Daniel P. Marshall
Works by Daniel P. Marshall:
From ABC BookWorld, "Daniel P. Marshall won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book Claiming the land: British Columbia and the making of a new El Dorado. The $2,500 prize, sponsored by UBC Library, Pacific BookWorld News Society and Yosef Wosk, was awarded at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in April of 2019.
As a fifth-generation British Columbian whose Cornish ancestors arrived in the Pacific province in 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush, Daniel Marshall of Victoria was Chief Curator for the Royal BC Museum's 'Gold Rush: El Dorado in British Columbia Exhibit' in 2015 and he hosted the documentary Canyon War: The Untold Story, televised on Knowledge Network, APTN and PBS. As an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Victoria, he often takes his students into the Fraser Canyon to experience the landscape and its stories firsthand.
Previously, Daniel P. Marshall produced the first history of the Cowichan peoples written for, and approved by, the Cowichan Tribes. Originally intended as an educational text for Cowichan youth, Those Who Fell From The Sky (Rainshadow Press, 2000) begins with the first 'heaven-sent' Cowichans who were dropped at various points among the wilderness long ago. Cowichan elders once assured young people that one day they would be compensated for land illegally annexed; it was only a matter of time and patience. Marshall outlines some of the land claims issues that remained unsettled as the 21st century began. Those Who Fell from the Sky: A History of the Cowichan Peoples received a BC2000 Millennium Award. Dr. Marshall serves as a Special Advisor on gold rushes to the Royal BC Museum.