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• The Hidden Places (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1922), by Bertrand W. Sinclair, illust. by Marshall Frantz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Thrice Armed (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1908), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Memorial Not Only for a Former Fellow Kiwanian and Chief Executive of the United States, but for the Spirit of International Friendship Between the Two Great Nations of the North American Continent Which Comprise Our Membership (written for the Kiwanis International Special Committee on Harding Memorial, 1923), by John H. Moss (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Legends of Vancouver (new edition; Vancouver: D. Spencer Ltd., c1911), by E. Pauline Johnson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Legends of Vancouver (eighth edition; Vancouver: Saturday Sunset Presses, 1913), by E. Pauline Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Legends of Vancouver (new edition; Vancouver: D. Spencer Ltd., c1911), by E. Pauline Johnson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Legends of Vancouver (eighth edition; Vancouver: Saturday Sunset Presses, 1913), by E. Pauline Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Nowhere was Home: The Street Kids and Their Truth, by Tim Wees (PDF at timwees.com)

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• Pageant of B.C.: Glimpses into the Romantic Development of Canada's Far Western Province (c1955), by B. A. McKelvie (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• On the Old Athabaska Trail (ca. 1926), by Lawrence J. Burpee (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Biographical Dictionary of Well-known British Columbians: With a Historical Sketch (Vancouver: Kerr & Begg, 1890), by John Blaine Kerr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• B.C. 1887: A Ramble in British Columbia (new edition; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892), by J. A. Lees and Walter J. Clutterbuck (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• 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)
• Canadian Camp Life (London: T.F. Unwin, 1900), by Frances Elizabeth Herring (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Overland to Cariboo: an Eventful Journey of Canadian Pioneers to the Gold-fields of British Columbia in 1862 (Montreal; Toronto: W. Briggs; S.W. Coates, 1896), by Margaret McNaughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Across the Canadian Prairies: A Two Months' Holiday in the Dominion (London: European Mail, ca. 1895), by Joseph G. Colmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Handbook to the New Gold Fields: A Full Account of the Richness and Extent of the Fraser and Thompson River Gold Mines (1858), by R. M. Ballantyne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Through the Subarctic Forest: A Record of a Canoe Journey From Fort Wrangel to the Pelley Lakes and Down to the Yukon River to the Behring Sea (London; New York: E. Arnold, 1896), by Warburton Pike (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of a Professional Lady Nurse (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1873), by M. Stannard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Travels with Samantha, by Philip Greenspun (illustrated HTML at greenspun.com)

• Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society, by Eugene Stock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Transplanted (Toronto: Collins, c1944), by Frederick Niven (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Gleaming Archway (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1929), by A. M. Stephen (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Skookum Chuck (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Stewart Edward White (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Secret Harbour (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1926), by Stewart Edward White (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia (Formerly New Caledonia), 1660 to 1880 (third edition; Toronto: W. Briggs, 1905), by A. G. Morice (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Biographical Dictionary of Well-known British Columbians: With a Historical Sketch (Vancouver: Kerr & Begg, 1890), by John Blaine Kerr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-Fields of British Columbia (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1916), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Early History of the Fraser River Mines (Archives of British Columbia memoir #6; Victoria, BC: Printed by C. F. Banfield, 1926), by F. W. Howay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (39 volumes, published 1882-1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Young Alaskans on the Trail (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1911), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Canadian Camp Life (London: T.F. Unwin, 1900), by Frances Elizabeth Herring (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dead Fish and Fat Cats: A No-Nonsense Journey Through Our Dysfunctional Fishing Industry (Vancouver: Granville Island Pub., c2002), by Eric Wickham (PDF with commentary at viacorp.com)

• Pioneer Climbing in a New Switzerland: Fascinations and Dangers of Mountain Climbing in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks (reprinted from The Technical World, 1905), by Charles Ernest Fay (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Old Athabaska Trail (ca. 1926), by Lawrence J. Burpee (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Early History of the Fraser River Mines (Archives of British Columbia memoir #6; Victoria, BC: Printed by C. F. Banfield, 1926), by F. W. Howay (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Metlakahtla (London; New York: Saxon, 1887), by Henry S. Wellcome (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (1816), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (Middletown: Loomis and Richards, 1815), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America, by Edmond S. Meany (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1912), by Edgar Fawcett (Gutenberg text)

• Catalogue of British Columbia Birds (1904), by British Columbia Provincial Museum and Francis Kermode (Gutenberg text)
• A Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia, by Allan Brooks and H. S. Swarth (PDF at unm.edu)

• Our Lady of Lourdes (Kamloops, BC: St. Louis Mission, 1893), by Jean-Marie J. Le Jacq and J. M. R. Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Cruise Among Haida and Tlingit Villages About Dixon's Entrance (reprinted from Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, June 1898), by George A. Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Haida Texts and Myths, Skidegate Dialect (Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin #29; Washington: GPO, 1905), by John Reed Swanton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Passing of a Race, and More Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1905), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fruit Ranching in British Columbia (London: A. and C. Black, 1909), by J. T. Bealby, illust. by R. M. McQuarrie and N. Brydges (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

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