Chris Clarkson

Dr. Chris Clarkson

Professor, Department of History

Office: Salmon Arm Campus, SA 109
Telephone: 250-832-2126, ext. 8248
E-mail: cclarkson@okanagan.bc.ca

University Degrees

B.A. (distinction), University of Victoria
M.A., University of Victoria
Ph.D., University of Ottawa

Courses

History of Canada
History of British Columbia
Aboriginal-Settler Relations in Canada
History of the United States
History of Modern China
History of Modern Japan and Korea

Fields of interest

Legal History
Social History
First Nations

Current research / scholarly activity

Debtor-creditor relations on colonial Vancouver Island

Theses

“Liberalism, Nation Building, and Family Regulation: the State and the use of Family Property Law on Vancouver Island and in the United Colony / Province of British Columbia.” M.A. thesis, University of Victoria, 1996.

“Remoralizing Families? Family Regulation and State Formation in British Columbia, 1862-1940.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Ottawa, 2002.

Publications

“Property Law and Family Regulation in Pacific British North America, 1862-1873.” Histoire sociale / Social History 30, no. 60 (1997): 386-416. Read the Article

Domestic Reforms: Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. Book Details at UBC Press