He is co-director, with Ruth Sandwell and Peter Gossage, of the award-winning Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project (www.canadianmysteries.ca), and Director/Curator of a number of scholarly websites including the Colonial Despatches (formerly www.bcgenesis.uvic.ca), The Governor’s Letters (www.govlet.ca), Victoria’s Victoria (www.victoriasvictoria.ca), Fort Victoria Journal (formerly fortvictoriajounral.ca), and Auto(mobile) Biographies (www.autobio.ca). He is the author of Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations, which won the 2010 Harold Adam’s Innis Prize, and the 2009 Clio Award for British Columbia.