Audio Archive
In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of BC Studies, we have recorded forty of the most influential and engaging articles published to date. The articles are available to stream and download free of charge!
BC Studies would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Magazine Fund.
The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858 by Richard Somerset Mackie
BC Studies #96 (Winter 1992), pgs: 3-40
Archive
- Aboriginal Culture
- "Here Comes the Band!": Cultural Collaboration, Connective Traditions, and Aboriginal Brass Bands on British Columbia's North Coast, 1875-1964 by Susan Neylan, Melissa Meyer
BC Studies #152, Past Emergent (Winter 2006), pgs: 35-66 - Living on Display: Colonial Visions of Aboriginal Domestic Spaces by Paige Raibmon
BC Studies #140, Domestic Spaces (Winter 2003), pgs: 69-89 - Managing Diversity in the Representation of BC History: Point Ellice House and "Chinatown" by Misao Dean
BC Studies #136 (Winter 2002), pgs: 57-72 - Performing Musqueam Culture and History at British Columbia's 1966 Centennial Celebrations by Susan Roy
BC Studies #135, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture (Autumn 2002), pgs: 55-90 - "That's My Dinner on Display" : A First Nations Reflection on Museum Culture by Gloria Jean Frank
BC Studies #125/126, Ethnographic Eyes (Spring/Summer 2000), pgs: 163-78 - "A New Understanding of Things Indian": George Raley's Negotiation of the Residential School Experience by Paige Raibmon
BC Studies #110 (Summer 1996), pgs: 69-96 - "Copying People": Northwest Coast Native Response to Early Photography by Margaret B. Blackman
BC Studies #52, The Past in Focus: Photography & British Columbia, 1858-1914 (Winter 1981), pgs: 86-112
- "Here Comes the Band!": Cultural Collaboration, Connective Traditions, and Aboriginal Brass Bands on British Columbia's North Coast, 1875-1964 by Susan Neylan, Melissa Meyer
- Anthropology
- The Pivotal Role of the Northwest Coast in the History of Americanist Anthropology by Regna Darnell
BC Studies #125/126, Ethnographic Eyes (Spring/Summer 2000), pgs: 33-52 - Invention of Anthropology in British Columbia's Supreme Court: Oral Tradition as Evidence in Delgamuukw v. B.C. by Julie Cruikshank
BC Studies #95, Anthropology and History in the Courts (Autumn 1992), pgs: 25-42 - Ethnography and Archaeology as Ideology: The Case of the Stein River Valley by Wendy Wickwire
BC Studies #91/92 (Autumn/Winter 1991), pgs: 51-78
- The Pivotal Role of the Northwest Coast in the History of Americanist Anthropology by Regna Darnell
- Fur Trade
- Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia by Cole Harris
BC Studies #115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism (Autumn/Winter 1997), pgs: 45-82 - Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria by Sylvia Van Kirk
BC Studies #115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism (Autumn/Winter 1997), pgs: 148-180 - Geographies of the Lower Skeena by Daniel Clayton
BC Studies #94, The Historical Geography of British Columbia (Summer 1992), pgs: 29-58 - The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858 by Richard Somerset Mackie
BC Studies #96 (Winter 1992), pgs: 3-40
- Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia by Cole Harris
- Law
- People in the Way: Modernity, Environment, and Society on the Arrow Lakes by Tina Loo
BC Studies #142/143, On the Environment (Summer/Autumn 2004), pgs: 161-96 - Honouring the Queen's Flag: A Legal and Historical Perspective on the Nisga'a Treaty by Hamar Foster
BC Studies #120, The Nisga'a Treaty (Winter 1998), pgs: 11-35 - Judging History: Reflections on Reasons for Judgment in Delgamuukw v. B.C. by Robin Fisher
BC Studies #95, Anthropology and History in the Courts (Autumn 1992), pgs: 43-54
- People in the Way: Modernity, Environment, and Society on the Arrow Lakes by Tina Loo
- Politics and Policy
- Unscrambling the Omelette: Understanding British Columbia's Agricultural Land Reserve by Christopher Garrish
BC Studies #136 (Winter 2002), pgs: 25-55 - "Shut the Province Down": First Nations Blockades in British Columbia, 1984-1995 by Nicholas Blomley
BC Studies #111 (Autumn 1996), pgs: 5-35 - "A Delicate Game": The Meaning of Law on Grouse Creek by Tina Loo
BC Studies #96 (Winter 1992), pgs: 41-65 - W.A.C. Bennett and Province-Building in British Columbia by Stephen Tomblin
BC Studies #85 (Spring 1990), pgs: 45-61
- Unscrambling the Omelette: Understanding British Columbia's Agricultural Land Reserve by Christopher Garrish
- Race and Identity
- Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver by Jean Barman
BC Studies #155 (Autumn 2007), pgs: 3-30 - Group Identity in an Emigrant Worker Community: The Example of Sikhs in early Twentieth-Century British Columbia by Hugh Johnston
BC Studies #148 (Winter 2005/06), pgs: 3-23 - The Janet Smith Bill of 1924 and the Language of Race and Nation in British Columbia by Scott Kerwin
BC Studies #121 (Spring 1999), pgs: 83-114 - The Lynching of Louie Sam by Keith Thor Carlson
BC Studies #109 (Spring 1996), pgs: 63-79
- Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver by Jean Barman
- Society
- Utopians and Utilitarians: Environment and Economy in the Finnish-Canadian Settlement of Sointula by Mikko Saikku
BC Studies #154 (Summer 2007), pgs: 3-38 - Interrupted Relations: The Adoption of Children in Twentieth-Century British Columbia by Veronica Strong-Boag
BC Studies #144, Being Young: Journeys to Young Adulthood (Winter 2004), pgs: 5-30 - "I Don't Really Like the Mill; In Fact, I Hate the Mill": Changing Youth Vocationalism Under Fordism and Post-Fordism in Powell River, British Columbia by Tanya Behrisch, Roger Hayter
BC Studies #136 (Winter 2002), pgs: 73-101 - He Thought He was the Boss of Everything: Masculinity and Power in a Vancouver Family by Robert A.J. McDonald
BC Studies #132 (Winter 2001), pgs: 5-30 - Old age in British Columbia: The Case of the "Lonesome Prospector" by Megan Davies
BC Studies #118, Work and Welfare in BC (Summer 1998), pgs: 41-66 - "Stout Ladies and Amazons": Women in the British Columbia Coal-Mining Community of Ladysmith, 1912-14 by John R. Hinde
BC Studies #114 (Summer 1997), pgs: 33-57 - Ladies and Escorts: Gender Segregation and Public Policy in British Columbia Beer Parlours, 1925-1945 by Robert A. Campbell
BC Studies #105/106, Women's History and Gender Studies (Spring/Summer 1995), pgs: 119-138 - Exclusion or Solidarity? Vancouver Workers Confront the "Oriental problem" by Gillian Creese
BC Studies #80 (Winter 1988), pgs: 24-51 - The Triumph of "Formalism": Elementary Schooling in Vancouver from the 1920s to the 1960s by Neil Sutherland
BC Studies #69/70 (Spring/Summer 1986), pgs: 175-210 - John Sullivan Deas: A Black Entrepreneur in British Columbia Salmon Canning by Keith Ralston
BC Studies #32, Personality & History in British Columbia: Essays in Honour of Margaret Ormsby (Winter 1976), pgs: 64-78
- Utopians and Utilitarians: Environment and Economy in the Finnish-Canadian Settlement of Sointula by Mikko Saikku
- Women and Gender
- "Being a Girl Without Being a Girl": Gender and Mountaineering on Mount Waddington, 1926-36 by Karen Routledge
BC Studies #141 (Spring 2004), pgs: 31-58 - Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz by Karen Duder
BC Studies #136 (Winter 2002), pgs: 3-24 - Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900 by Jean Barman
BC Studies #115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism (Autumn/Winter 1997), pgs: 237-66 - Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia by Michiko Midge Ayukawa
BC Studies #105/106, Women's History and Gender Studies (Spring/Summer 1995), pgs: 103-18
- "Being a Girl Without Being a Girl": Gender and Mountaineering on Mount Waddington, 1926-36 by Karen Routledge
