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Abstract: In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.

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Subjects: History; History of Alberta; Biography; Wardens; Banff; Banff (residents)

Abstract: The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton; Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders; Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler; Chapter Four: Exercising War; Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future; Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton; Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff; Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living; Chapter Nine: Nature reels; Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes; Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife; Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family; Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns; Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old; Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; Sources

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