Selected Historical References
for THE SILK TRAIN MURDER

The Mascot Saloon, Skagway Alaska, National Parks
Opium Dens
- Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon, B. Hodgson, Chronicle Books, 1999
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_dens
Silk Trains
- Silk Trains: The Romance of Canadian Silk Trains or “The Silks”, B. Webber, Word Works, 1993
- http://cprr.org/CPRR_Discussion_Group/2005/05/silk-trade-trains.html
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
The Klondike Gold Rush
- Klondike: the last Geat Gold Rush, 1896-1899, P. Berton, Anchor, 1972
- Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields, 1896-1898, W.B. Haskell, University of Alaska Press, 1998
- The Klondike Stampede, T. Adney, University of BC Press, 1995
- Two women in the Klondike, M.E. Hitchcock, University of Alaska Press, 2005
- A Klondike Centennial scrapbook: The Great Klondike Gold Rush, S. Cohen, Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1996
- Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike, D. Neufeld, F. Norris, Harbour Publishing, 1996
- Passage to Juenau: A Sea and Its Meanings, J. Raban, Pantheon, 1999
- http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/exhibits/klondike/
- http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com
- http://www.nps.gov/klgo/
- http://library.thinkquest.org/5181/
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/goldrush/index.html
- http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klondike/home/indexen.html
Vancouver History
- Vancouver, Then and Now, C. Davis & J. McQuarrie, Magic Light, 2001
- Vancouver's first century: a city album 1860-1960, A. Kloppenborg, Douglas & McIntyre, 1977
- Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980, K.J. Anderson, McGill-Queen’s University, 1995
- Vancouver’s Past, R. Hull, G. Soules, C. Soules, Univeristy of Washington, 1974
- Vancouver from Milltown to Metropolis, Morley, A., Mitchell Press, 1974
- Vancouver: An Illustrated History, P. Roy, J. Lorimer, 1980
- The First 100 Years, R. Steele, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, 1988
- A Century of Service: the Vancouver Police, 1886-1986, J. Swan, Vancouver Police Historical Society, 1986
- On the Shady Side: Vancouver 1886-1914, B. Keller, Horsdal & Schubart, 1986
- Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn of the Century Portrait, J.A. Cherrington, Harbour, 1997
- Historical Atlas of Vancouver, D. Hayes, Douglas & McIntyre, 2005
- Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver, P. Yee, Douglas & McIntyre, 2006
- Vancouver: A History in Photographs, A. Vogel & D. Wyse, Altitude, 1993
- Making Vancouver: 1863-1913, R.A. McDonald, UBC Press, 1996
- Working Lives, Vancouver 1886-1986, Working Lives Collective, New Star, 1985
- http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/story.html
- http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe
- http://vancouver-historical-society.ca/links
- http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/
- http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll
British Columbia History
- British Columbia: a History, M. A. Ormsby, MacMillan, 1958
- The West Beyond the West: A History of Second Sons - British Remittance Men in the Canadian West, M. Zuehlke, Whitecap, 1994
- Strong Medicine: History of Healing on the Northwest Coast, R.E. McKechnie, J.J. Douglas, 1972
- Transit in British Columbia: The First Hundred Years, B. Kelly & D. Francis, Harbour, 1990
- http://victoria.tc.ca/Resources/bchistory
[top]