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• History of British Columbia, 1792-1887 (History Co., 1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of British Columbia from its earliest discovery to the present time (W. Briggs;, 1894), by Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Debate on the subject of confederation with Canada (G.P.O., 1870), by W. S. Sebright Green and British Columbia Legislative Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further papers relative to the union of British Columbia and Vancouver Island (in continuation of papers presented 25th June 1866). (G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions to Mr. Blanchard [i.e. Blanshard], governor of Vancouver Island (R. Wolfenden, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despatches and correspondence transmitted to the House of Assembly in Governor Douglas' message of 3rd September, 1863 (s.n.], 1863), by James Douglas and Vancouver Island (B.C.). Governor (1851-1863 : Douglas) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence upon the conveyance to the crown of certain lands by the Hudson's Bay Company ([s.n.], 1863), by James Douglas and Vancouver Island (B.C.). Governor (1851-1863 : Douglas) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Royal Engineers in British Columbia, 1858 to 1863 (R. Wolfenden, 1910), by F. W. Howay and Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver Art (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Cariboo trail a chronicle of the gold-fields of British Columbia (Glasgow, Brook, 1916), by Agnes C. Laut (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)
• Canadian Pacific Railway speech delivered in the House of Commons on the 20th April, 1880, by Hon. Wm. MacDougall, on Mr. Blake's resolution. (s.n., 1880), by William MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir James Douglas (Morang, 1909), by Robert Hamilton Coats and R. E. Gosnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Series of resolutions respecting the admission of British Columbia into union with Canada, to be proposed by Sir George Et. Cartier. (s.n., 1871), by British Columbia. Legislative Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proclamation by His Excellency, James Douglas, governor and commander-in-chief of Her Majesty's colony of Vancouver's Island and its dependencies (s.n., 1858), by Vancouver Island (B.C.). Governor (1851-1863 : Douglas) and James Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• Canada's diamond jubilee of confederation (Rose, Cowan & Latta, limited, 1927), by Vancouver (B.C.) Confederation celebration committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vancouver island and British Columbia. : Their history, resources, and prospects. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865), by Matthew Macfie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works. (History Co., 1882), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir (Victoria, B.C., 1914), by Provincial Archives of British Columbia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Blazing the trail through the Rockies; the story of Walter Moberly and his share in the making of Vancouver (News-advertiser, printers, 1915), by Noel Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of British Columbia from its earliest discovery to the present time (W. Briggs; [etc., etc.], 1894), by Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. (A. L. Bancroft & company, 1882), by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Herbert H. Smith, and Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of well-known British Columbians; with a historical sketch (Kerr & Begg, 1890), by J. B. Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Royal engineers in British Columbia, 1858 to 1863. (Printed by R. Wolfenden, 1910), by F. W. Howay (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Columbia from the earliest times to the present (S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914), by E. O. S. Scholefield and Frederic William Howay (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Pacific states of North America. (A. L. Bancroft & company, 1882), by Hubert Howe Bancroft and A.L. Bancroft & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. (History Co., 1883), by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William John Talbot, Henry Stiner, Henry Lebbeus Oak, John O. Haman, Barbara Zelinsky, Robert Zelinsky, Henry Hortop, A.L. Bancroft & Company, and History Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the northern interior of British Columbia : formerly New Caledonia, 1660 to 1880 (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. (A. L. Bancroft & company, 1882), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of early British Columbia. (News-Advertiser, 1914), by W. Wymond Walkem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (A. L. Bancroft, 1883), by Hubert Howe Bancroft, History Company, and A.L. Bancroft & Company (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)
• West American history (The Bancroft Co., 1902), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cariboo trail : a chronicle of the gold-fields of British Columbia (Glasgow, Brook & Company, 1916), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the northern interior of British Columbia : formerly New Caledonia, 1660-1880 (W. Briggs, 1904), by A. G. Morice and Hudson's Bay Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 (London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1899., 1899), by Herbert H. Gowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of British Columbia, 1792-1887. (The History Co., 1887), by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Amos Bowman, Alfred Bates, and William Nemos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (The History company, 1886), by Hubert Howe Bancroft and History Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history; British Columbia (Comp. by the Lewis Publishing Co., 1906), by R. E. Gosnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• History o British Columbia (Hill Binding Co., 1906), by R. Edward Gosnell and Lewis Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Columbia, its history, people, commerce, industries and resources (Sells, 1912), by Henry J. Boam and Ashley G. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of British Columbia, Canada : history, topography, climate, resources, development. (Printed by W.H. Cullin, 1919), by British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of British Columbia, Canada; history, topography, climate, resources, development (Victoria, 1921), by British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief account of the province of British Columbia its climate and resources : an appendix to the British Columbia directory, 1882-83 (R.T. Williams, 1883), by Alexander Caulfield Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft history of British Columbia, 1792-1887. (History Co., 1887), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Columbia before confederation some odds and ends of early history (1776 to 1864) (s.n., 1899), by E. O. S. Scholefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of British Columbia adapted for the use of schools ("Colonist" Presses, 1893), by O. H. Cogswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of well-known British Columbians with a historical sketch (Kerr & Begg, 1890), by J. B. Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victoria illustrated devoted to the interests of Victoria and Vancouver Island : a brief history of Victoria from 1842 with pen sketches of the prominent business and professional firms in the city (Victoria Pub. Co., 1892), by T. Thomson Everett (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)
• Facts and figures relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia showing what to expect and how to get there; with illustrative maps (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by J. Despard Pemberton (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Columbia from the earliest times to the present (S.J. Clarke, 1913), by E. O. S. Scholefield and F. W. Howay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of British Columbia (s.n.], 1901), by R. Edward Gosnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British Columbia coast names, 1592-1906 to which are added a few names in adjacent United States territory, their origin and history (Govt. Print. Bureau, 1909), by John T. Walbran and Geographic Board of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of British Columbia. (British Columbia Historical Association, 1913), by Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield, R. E. Gosnell, and British Columbia Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft... (Arno Press), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Cariboo trail : a chronicle of the gold-fields of British Columbia (Glasgow, Brook, and Co., 1921), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of British Columbia. : Adapted for the use of schools. (Colonist Presses, 1894), by Oliver H. Cogswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of British Columbia. Part one being a survey of events from the earliest times down to the union of the crown colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada [by] E. O. S. Scholefield ... part two, being a history, mainly political and economic, of the province wince confederation up to the present time [by] R. E. Gosnell ... (British Columbia Historical Association, 1913), by E. O. S. Scholefield and R. Edward Gosnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• [The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft] (D. Appleton & co., 1874), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• From coalmine to castle : the story of the Dunsmuirs of Vancouver Island (Pageant Press, 1955), by James Audain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Archives of British Columbia. (Victoria, B.C., 1914), by Provincial Archives of British Columbia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. (W. Hebberd, 1963), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British Columbia : the making of a province (Toronto : Ryerson Press, [1928], 1928), by F. W. Howay (page images at HathiTrust)

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