Remembering Tomorrow: Wagon Roads, Identity and the Decolonization of a First Nations Landscape

• Published in: Public History Review
• Main Author: Erin L.S. Gibson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: UTS ePRESS 2016
• Subjects: Wagon roads; Lillooet River Valley; identity; heritage; memory; indigenous; History (General); D1-2009; Canada; British Columbia; Fraser River; Goldfields; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v23i0.5326; https://doaj.org/article/922ea3c0c1824be382df4cdb9305bb3f

Roads embody the experiences of those who construct, use and maintain them through time. Using a biographical approach I explore how memory and identity are entangled in the material remains of a wagon road in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. First constructed by the Royal Engineers in 1859 to...