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Klatsassan: and Other Reminiscences of Missionary Life in British Columbia (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1873), by R. C. Lundin Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society, by Eugene Stock
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- Gutenberg text
The North-West Coast of America: Being Results of Recent Ethnological Researches From the Collections of the Royal Museums At Berlin (multiple formats at archive.org)
Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia: With a Map Illustrating Distribution (Montreal: Dawson, 1884), by William Fraser Tolmie and George Mercer Dawson (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Geography of the Tsimshian Indians (reprinted from The American Antiquarian, 1897), by George A. Dorsey
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Notes Archaeological, Industrial and Sociological, on the Western Denes, With an Ethnographical Sketch of the Same, by A. G. Morice (multiple formats at archive.org)
Notes on the Indian Tribes of the Yukon District and Adjacent Northern Portion of British Columbia (ca. 1887), by George Mercer Dawson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Canada on the Pacific: Being an Account of a Journey From Edmonton to the Pacific By the Peace River Valley and of a Winter Voyage Along the Western Coast of the Dominion With Remarks on the Physical Features of the Pacific Railway Route and Notices of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia (Montreal : Dawson, 1874), by Charles Horetzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
Guide to anthropological collection in the Provincial Museum ... (Printed by R. Wolfenden, 1909), by Victoria British Columbia. Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on the Indian tribes of the Yukon District and adjacent northern portion of British Columbia. ([Montreal, 1887), by George Mercer Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
Indians of the Northwest coast (Washington, 1890), by Albert P. Niblack (page images at HathiTrust)
Archaeology; the archaeological collection from the southern interior of British Columbia (Government Printing Bureau, 1913), by National Museum of Canada and Harlan Ingersoll Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
... Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes of British Columbia, with a map illustrating distribution (Dawson bros., 1884), by Geological Survey of Canada, George Mercer Dawson, and W. Fraser Tolmie (page images at HathiTrust)
Canada on the Pacific : being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley, and of a winter voyage along the western coast of the dominion : with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific Railway route and notices of the Indian tribes of British Columbia (Dawson Brothers, 1874), by Charles Horetzky (page images at HathiTrust)
Traits of American Indian life & character (Grabhorn Press, 1933), by Peter Skene Ogden and Douglas S. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
In the wake of the war canoe; a stirring record of forty years' successful labour, peril & adventure amongst the savage Indian tribes of the Pacific coast, and the piratical headhunting Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. (Musson Book Co., 1916), by W. H. Collison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Up and down the north Pacific coast by canoe and mission ship. (Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Young People's Forward Movement Department, 1914), by Thomas Crosby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
In the wake of the war canoe : a stirring record of forty years' successful labour, peril & adventure amongst the savage Indian tribes of the Pacific coast, and the piratical head-hunting Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. (Seeley, Service, 1915), by W. H. Collison (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers connected with the Indian land question, 1850-1875. (Wolfenden, 1875), by British Columbia (page images at HathiTrust)
Snapshots from the North Pacific (Church Missionary Society, 1903), by W. Ridley (page images at HathiTrust)
The Thompson country : being notes on the history of southern British Columbia, and particularly of the city of Kamloops, formerly Fort Thompson (Inland Sentinel Print, 1907), by Mark Sweeten Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
In the land of the head-hunters (World Book Company, 1915), by Edward S. Curtis and N.Y.) World Book Company (Yonkers (page images at HathiTrust)
In the pathless west with soldiers, pioneers, miners and savages (T. F. Unwin, 1904), by Frances E. Herring (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneer church work in British Columbia : being a memoir of the episcopate of Acton Windeyer Sillitoe, D.D., D.C.L. first bishop of New Westminster (A.R. Mowbray, 1899), by Herbert H. Gowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Klatsassan, and other reminiscences of missionary life in British Columbia (Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1873), by Robert Christopher Lundin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
In the wake of the war canoe : a stirring record of forty years' successful labour, peril & adventure amongst the savage Indian tribes of the Pacific coast, and the piratical head-hunting Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. (E.P. Dutton, 1916), by W. H. Collison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, comprising a description of these dependencies : also an account of the manners and customs of the native Indians (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the northern interior of British Columbia : formerly New Caledonia, 1660-1880 (W. Briggs, 1905), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust)
The totem poles in Stanley Park (The art, historical and scientific association, 1924), by John C. Goodfellow, James B. Ford, Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian, and historical and scientific association Art (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The modern growth of the totem pole on the northwest coast (Shorey Book Store, 1965), by Marius Barbeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The new El Dorado; or, British Columbia. (T.C. Newby, 1858), by Kinahan Cornwallis (page images at HathiTrust)
In the wake of the war canoe; a stirring record of forty years' successful labour, peril & adventure amongst the savage Indian tribes of the Pacific coast, and the piratical head-hunting Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C. (E. P. Dutton & company, 1916), by William Henry Collinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Indians of the northwest coast (U.S. National Museum, 1888), by Albert P. Niblack (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes and observations on the Kwakiool people of Vancouver Island (Dawson, 1888), by George M. Dawson and Royal Society of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes of British Columbia with a map illustrating distribution (Dawson, 1884), by W. Fraser Tolmie, George M. Dawson, and Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
On the Canadian Rocky Mountains with special reference to that part of the range between the forty-ninth parallel and the head-waters of the Red Deer River (s.n., 1886), by George M. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
Canada on the Pacific being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley and of a winter voyage along the western coast of the Dominion with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific Railway route and notices of the Indian tribes of British Columbia (Dawson, 1874), by Charles Horetzky (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on an ethnographical collection from the west coast of North America (more especially California), Hawaii & Tahiti, formed during the voyage of Captain Vancouver, 1790-1795, and now in the British Museum (s.n., 1899), by O. M. Dalton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die anthropologische Untersuchung der Bella-Coola (s.n., 1886), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on the Indians of British Columbia (s.n.], 1893), by Alice Bodington (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada (British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1899), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Benjamin Sulte, Charles Hill-Tout, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada (s.n., 1900), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Benjamin Sulte, Charles Hill-Tout, Léon Gérin, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada] (s.n., 1902), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Charles Hill-Tout, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Church and the Indians the trouble at Metlakahtla. (s.n., 1882), by William John Macdonald and Edward Cridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Customs and arts of the Kwakiool (s.n., 1888), by George M. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Haidas (s.n., 1882), by George M. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on the Indian tribes of the Yukon district and adjacent northern portion of British Columbia (s.n., 1887), by George M. Dawson and Geological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on an exploration in the Yukon district, N.W.T., and adjacent northern portion of British Columbia, 1887 (Dawson, 1888), by George M. Dawson and Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
What befell the slave-seekers a story of the Haidahs on Queen Charlotte's Island, B.C. (s.n., 1888), by James Deans (page images at HathiTrust)
Up the Skeena River to the home of the Tsimshians (s.n., 1897), by George A. Dorsey (page images at HathiTrust)
The geography of the Tsimshian Indians (s.n., 1897), by George A. Dorsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Church work in British Columbia being a memoir of the episcopate of Acton Windeyer Sillitoe, D.D., D.C.L. first bishop of New Westminster (Longmans, Green, 1899), by Herbert H. Gowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ethnographical album of the North Pacific coasts of America and Asia pt. I (American Museum of Natural History, 1900), by Jesup North Pacific Expedition (page images at HathiTrust)
British Columbia report of the Hon. H.L. Langevin, C. B., minister of Public Works. (s.n.], 1872), by Hector Langevin (page images at HathiTrust)
Are the Carrier sociology and mythology indigious or exotic? (s.n., 1892), by A. G. Morice and Royal Society of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes archaeological, industrial and sociological, on the western Déné s with an ethnographical sketch of the same (s.n., 1893), by A. G. Morice and Canadian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes, archaeological, industrial and sociological on the western Déné with an ethnographical sketch of the same (Copp, Clark, 1894), by A. G. Morice and Canadian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
On the classifications of the Déné Tribes (s.n., 1899), by A. G. Morice and Canadian Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The coast Indians of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia (s.n., 1890), by Albert P. Niblack (page images at HathiTrust)
The North-West coast of America being results of recent ethnological researches from the collections of the Royal Museums at Berlin (Dodd, Mead, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Canada's El Dorado (s.n., 1889), by Julian Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
The Mediterranean of the Pacific (s.n., 1870), by Thomas Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
Special supplement of the Commercial relating to Vancouver Island, the adjacent coast and northern interior British Columbia (s.n.], 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenes and studies of savage life (Smith, Elder, 1868), by Gilbert Malcolm Sproat (page images at HathiTrust)
Metlakahtla and the North Pacific mission of the Church Missionary Society (Church Missionary House, 1880), by Eugene Stock (page images at HathiTrust)
Metlakahtla and the North Pacific mission of the Church Missionary Society (Church Missionary House, 1881), by Eugene Stock (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the superintendent of Indian Affairs, for British Columbia, for 1872 & 1873 (s.n.], 1873), by Israel Wood Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
Three years' hunting and trapping in America and the great North-west (MacLure, 1888), by J. Turner-Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on the Indian tribes of British North America and the northwest coast (s.n., 1863), by Alexander Caulfield Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Episcopacy in the rough (s.n.], 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Victoria, Vancouver's Island (s.n., 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Queen Charlotte Island (W. & R. Chambers, 1872), by Francis Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
Reis naar den Stillen Oceaan ondernomen op bevel van zyne Brittanische Majesteit, George de Derde, tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het noorderhalfrond : ter uitvoer gebragt onder 't bestuur van de bevelhebbers Cook, Clerke en Gore in de jaaren 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 en 1780 met de schepen de Resolution en de Discovery (By A. Bothall en D. Vis, 1788), by James Cook and James King (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial of William A. Slacum praying compensation for his services in obtaining information in relation to the settlements on the Oregon River, December 18, 1837, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. (s.n., 1837), by William A. Slacum (page images at HathiTrust)
Britisch-Columbia und Vancouver-Insel gegenwärtige Zustände und Entwicklungsfähigkeit der neuen Englischen Kolonie am Grossen Ocean. (s.n., 1858), by A. Petermann (page images at HathiTrust)
Wonderful adventures a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America. (J.B. Lippincott, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
How we went to Fort Rupert and made a strange purchase (s.n.], 1865), by John Keast Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord=ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789 dal Capitano G. Meares prima traduzione italiana ; arricchita di note, vedute, marine, ritratti ec. ; aggiuntovi l'estratto della relazione dell'Ambasciata di Lord Macartney alla China. (A spese di Giovacchino Pagani, 1796), by John Meares and George Macartney Macartney (page images at HathiTrust)
Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord=ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789 dal Capitano G. Meares prima traduzione italiana ; arricchita di note, vedute, marine, ritratti ec. (A spese di Giovacchino Pagani, 1796), by John Meares (page images at HathiTrust)
Lecture on British Columbia and Vancouver Island delivered at the Royal United Service Institution, on March 27, 1863 (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
A voyage round the world between the years 1816-1819 (Printed for R. Phillips, 1823), by Camille de Roquefeuil (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in British Columbia with the narrative of a yacht voyage round Vancouver's Island (Hurst and Blackett, 1862), by C. E. Barrett-Lennard (page images at HathiTrust)
The new El Dorado, or, British Columbia (T.C. Newby, 1858), by Kinahan Cornwallis (page images at HathiTrust)
Traits of American-Indian life and character (Smith, Elder;, 1853), by Peter Skene Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
Vancouver Island and British Columbia their history, resources and prospects (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865), by Matthew Macfie (page images at HathiTrust)
Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island an account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields, and resources for colonisation (J. Murray, 1862), by Richard C. Mayne (page images at HathiTrust)
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island comprising a description of these dependencies : their physical character, climate, capabilities, population, trade, natural history, geology, ethnology, gold-fields, and future prospects : also an account of the manners and customs of the native Indians (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
Wonderful adventures a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America. (Cassell, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Chez les sauvages de la Colombie Britannique récits d'un missionnaire (Delhomme et Briguet, 1897), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust)
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island comprising a description of these dependencies : their physical character, climate, capabilities, population, trade, natural history, geology, ethnology, gold-fields, and future prospects : also an account of the manners and customs of the native Indians (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
Guide to anthropological collection in the Provincial Museum (R. Wolfenden, 1909), by C. F. Newcombe and British Columbia Provincial Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
In the pathless west with soldiers, pioneers, miners, and savages (T.F. Unwin, 1904), by Frances E. Herring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Sprache der Zimshsian-Indianer in Nordwest-America (R. Sattler;, 1894), by Albrecht Conon Schulenburg (page images at HathiTrust)
Metlakahtla (s.n., 1887), by Z. L. White (page images at HathiTrust)
Colombie Britannique rapport de l'Hon. H.L. Langevin, C.B., ministre des Travaux publics. (s.n.], 1872), by Hector Langevin (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada. (s.n., 1900), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Léon Gérin, Charles Hill-Tout, Benjamin Sulte, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
First collection of minor essays, mostly anthropological. (Quesnel P.O., B.C., 1902), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the northwestern tribes of Canada (Office of the Association, 1885), by British Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the people of British Columbia : red, white, yellow, and brown (T.F. Unwin, 1903), by Frances E. Herring (page images at HathiTrust)
Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes of British Columbia : with a map illustrating distribution (Dawson bros, 1884), by Geological Survey of Canada, George Mercer Dawson, and W. Fraser Tolmie (page images at HathiTrust)
The coast Indians of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia. (Govt. Print. Off.], 1890), by Albert P. Niblack (page images at HathiTrust)
The Indians of British Columbia. A brief review of their probable origin, history and customs. (1899), by J. W. MacKay (page images at HathiTrust)
Stranger than fiction. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1873), by John Joseph Halcombe (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers relating to the commission appointed to enquire into the condition of the Indians of the north-west coast. (Printed by Richard Wolfenden, Government Printer at the Government Printing Office, James' Bay, 1888), by British Columbia. Commission on Condition of Indians of the North-West Coast and Richard Wolfenden (page images at HathiTrust)
The British Columbia Indian and his future. (Dept. of Missionary Literature of the Methodist Church, Canada, 1906), by R. Whittington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Traits of American-Indian life and character. (Smith, Elder and Co.,; [etc., etc.], 1853), by Peter Skene Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
Coiled basketry in British Columbia and surrounding region (Washington, 1928), by Herman Karl Haeberlin, Franz Boas, Helen H. Roberts, and James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust)
The origin of the Totemism of the aborigines of British Columbia ... (Royal Society of Canada, 1901), by Charles Hill-Tout (page images at HathiTrust)
Diocese of Mackenzie River. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1888), by William Carpenter Bompas (page images at HathiTrust)
In the land of the head-hunters. (World Book Co., 1919), by Edward S. Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)
Snapshot from the North Pacific (Church Missionary Society, 1904), by William Ridley and Alice J. Janvrin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the province of British Columbia ... (Printed by the Acme Press, Limited, 1916), by British Columbia. Royal Commission on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
Colombie Britannique. Rapport de l'Hon. H.L. Langevin ... ministre des travaux publics. Imprimé par ordre du Parlement. (Imprimé par I.B. Taylor, 1872), by Canada. Department of Public Works and Hector Louis Langevin (page images at HathiTrust)

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