Index

A Reconciliation Without Recollection?

Unsettling Canada

The Reconciliation Manifesto

Review by Jim Reynolds

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Pages 131-133

Grand Trunk Pacific and the Establishment of the City of Prince George, 1911-1915

By Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 63 Autumn 1984 | Page(s) 29-54

railways Prince George

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

Kerry Mason begins The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts with a question: ‘Why haven’t I heard about this artist?’ (x) By the end of the book the reader is persuaded that we should indeed...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 174-5

“To Injure Its Own Interests”: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company and the Blighting of Hazelton District, 1910-1918

By Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 21-57

mining northern development railways

High Finance and Low Modernism: The Failure of the Wenner-Gren British Columbia Project, 1956–61

By Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 45-71

hydroelectric power railways Axel and corporation Bennett W. A. C. Wenner-Gren

Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family

Buckerfield tells the story of one of Vancouver’s most important business families. The story is structured around two narrative strands. One is the business history of the family patriarch, Edward Ernest Buckerfield, the New Brunswick-born...

Review by Robert A.J. McDonald

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 177-78

The Journey of a Ts’msyen Residential School Survivor: Resiliency, Healing, and Citizenship

By Kamala Elizabeth Nayar

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 63-89

residential schools assimilation Tsimshian ‘Liyaa’mlaxha (Leonard Alexcee)

Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose

Legends of Vancouver: 100th Anniversary Edition

Review by Carol Gerson

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Pages 158-60

Public Enterprise Pricing

By Leonard R. Roueche

BC Studies no. 33 Spring 1977 | Page(s) 30-39

economy government control

Native Spirituality, Past, Present and Future

By Leonard George

BC Studies no. 89 Spring 1991 | Page(s) 160-8

aboriginal people spirituality

“Reckoning with the Machine” : The British Columbia Social Credit Movement as Social Criticism, 1932-52

By Leonard B. Kuffert

BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 9-39

political parties politics Social Credit party

At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver, 1937-1998

The historical photography section of the Vancouver Public Library is one of Vancouver’s unexplored treasure troves. Among many other gems, it holds the prints and negatives produced by seven photographers under the auspices of a...

Review by Bill Jeffries

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 146-47

“So Much Bumph”: CPR Terminus Travails at Vancouver, 1884-89

By Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 7-38

railways Indian Reserves Port Moody Vancouver

Making Space in Vancouver’s East End from Leonard Marsh to the Vancouver Agreement

By Karen Bridget Murray

BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 7-49

Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains

Richard Mackie’s Mountain Timber is the second volume of a projected three-volume history of the Comox Logging and Railway Company’s operations on Vancouver Island. This volume begins c.1927 with the company’s expansion of its steam-powered...

Review by Christopher Hanna

BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 156-57

Surveying Central British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1920-28

In Surveying Central British Columbia, Jay Sherwood offers us the second instalment of the exploits of provincial surveyor Frank Swannell, who spent nine seasons creating and connecting a survey network in the Upper Nechako country...

Review by Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 131-132

Myra’s Men: Building the Kettle Valley Railway, Myra Canyon to Penticton

In August 2003, the Okanagan Mountain Park fire southeast of Kelowna destroyed or damaged the Myra Canyon trestles, eighteen railroad structures, and the roadbed between them. This 5.5-mile (8.9-km) elevated path around a mountainous amphitheatre...

Review by Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 200-1

The Vancouver Soundscape

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 24, Winter 1974/75

Review by Leonard Marsh

BC Studies no. 24 Winter 1974 | Page(s) 95-8

The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914

David Leonard’s latest work on the Peace River country of northern British Columbia and Alberta is distinguished from its predecessors by an emphasis on the region’s agricultural history. Drawn in part from documents profiling who...

Review by Jon Swainger

BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 111-2

The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 94, Summer 1992  

Review by Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 94 Summer 1992 | Page(s) 87-9

A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960

An early and still not inappropriate epithet for Vancouver is Terminal City. This epithet denotes not only a peripheral cultural as well as a geographical location but also the city’s potential for development, despite its...

Review by Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe

BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 117-20

Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia

Arv Olson’s second edition of Backspin expands readers’ acquaintance “with accounts of some of the people, places, and events” that shaped the 120 year history of golf in British Columbia (11). A journalist and golf...

Review by Elizabeth Jewett

BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 148-149