About Peter Ward Peter Ward is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books on the social history of Canada and the history of population health. Books by Peter Ward The Clean Body A Modern History by (author) Peter Ward A History of Domestic Space Privacy and the Canadian Home by (author) Peter Ward White Canada Forever Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia by (author) Peter Ward Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada by (author) Peter Ward