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Altering the Landscape of Our Memories: A Review of Indigenous Cities (Vancouver)
I came to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ as a child, not knowing her name, but knowing she had the strength to hold out sharp city noises and the tenderness to hold onto the shy wood duck. To me,...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 130-133
reflection
Book Review
A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia
A core rationale for this book series, Lara Campbell explains, is the necessity to “tell regional stories” about the women’s suffrage movement (13). Campbell demonstrates, for example, that the absence of a party system in...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 160-162
article
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Is the World Wonderful? On Judy Chartrand’s What a Wonderful World
Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World on view at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, BC, 19 October 2016 – 26 March 2017. Admittedly, I was confused about where the permanent collection...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 145-149
article
Book Review
Fool’s Gold: The Life and Legacy of Vancouver’s Official Town Fool
Once upon an acid-warped time, Vancouver had its own town fool. In the late sixties, a middle-aged family man, Kim Foikis, dressed in a red and blue jester’s outfit and led his donkeys, Peter and...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 219-221
Book Review
Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Most Canadians are aware of the existence of treaties between Indigenous peoples and the Crown. Phrases like “treaty rights” and “treaty relationships” form part of the everyday political vocabulary at every level of our federal...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 150-151
Book Review
Big Promises, Small Government: Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal New Era
George Abbott was a cabinet minister for twelve years in the BC Liberal governments of Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark. In Big Promises, Small Government, he reflects on his tenure in the first Campbell government...
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 120-122
Book Review
Book Review
At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada’s West Coast
In recent years, local opposition to the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in BC has confounded the plans of oil investors and federal officials alike. The government of Alberta has declared its right to...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 140-141
Book Review
Rain City: Vancouver Reflections
John Moore is a BC-based free-lance journalist and author. Original versions of the sixteen essays that make up this volume have appeared in a variety of newspapers and periodicals over several decades. Some have won...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 141-142
Book Review
Book Review
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On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 205-206
Book Review
The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in BC
This is one of those rare collections that focusses on a recent significant political transition. In doing so Jason Lacharite and Tracy Summerville have produced a needed and worthwhile book. For those not cognizant of recent...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 193-194
Book Review
Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
We all remember them. I know that I do. Having spent a summer in my youth washing dishes at Fort Steele heritage town, I remember the wooden boardwalks, the ramshackle buildings, the yellow school buses...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 172-5
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Book Review
A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
In February of 2011, I was the moderator for the BC Liberal Leadership candidates’ debate in Prince George, British Columbia. As the evening got underway I saw Christy Clark enter the room. She caught my...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 191-2
Book Review
The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
Book Review
Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917.
E.A Heaman has produced a decided masterpiece on a topic too often thought to be dry as a bone. Taxation, with its underlying legitimacy of consent, is the lifeblood of the state, supplying it with...