About
Jennifer Chutter is a white settler scholar whose research and teaching interests include Canadian history, BC History, Colonial histories, Domestic histories, and Urban Studies. She is currently teaching Canadian history before and after Confederation and Global Indigenous Histories. Before joining Douglas College as contract faculty, she worked at SFU as the program coordinator of for-credit academic skills courses and as a sessional lecturer. She is currently revising her manuscript based on her dissertation, “Palimpsests and Placemaking: a critical inquiry into Strathcona as home,” which examines the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association’s activism and agency in preserving their neighbourhood from urban renewal. Her previous research was on the importance of the Vancouver Special as a localized form of domestic architecture and the ways it solved the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver during the 1960s and 1970s.

Education

PhD Candidate, British Columbia
MA, British Columbia
BA, Toronto

Room A3074, Coquitlam campus

yakashiron@douglascollege.ca

About
Nicole Yakashiro (she/her) is a settler historian of Asian Canadian history, race and racialization, settler colonialism, and property relations in northern North America. She is passionate about inclusive pedagogies, public-engaged knowledge, and accessibility, and is currently teaching Canada before Confederation at Douglas College. She has also taught as a sessional lecturer at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada after Confederation) and the University of British Columbia (Asian Canadian public history). She is currently completing her PhD dissertation which examines the intersections between Asian Canadian land-occupation and settler colonialism from the 1900s to 1960s in British Columbia. Her publications include, “‘Powell Street is Dead’: Nikkei Loss, Commemoration, and Representations of Place in the Settler Colonial City,” in the Urban History Review and “Daffodils and Dispossession: Nikkei Settlers, White Possession, and Settler Colonial Property in Bradner, BC, 1914-51,” in BC Studies.

Emeriti

Faculty Emeritus

About
Jacqueline Gresko has taught at Douglas College since it opened in 1970. She has designed and taught Canadian, American and women's history courses. She was the elected Chair of Arts and Humanities, 1988-1991. She has served on a wide range of College committees with recent service on the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Gresko directed the Fraser River Harbour Commission History Project, working with the Commission and Douglas and Kwantlen students, culminating in the publication of Fraser Port: A History in 1986. Gresko, born and brought up in New Westminster, attended the University of British Columbia where she received a BA Honours in History in 1969. In 1970 she completed her MA in Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her thesis 'Qu'Appelle Industrial School: White 'Rites' for the Indians of the Old Northwest' became the base for several published articles. In 1999 she finished her PhD in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Recent publications include:

"'The Serfs of the System": Oblate Brothers and Sisters of Saint Ann in British Columbia Schools, 1858-1920", Western Oblate Studies (4) 1996 "Roman Catholic Sisters and Japanese Evacuees in British Columbia", Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, Volume 38, No. 1 (April 1996) Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries on: L.J. D'Herbomez OMI; Pierre-Paul Durieu OMI; Henry Holbrook; Joseph Hugonard OMI; William Henry Ladner; James M. McGuckin OMI; and Salomé Valois SSA.

Faculty Emeritus

About
BA (hons) (British Columbia), MA (Toronto), PhD (York) Canadian and Asian History Frank Leonard earned both an Honours BA in History and a teacher's certificate at the University of British Columbia. After completing an MA in European and Russian History at the University of Toronto, he obtained a doctorate in Canadian History at York University. Besides working at Douglas, he has taught at Capilano College and the College of New Caledonia. He also served as a visiting scholar at Uppsala University in Sweden. Dr. Leonard published a revision of his dissertation, A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia (UBC Press, 1996), which received a Regional Certificate of Merit from the Canadian Historical Association.

He reviews other books on railways for numerous journals in Canada and the United States. He has also consulted on several native land claim cases involving railways. His work has elicited interviews and invitations from across the province, and he has appeared on both radio and television to discuss railway matters. He has now extended his research concerning railway development to Washington State and presented a series of papers to international conferences.