1. Before history -- 2. The time of first contact -- 3. The alien intrusions -- 4. The Nootka incident and Vancouver's voyage -- 5. West from Canada -- 6. The doomed equilibrium -- 7. The fur empire: flowering and decline -- 8. The colonial era -- 9. The two colonies -- 10. Prelude to confederation -- 11. The decline and fall of the native societies -- 12. From Canada to the Pacific -- 13. Progress, profits, plunder -- 14. Party politics -- 15. War in a land of plenty -- 16. Doldrums and depression -- 17. Once more unto the breach -- 18. The tides change -- 19. Returning to the equilibrium.
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