Adele Perry is Professor of History and Senior Fellow at St John's College, University of Manitoba. She has taught there since 2000 and held the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History from 2003 to 2014. Perry is the author of On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1846 1871 (2001), which won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the best book published on the history of British Columbia; co-won the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Prize; and was shortlisted for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities...