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In the Sea of Sterile Mountains
''In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia'' is a 1974 book by James Morton, published by J. J. Douglas. It discusses the politics and provides historical details on the Chinese Canadians in British Columbia, Canada from 1858 until the early 1970s. In particular it addresses the non-Chinese British Columbia community's belief that the Chinese were a "problem" that needed to be dealt with.〔Worden, p. 347.〕 William Willmott of the University of Canterbury wrote that "it is evident from the nature of his source material that Dr. Morton did not set out to write a book about the Chinese in British Columbia, but only about white reactions to them."〔Willmott, p. 136. "Historians will remain indebted to Dr. Morton for this labour of love, but its usefulness to them is sadly and unnecessarily marred by the lack of any scholarly apparatus whatsoever."〕
==Background==
The title originates from a comment towards the province in an 1874 speech by Edward Blake, a member of the Parliament of Canada from South Bruce, Ontario. He called British Columbia "an inhospitable country, a sea of sterile mountains."〔Willmott, p. 135. "Such meticulous scholarship, which must have involved long hours of diligent searching through the entire file of several newspapers, is work for an historian, and Dr. Morton will be the first to admit he is not one."〕
The author is not a historian.〔
The book uses six documentaries and secondary sources total.〔 There are extracts from two Royal Commission reports present.〔 The book also uses newspaper articles and editorials,〔 particularly those of Canadian newspapers,〔Worden, p. 348.〕 spanning over 100 years. Newspapers represented include the ''British Columbian'', ''Cariboo Sentinel'',〔 ''Colonist'' (Victoria),〔〔Morton, p. 149.〕 ''Gazette'',〔 ''Guardian'' (New Westminster),〔Morton, p. 152.〕 ''Herald'',〔 ''News'' (Vancouver),〔〔Morton, p. 146.〕 and the ''News Advertiser'' (Vancouver).〔Morton, p. 180.〕 Willmott described the collection of newspapers as a "labour of love",〔 and "meticulous scholarship".〔 Samantha J. Scott, the author of "Text as Discourse: The Chinese in Canada in Historiographical Perspective," argued, "Morton relies at random upon a very minute selection of newspaper articles and government records".〔Scott, p. 75〕
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