Creekstone Press

Creekstone Press Publications

Shared Histories

By Tyler McCreary

Description: This trade paperback is 9.5 inches by 9 inches, 264 pages long with maps, black & white photographs, references and an index.

ISBN: 978-1-928195-04-7

Price: $27.95

Shared Histories looks deeply into what happened at the intersection of settler dreams and Witsuwit’en reality in the small northwestern British Columbia town of Smithers. Planted in a swamp at the base of a mountain, this railway town tried to exclude the region’s first inhabitants. This collection of hidden histories reveals how generations of Witsuwit’en made a place for themselves in town despite local, provincial, and national efforts push them, and indeed all Indigenous peoples, to the fringes.

Reviews

Jeanne Clark Award Judges:

"Shared Histories is a well written, laid out and presented book that reminds us of the standard historic account, but with an amazing sociological and anthropological twist. It has accomplished…"
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BC Booklook:

"The BC Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for historical writing and $2,500 has been awarded to Tyler McCreary for Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913 – 1973, from Creekstone…"
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Ormsby :

"Long before the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report in 2015, many observers struggled to figure out how we got to a place in Canada where an…"
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Jane Stevenson on Culturally Modified:

"Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913-1973 by Tyler McCreary documents an important time in our history and offers a refreshingly honest view of the First Nation and…"
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Dr. Val Napoleon, Saulteau First Nation Law Foundation Chair in Aboriginal Justice and Governance, University of Victoria:

"Shared Histories is a new narrative and a new imaginary for all of Canada and it must be considered a primer for the ongoing journey of reconciliation – there is…"
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