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• Haida language
• Kwakiutl language
• Ntlakyapamuk language
• Nuu-chah-nulth language
• Salish language
• Tlingit language
• Tsimshian language
• Tsimshian languages
• Wakashan languages
• Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Languages

• Dictionary of Indian Tongues: Containing Most of the Words and Terms Used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook: With Their Meaning or Equivalent in the English Language (Victoria, BC: Hibben and Carswell, 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Haida Songs, by John Reed Swanton (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• 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

• Notes and Observations on the Kwakiool People of Vancouver Island (Montreal: Dawson, 1888), by George Mercer Dawson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Geographical Names of the Kwakiutl Indians (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology v20; New York: Columbia University Press, 1934), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Language (Montreal: Dawson, 1889), by Alfred James Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kwakiutl Tales (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, v2; New York: Columbua University Press, 1910), ed. by Franz Boas
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • English portions only: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com

• Geographical Names of the Kwakiutl Indians (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology v20; New York: Columbia University Press, 1934), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Vocabulary and Outlines of Grammar of the Nitlakapamuk or Thompson Tongue (1880), by J. B. Good (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Some Account of the Tahkaht Language, As Spoken By Several Tribes on the Western Coast of Vancouver Island (London: Hatchard, 1868), by C. Knipe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives, With Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials (with English translations and commentary; Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, University of Pennsylvania, 1939), by Linguistic Society of America, ed. by Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Indian Sketches (1863), by Pierre-Jean de Smet (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tlingit Myths and Texts, by John Reed Swanton (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Dictionary of Indian Tongues: Containing Most of the Words and Terms Used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook: With Their Meaning or Equivalent in the English Language (Victoria, BC: Hibben and Carswell, 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Am da Malshk ga na Damsh St. Matthew, Ligi The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Translated into Zimshian (translation anonymous, but attributed to Ridley; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1885), trans. by William Ridley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Some Account of the Tahkaht Language, As Spoken By Several Tribes on the Western Coast of Vancouver Island (London: Hatchard, 1868), by C. Knipe (multiple formats at archive.org)

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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)

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