Jean Barman is a historian of

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. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work ''The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia'' has been described as the "standard text on the subject f British Columbia history" She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006

City of Vancouver Book Award The City of Vancouver Book Award is a Canadian literary award, that has been presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between th ...

(for ''Stanley Park's Secret''). She is a professor emerita at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.

Education

*University of British Columbia, 1982, EdD, History of education *University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship *Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russian studies *Macalester College, 1961, BA, International relations and history

Publications

Select work

* ''Growing up British in British Columbia : boys in private school'', 1982 * ''Indian education in Canada'', 1986 * ''The West beyond the West : a history of British Columbia'', 1991 * ''Sojourning sisters : the lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen'', 2000 * ''Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier'', 2000 * ''Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898'', 2006 * ''Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869'', 2016

References

External links

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Living people 20th-century Canadian historians Academic staff of the University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Faculty of Education alumni University of California, Berkeley School of Information alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Macalester College alumni People from Marshall County, Minnesota Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of British Columbia 21st-century Canadian historians {{US-historian-stub