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Resolve: The Story of the Chelsea Family and a First Nation Community’s Will to Heal
The remains of residential schools are scattered throughout Canada. Indeed, there are only three provinces (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland) that did not house residential schools. There is not an Indigenous community, family,...
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Step Into Wilderness: A Pictorial History of Outdoor Exploration in and Around the Comox Valley
Drawing primarily on a photographic collection held by the Courtenay and District Museum, Step into Wilderness considers “the theme of people living in the natural world and exploring both the opportunities it provides and the...
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Apples, etc. An Artist’s Memoir
Apples, etc. An Artist’s Memoir by Gathie Falk, edited by Robin Laurence, is an account of the acclaimed Vancouver-based artist’s life that offers new insight into her tenacious experimentation with the ordinary. Like a grocery list...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 163-165
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A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
If this is a queer love story between Jane Rule, the legendary lesbian novelist of Galiano Island, and Rick Bébout, a long-time collective member of The Body Politic in Toronto, it should really be considered a...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 162-163
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Liberal Hearts and Coronets: The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens
Veronica Strong-Boag announces at the outset of her latest book that “Lords and ladies are rarely in fashion for critical scholars or democratic activists. This is unfortunate” (3). Thankfully she decided to take on Ishbel...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 140-141
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Three Athapaskan Ethnographies: Diamond Jenness on the Sekani, Tsuu T’ina and Wet’suwet’en, 1921-1924
Diamond Jenness was a diligent and talented ethnographer, and the years 1921-1924 were particularly productive. In the summer of 1921 he visited the Sarcee (Suuu T’ina) of Alberta and wrote a report based on “field-notes...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 139-141
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Names on a Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World War I
Sylvia Crooks’s Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II (2005) brought to life the lives of all the men honoured on the Nelson cenotaph and the impact of the war on their families...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 169-171
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From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War
In his portrait of Victoria High School (VHS), Barry Gough has created a vivid microcosm of the First World War’s impact on Canadians. As one of Canada’s foremost historians, Gough brings a special authenticity to...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 128-30
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The Grande Dames of the Cariboo
Far too little is known about artistic activity in the interior of British Columbia — past and present alike. Julie Fowler seeks to fill this lacuna by examining the lives of two mother-and-daughter artists: Vivien...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 222-23
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Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians
The biographies in Deadlines died between 2001 and 2011, had sufficient importance or interest to be have their obituaries published in the Toronto Globe and Mail or be considered for it, and had at least...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 172-73
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The Inverted Pyramid
In 2011, the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia celebrated Vancouver’s 125th anniversary with the Vancouver Legacy Book Collection, reissuing ten books that it deemed best representative of British Columbia’s social and literary history....
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 232-234
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Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
In the second chapter of her powerful book, Mona Oikawa indicts the critical reception of well-known Japanese-Canadian representations of Internment. Readings of Muriel Kitagawa’s This is My Own, for example, have tended to “exceptionalize” it...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 237-238
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Liquor, Lust and The Law: The Story of Vancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
Up to now, local venue histories have not been in great supply. Should they become a trend among British Columbia historians, Aaron Chapman’s Liquor, Lust and the Law may be seen as a pioneering effort....
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 193-194
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Campbell River: Gateway to the Inside Passage, Including Strathcona, the Discovery Islands and the Mainland Inlets
Campbell River, Gateway to the Inside Passage offers a fresh look at the Campbell River area, mainly seen through the lens of Boomer Jerritt, whose striking images comprise a large portion of the book. The...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 157-58
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Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World
This book is like an open house for all benevolent and family associations to Victoria’s Chinatown, the oldest in Canada. The reader is introduced to each society and its purpose, through many photographs, some never...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 157-158
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Greenscapes: Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest
This book is about John Charles Olmsted, the nephew cum stepson of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., the renowned landscape architect of New York’s Central Park. The senior Olmsted created an urban plan for Tacoma in...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 147-148
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I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter
About a decade ago, I wrote a review article in this journal in which I expressed the hope that more first-hand accounts of growing up Japanese or Chinese in British Columbia would be published [1]....
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 134-135
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Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London’s Sea Wolf
Anyone who has delved into the gripping, sometimes impregnable, but always complex world of pelagic fur sealing on the north Pacific Coast knows just what a challenge the history of that subject poses. Then, to...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 108-9
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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
REGULATING LIVES adds to a rapidly growing body of work in Canadian legal history and in the history of moral regulation. The collection should be of great interest to historians of the family, gender, race...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 203-4
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Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia
Recently the CBC program Ideas aired “Canadian Clearances,” a documentary about the impacts of globalization in rural Canada.1 What has come to epitomize the political activism of rural and remote communities is the depth of...