Jean Barman
# Jean Barman

Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject [of British Columbia history]." She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award (for Stanley Park's Secret). She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.

## Education

* University of British Columbia, 1982, EdD, History of education
* University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship
* Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russian studies
* Macalester College, 1961, BA, International relations and history

## Publications

Select works:

* Growing up British in British Columbia : boys in private school, 1982
* Indian education in Canada, 1986
* The West beyond the West : a history of British Columbia, 1991
* Sojourning sisters : the lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen, 2000
* Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier, 2000
* Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898, 2006
* Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869, 2016
