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article

Circumscribing Vancouver Island

By Daniel Clayton

BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 7-22

Vancouver

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...

Review by David Hazzan

Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review

Below the Radar: Age of Engagement

Below the Radar is the voice of Simon Fraser University’s community engagement initiative. The host, Am Johal, has been a fixture in Vancouver public affairs for several decades. He is currently Director of SFU’s Vancity...

Review by John Belec

article

“From Canvas to Concrete in Fifty Years,” The Construction of Vancouver City Hall, 1935-6

By David Monteyne

BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 41-68

city planning politics Vancouver

research note

The 2011 Vancouver Riot and the Role of Facebook in Crowd-Sourced Policing

By Christopher J. Schneider, Dan Trottier

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 57-72

facebook social media crime police and policing Vancouver

article

Immigration and the Changing Social Geography of Greater Vancouver

By Daniel Hiebert

BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Page(s) 35-82

immigration demography geography Vancouver

article

Tainted Space: Representations of Injection Drug-Users and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

By Andrew Woolford

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 27-50

newspapers epidemics health Vancouver

article

Domesticated Time and Restricted Space: University and Community Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

By Dara Culhane

BC Studies no. 140 Winter 2003-2004

education women Vancouver

article

Sink or Swim: Water Pollution and Environmental Politics in Vancouver, 1889-1975

By Arn Keeling

BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 69-101

environment pollution control public policy Vancouver

research note

Arrested Development: The Saga of a “Sustainable” Planned Village on Salt Spring Island, 1985–2016

By J.I. Little

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 101-119

housing real estate urbanization Gulf Islands

article

CMT Archaeology in British Columbia: The Meares Island Studies

By Arnoud H. Stryd, Morle Eldridge

BC Studies no. 99 Autumn 1993 | Page(s) 184-234

archaeology Nuu-Chah-Nulth

research note

The Murakami Women of Saltspring Island

By Brian Smallshaw

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 183-204

Japanese Canadian internment agriculture Gulf Islands

soundwork

Intertidal Room: A Soundwalk through Timescapes of Vancouver’s Coastline

By Jacek Smolicki

Intertidal Room Fragments 1

Intertidal Room Fragments 2

Intertidal Room Fragments 3

BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 101-106

new media environment human impact parks and reserves

review essay

Vancouver in Print
Station Normal: The Power of the Stave River
Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vamcouver's Newspaper Monopoly
Vancouver: Then and Now

Review by Unamed

BC Studies no. 133 Spring 2002 | Pages 103-5

review essay

The Unnatural History of Stanley Park Exhibit, Vancouver Museum

Review by Sean Kheraj

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 115-24

review essay

Vancouver in Slices
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
Vanishing Vancouver

Review by Graeme Wynn

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Pages 73-94

review essay

Representing Downtown Eastside Vancouver
The Door Is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer
Heroines

Review by Dara Culhane

BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Pages 109-113

article

“A Baby Show Means Work in the Hardest Sense”: The Better Baby Contests of the Vancouver and New Westminster Local Councils of Women, 1913-1929

By Gerald E. Thomson

BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 5-36

health women

research note

Research Note – Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)

By Alix Shield

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 107-121

publishing and publishers myths and stories

article

“Vancouver’s First Playwright”: Constance Lindsay Skinner and The Birthright

By Jean Barman

BC Studies no. 137 Spring 2003 | Page(s) 47-62

literature theatre

Book Review

Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

Eugene Thornton Kingsley, an influential socialist in early British Columbia, was 33 years old when he adopted his revolutionary stance.  Employed as a brakeman on a railway in rural Montana in 1890, he fell between...

Review by Janet Nicol

Book Review

Joseph William McKay: A Métis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia

In 2003, the Canadian Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of R. v. Powley, triggering significant new public interest in Métis identity and history outside of the familiar geography of the Canadian...

Review by Carla A. Osborne

research note

More letters of Edmund Verney

By Allan Pritchard

Colony of Vancouver Island Verney Edmund Hope

article

United States v. Tom and A New Perspective on the Short History of Treaty Making in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia

By Hamar Foster and Allan Grove

BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 51-84

Colony of Vancouver Island treaties aboriginal people Pacific Northwest