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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Prologue: Kenya, Another British Settler Colony
- Introduction: Answering a Canadian Question
- Background: A Place-Based Family History
- Part 1. Journeys to One Small Private Island
- 1. Unceded Territories: And the Place Called Jedediah Island
- 2. One Small “Private” Island, 1890–1910s
- 3. Ouentironk (Lake Simcoe): And Treaties
- 4. East End London to Ouentironk (Lake Simcoe), 1870s
- 5. Portage la Prairie
- 6. Harry and Mary Ann: Ouentironk to Métis Land, 1880s
- 7. The Jelly Connection: Jellyby, Ontario, 1800s
- Part 2. Way Back: 1640–1800s
- 8. Epekwitk (PEI): Its Original Inhabitants
- 9. “The First Bain”: William Bain of Epekwitk, 1760s–1890s
- 10. Francis Bain and the Fossil Fern of Epekwitk, 1842–1894
- 11. Wabanaki Confederacy and Pemaquid
- 12. New England Settlers, 1635–1740s
- 13. Lenape and Susquehannock of the Delaware River
- 14. ‘We Ye Ancient Swedes’: Peter Rambo and Brita Mattsdotter, 1640–1680s
- 15. Strathroy’s “First Settler,” Daniel Springer, 1780s
- 16. 61+ Crossings: “It’s complicated”
- Part 3. Arrivals on Coast Salish Territory, 1890–1920s
- 17. Coast Salish territory and Snauq
- 18. A Flood of Settlers
- 19. Bain Aunts in Kerrisdale: Mabel and Nell, 1910s–1920s
- 20. Will Bain: From War to Treaty 5, 1915–1920s
- 21. Letters from Vancouver in the 1920s
- 22. Stó:lō territory: Fort Langley, 1920s
- 23. Mt. Pleasant, 1910s
- 24. A Sojourn Down Under, 1908
- 25. 1909: Winnie and Morris of Mt. Pleasant
- 26. Jedediah Tragedies: Life and Death in the 1910s
- 27. The Ancestor I Hope to Be – and an Invitation
- Epilogue: The Families
- Related Reading
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