Notorious Georges

Jonathan Swainger was the first academic hire at the University of Northern British Columbia and has spent his career at the campuses in Terrace, Fort St. John, and Prince George. One of the university's founding mandates was to produce the histories of northern British Columbia and, in that vein, he has published articles on the Peace River region and on a post–Second World War juvenile delinquency panic in Prince George, as well as Aspiration: A History of the University of Northern British Columbia, a book-length account of the university that won the Jeanne Clarke local history award in 2017.

• Introduction: Anxious at the Very Gates of Hell1 Establishing the Georges and the Birth of a Bad Reputation2 The British Columbia Provincial Police, Regulatory Policing, and Keeping the Peace3 City Governance and the Prince George City Police4 Holding Court in the Georges5 Sensations, Front-Page Crime, and Community IdentityEpilogue: That Prince George BusinessNotes; Bibliography; Index

"Swainger writes for a broad audience, seeking readers not just in academia, but also those generally interested in local, BC, crime, or policing history."(British Columbia History.) "[… The Notorious Georges] tell an important story about British Columbian settler culture and racialized communities."- John Douglas Belshaw, Thompson Rivers University (BC Studies) "It's quite a story and quite a complicated one. Dr. Swainger has done a masterful job organizing a mountain of material into a coherent and very interesting saga"- Steven Brown (The BC Review)