Index

A Cache of Aboriginal Fishing Gear from the Queen Charlotte Islands

By Philip M. Hobler

BC Studies no. 37 Spring 1978 | Page(s) 37-47

archaeology fishing industry Haida Queen Charlotte Islands

Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship

This precisely researched and engaging study enlarges our understanding of the archive by focusing on the decisions taken by or imposed on five Canadian women writers about the disposition of their papers or literary record....

Review by Patricia Demers

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 183-84

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

Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History

Self-conscious litanies of intellectual genealogy are common in volumes such as this. Although Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall have their own courses to chart, they are quick to acknowledge their debt to Jennifer...

Review by Scott P. Stephen

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 140-41

The Labyrinth of North American Identities

Much writing on early Canada has sought to explain why Canada is not the United States. The roots of the two countries are alleged to have been very different, and to explain different contemporary societies....

Review by Cole Harris

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 139-40

A Steady Lens: The True Story of Pioneer Photographer Mary Spencer

Sherril Foster’s A Steady Lens: The True Story of Pioneer Photographer Mary Spencer is a welcome contribution to and a reminder of how much work remains to be done on the history of art in...

Review by Carolyn MacHardy

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 149-50

Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History

Vancouver’s famous park has received a lot of attention, including from notable historians like Jean Barman and Robert A. J. McDonald, prominent artists like Emily Carr, and a continuous collection of journalists and tourism writers...

Review by Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73

The Two British Columbias

By Philip Resnick

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 21-25

Canadian Alliance Party elections political parties

The Colored Inhabitants of Vancouver Island

By Philip S. Foner

BC Studies no. 8 Winter 1970-1971 | Page(s) 29-33

Colony of Vancouver Island Black people

Neo-Conservatism on the Periphery: The Lessons from B.C.

By Philip Resnick

BC Studies no. 75 Autumn 1987 | Page(s) 3-23

politics Social Credit party Bennett W. A. C.

B.C. Capitalism and the Empire of the Pacific

By Philip Resnick

BC Studies no. 67 Autumn 1985 | Page(s) 28-46

forestry business trade and commerce international relations Japan

Social Democracy in Power: The Case of British Columbia

By Philip Resnick

BC Studies no. 34 Summer 1977 | Page(s) 3-20

government New Democratic Party socialism Barrett Dave

Archaeological Survey and Excavations in the Vicinity of Bella Coola

By Philip M. Hobler

BC Studies no. 6-7 Autumn 1970 | Page(s) 77-94

archaeology Aboriginal languages Bella Coola people

The Hankin Appointment, 1868

By Robert L. Smith

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | Page(s) 26-39

Colony of British Columbia Colony of Vancouver Island Hankin Philip

Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life

David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...

Review by Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247

A Cache of Aboriginal Fishing Gear from the Queen Charlotte Islands

By Philip M. Hobler

archaeology Haida fishing industry Queen Charlotte Islands

Long Beach Wild: A Celebration of People and Place on Canada’s Rugged Western Shore

Long Beach Wild is the kind of book that academics are often quick to dismiss. It’s popular history, after all (academics, of course, preferring unpopular histories), by a freelance writer whose many previous works include...

Review by Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 187-8

The Early Years of Ashcroft Manor

By Edward Philip Johnson

BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | Page(s) 43182

Colony of British Columbia gold rush agriculture Cornwall family

The Pender Canal Excavations and the Development of Coast Salish Culture

By Roy L. Carlson, Philip M. Hobler

BC Studies no. 99 Autumn 1993 | Page(s) 25-52

archaeology aboriginal people aboriginal culture Salish Pender Island

“Panic Park”: Environmental Protest and the Politics of Parks in British Columbia’s Skagit Valley

By Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 67-92

High Ross Dam parks and reserves Skagit New Democractic Party Social Credit party

The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery

Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors

Review by Alan D. McMillan

BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Pages 123-5

Alberni Prehistory: Archaeological and Ethnographic Investigations on Western Vancouver Island

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 64, Winter 1984

Review by Philip Hobler

BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 82-4

Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada

For anyone familiar with environmental history, Stephen J. Pyne is as synonymous with the word “fire” as is Smokey the Bear. As a former firefighter in the Grand Canyon, a renowned historian at Arizona State...

Review by Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 145-146

A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 84, Winter 1989/90  

Review by Philip Resnick

BC Studies no. 84 Winter 1989-1990 | Page(s) 103-5