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

• Published in: Public History Review
• Main Author: Gibson, Erin L.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: UTS ePRESS 2016
• Subjects: Wagon roads; Lillooet River Valley; identity; heritage; memory; indigenous; post colonialism; British Columbia; Canada; Fraser River; Goldfields; First Nations
• Online Access: https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/phrj/article/view/5326; https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v23i0.5326

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...