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"As one looks at the stone the questions arise": Nativism, Mythologized Histories, and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in British Columbia (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation will shed light on the Native Sons of British Columbia (NSoBC), an influential 20th century fraternal nativist organization in British Columbia (BC) who in 1925 successfully lobbied for the creation of BC’s Historic Objects Act, the first broad heritage protection legislation in...