Table of Contents

1. Introduction - 1774
2. Discovery and Exploration - Spain and France
3. The Maritime Fur Traders
4. The First English Traders
5. London Traders--Portlock and Dixon - 1787
6. The Voyages of Captain Douglas - 1788
7. The Boston Traders - 1789-1791
8. The French on the Northwest Coast, 1792
9. The Ship Ruby, 1794-1795
10. Changes in the Fur Trade, 1796-1809
11. Era of the Hudson Bay Company, 1821
12. Gold Discoveries, 1851-1853
13. The Wreck of the Susan Sturgis, 1852
14. The Wreck of the Vancouver, 1854
15. Early Coastal Surveys, 1866
16. Christian Missions on Haida Gwaii, 1829-1897
17. Condition of the Population, 1938
18. The Fishing Industry
19. Forestry--The Spruce
20. Settlement and Commerce, 1912-1921
21. Transportation on the Islands, 1946
22. Mining, Oil and the Military, 1949

Legal History and Documents

1. An Act - to define and establish the political status of Native Indians
2. Chapter 24 Application
3. Native Indians born in Canada, re: Jay Treaty (PDF)

More recent history

1. Haida Canoe makes Historic Voyage, 1989
2. Christian Discovery and Dominance and Indigenous Rights

Newspaper Articles

• The 1862 Smallpox Epidemic, April 2012