Jean Barman

Jean Barman is a Canadian scholar specializing in the study 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 George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in British Columbia Literature, 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 The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey. 2004 Stanley Park's Secret : The Forgotten Families, 2006 Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898, 2006 Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869, 2016 British Columbia in the Balance : 1846-1871, 2022