steele’s Papers:
  • A Flannel Shirt & Liberty: British Emigrant Gentlewomen in the Canadian West, 1880-1914, Susan Jackel, editor, UBC Press, Vancouver, 1982
  • The Heavens are Changing: Ninteenth-Century Protestant missions and Tsimshian Christianity, Susan Neylan-McGill, Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2003
  • From Mountain to Mountain: A History of the Gitskan Village of Ans’pa yaxw, Maureen Cassidy, Ans’pa yaxw School Society, 1984
  • Pioneer Legacy (PL): Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River, volume 1, Norma V. Bennett, Dr. R.E.M. Lee Hospital Foundation, Terrace, BC V8G 2W7
  • Early Days on the Skeena River, Sandra McHarg & Maureen Cassidy, Northwest Community College, Hazelton, Bc, 1980
  • British Columbia Geological Surveys, 1895-1995: A Century of Science and Dedication, Atholl Sutherland Brown, Pacific Section, Geological Association of Canada,
  • Manson Creek:    http://www.mansoncreek.com     http://gpex.ca/smf/index.php?topic=11261.0;wap2 http://www.mansoncreekhistoricsociety.mansoncreek.com
  • Steam trains:  http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR/ships/bccs/history.html
  • Hastings  Park Raceway, Vancouver, B.C.:  Horseracinginfo.com     horseracing.com

Additional Research for The Terminal City Murders

  • Building the West: Early Architects of British Columbia, Compiled and edited by Donald Luxton, 2nd edition, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 2007
  • Canada in the European Age: 1453-1919, R.T. Naylor, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1987
  • Historical Atlas of Vancouver ad the Lower Fraser Valley, Derek Hayes, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, Toronto, Berkley, 2005
  • The History of the Vancouver Club, Paul L. Bissley, The Vancouver Club, Vancouver, 1971
  • Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow: A History of Vancouver’s Terminal City Club, David Ricardo Williams, 1992
  • Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide; Harold Kalman, Ron Phillips & Robin Ward; UBC Press;  Vancouver, 1993
  • Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide; Harold Kalman & Robin Ward; Douglas & McIntyre;  Vancouver, 2012
  • Heritage Walks Around Vancouver, Michael Kluckner & John Atkin, Whitecap Books, Vancouver, 1992
  • Vancouver, Stories of a City: A History of Vancouver’s Neighborhoods & the People Who Built Them, Lisa Smedman, The Vancouver Courier, Vancouver, 2008

 

Additional Research for The Cannery Row Murders

  • “He Thought He Was the Boss of Everything”, Masculinity and Power in a Vancouver Family, Robert A.J. McDonald, Working paper of the Fifth Annual Seagram Lecture, presented on January 17, 2001
  • The Fisheries Strike:
    • Simon Fraser University Thesis, T. M. Stielow, 2012, Etd7374 Stielow, Timothy Mark
    • UBC Thesis, H.K. Ralston, 1900 Strike of Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Fishermen, 1965