Bruce McIntyre Watson is a Vancouver, BC-based historian whose research focuses on both the maritime and land-based fur trade west of the Rocky Mountains. His archival work has been the basis for numerous articles and a variety of talks. Two books arising from this are Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898 (co-authored with Jean Barman), Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006, and Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 (3 vols.), Kelowna, BC: Centre for Social, Spatial, and Economic Justice, University of British Columbia, 2010.

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