Index

Below the Radar: An Engaged Knowledge Democracy

Below the Radar is a podcast that begins many episodes by reminding listeners that it is a knowledge democracy podcast.  A production of Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the podcast claims to...

Review by Brian Davenport

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BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 141-143

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

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BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 144-145

John Olmsted’s Uplands: “Victoria’s Celebrated Residential Park”

By Larry McCann

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BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 11-37

photography architecture city planning Uplands Victoria

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Chief Supernatural Being with the Big Eyes (2021)

Exploring the creative possibilities offered by augmented reality (AR) technology, Vancouver-based Haida artist Ernest Swanson has teamed up with the Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) and AR designer Mark Illing to present Chief Supernatural Being with...

Review by April Liu 

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BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 125-128

Nature, Order, and Chaos in John Davidson’s Archive

By David Brownstein, A. W. Rasporich

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BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 121-130

environment religion Davidson John

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RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action

Season one of the RAVEN (De)Briefs podcast series is a refreshing Indigenization of the traditional podcast format in that it evokes everyday kitchen table conversations among relatives, combined with sonic, Indigenous documentary. Exploring contemporary environmental...

Review by Lydia Toorenburgh

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BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 128-129

colonialism Delgamuukw v. BC Indigenous Indigenous rights treaties land claims law

The Bomb in the Wilderness: Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada

John O’Brian’s recent book on the photographic representation of the nuclear age focuses on the Canadian context and readers with an interest in photography, atomic age culture, and Canadiana will not be disappointed. The Bomb...

Review by Karla McManus

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BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 163-164

Quietly Shrinking Cities: Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth

Growth is good and small is beautiful. These two mid-twentieth century mottos continue to influence thinking about cities. On balance, Queen’s University geographer Maxwell Hartt would say that the former continues to hold sway more...

Review by John Douglas Belshaw

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BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 164-166

Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge

  A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in English and Kwak’wala, opens The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, an exhibition on view...

Review by Christopher T. Green

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BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139

Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt

Capitals, Aristocrats, and Cougars: Victoria’s Hockey Professionals, 1911-26

Historians generally agree that hockey originated in eastern parts of Canada and later spread westward. In large part, this western migration of the sport followed the pattern of demographic movements. It is then not surprising...

Review by John Wong

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BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 218-219

Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw

In 2013 the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition brought together three argillite platters made in the late 1880s by Da.a. xiigang, Charles Edenshaw – one from the Field Museum in Chicago, one from the...

Review by Martha Black

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BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 142-145

Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923

When the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report in 2015 it drew attention to the importance of treaty making in the history of Crown-Indigenous relations in Canada. Treaty making, the...

Review by Carole Blackburn

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BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 136-137

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...

Review by John Belec

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BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 141-142