Jean Barman is a Canadian scholar specializing in the study of

British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...

. 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 George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in British Columbia Literature, the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award (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 University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

, 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 * ''The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey''. 2004 * ''Stanley Park's Secret : The Forgotten Families'', 2006 * ''Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898'', 2006 * ''Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869'', 2016 * ''British Columbia in the Balance : 1846-1871'', 2022

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