Scott is an MA student in the History Department at UBC. Scott completed his undergraduate degree at UBC Okanagan in 2016, then considering his specialty to be early modern European history with an emphasis on British history. He has since come to familiarize himself more with British Columbia’s history and local histories. Scott has put these two interests together as he researches B.C. maritime history, with an emphasis on the Royal Navy base at Esquimalt, British Columbia during the late 19th century. Scott is a certified teacher, having completed his B.Ed. at U.B.C. in 2020.

Scott’s thesis examines how the Royal Navy base at Esquimalt, BC impacted colonial settlement and migration to Vancouver Island from other areas of Britain’s formal and informal empire. His work is a connective approach to better understand how matters of global-imperial significance impacted colonial development in British Columbia during the period between Esquimalt’s de facto establishment as Pacific Station (headquarters) in 1862 and its handover to the Canadian government in 1905.

Research Areas: History of Migration, British Imperial History, History of British Columbia

Geographic Regions: Canada, Pacific Northwest, Europe

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