Historical Resources

Research
Information contained in this website was researched by historian Shaun S. Nichols and freelance writer Taimi Dunn Gorman.

Resources
Archives of the Heritage Flight Museum. Bellingham, Washington.
The Bellingham Herald and Herald Archives
Cox, Kira M. Top Whatcom County newsmakers of the 2000s. (The Bellingham Herald, December 28, 2009).
Eskenazi, Stuart. Bellingham tackles change head-on. (The Seattle Times, July 31, 2002).
Fairhaven District Website
Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).
Friday, Chris. Whatcom Creek: A History of a Place. (1999).
Friday, Chris. Whatcom Creek: A History of a Place; Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855. (Historylink: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, January 1, 2000).
Hitchman, James H. The Port of Bellingham: 1920-1970. (Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Occasional Paper #1: 1972)
Hunsby, George Hunsby. The Birth, Death and Resurrection of Fairhaven (Facsimile Edition). (Chuckanut Editions, 2009).
Kamb, Lewis. Boldt Decision ‘Very Much Alive’; 30 Years After Judge Awarded Tribes Half of Salmon…; The Fish Bonanza is Over; Now, Preserving Habitat is a Paramount Issue. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 12, 2004).
Kawada, Eijiro. Salmon Fishing Only an Echo of the Past; Far fewer recreational anglers and commercial operations on the waters; [South Sound Edition]. (The News Tribune, February 17, 2004).
Key, Christopher. Port Proceeds at Flank Speed. (Whatcom County Business Pulse, vol. 29, no. 8, August 2002, 13).
Lieb, Emily Lieb. Bellingham - Thumbnail History. (Historylink: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, August 20, 2006).
Pacific American Fisheries Records: Company History. (Center for Pacific Northwest Studies).
Port of Bellingham. 1927 Yearbook.
Port of Bellingham. Celebrating 75 Years: 1920-1995. (Pamphlet: 1995).
Port of Bellingham. Master Plan for Port and Industrial Development: A Report to The Port of Bellingham Commission, Bellingham, Washington June 1958. (New York: Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton Engineers).
Roth, Lottie Roeder. History of Whatcom County, quoted in Friday, "Whatcom Creek: A History of a Place." (Chicago: Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1926).
Squalicum Harbor Fishermen's Memorial "Safe Return" Bellingham, Washington.
Tillson, Penny and Tyrone, historians. The Fairhaven Gazette.
Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855. (Historylink: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, January 1, 2000).
Whatcom County Website