John Belshaw & Diane Purvey

John Belshaw & Diane Purvey

John Belshaw is a former professor of history at Thompson Rivers University and currently Associate Vice-President of Education at North Island College, Vancouver Island. Mr. Belshaw is the author of Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of The British Columbian Working Class, 1848-1900 (McGill-Queen’s University Press), winner of the Robert S. Kenny Prize for Marxist and Labour/Left Studies. Also forth-coming is Becoming British Columbia: A Population History (UBC Press).

Diane Purvey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education and the Department of Philosophy, History and Politics at Thompson Rivers University. Research interests include the history of roadside shrines and other deathscapes in BC, history of child and family welfare in BC, and restorative justice practices in elementary schools. She co-edited Child and Family Welfare in British Columbia: A History (Detselig Press), with Chris Walmsley.

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