Index

The Minor Transpacific: A Roundtable Discussion

By Phanuel Antwi, Nadine Attewell, Beng Huat Chua, John Nguyet Erni, Christine Kim, Joanne Leow, Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Jia Tan, Chih-ming Wang, Audrey Yue

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 13-26

A Canadian Jew in Berlin

By Helen Mintz

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 125-129

Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West

In Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West, editor Jim Ellis has assembled scholarly writing, insightful commentary, and engaging visual imagery to better understand the myriad human connections to water in Alberta. Though geographically focused in...

Review by Zander Albertson

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 154-156

What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools.

The impetus for What We Learned, a collaborative book written by Helen Raptis and twelve members of the Tsimshian Nation, was Raptis’s archival discovery of a 1947 class list from the Port Essington Indian Day...

Review by Sean Carleton

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 217-218

A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist

On the surface, Alicia Priest’s memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist is a well-researched and well-written account of Gerald H. Priest’s attempt to steal silver ore...

Review by Katharine Rollwagen

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 168-170

A Sense of Place: Art at Vancouver International Airport

In 1958, during the post-war building boom, the federal government decided to devote one per cent of airport construction costs to artwork. Within a few years the facades and foyers of airports from Gander, Newfoundland,...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 156-157

The Evolution of Early Hospitals in British Columbia, 1855–1918

By Helen Vandenberg and Geertje Boschma

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 73-118

missionaries cities and towns health hospitals

Denying Indigenous Education: Examples from Wei Wai Kum (Campbell River) and We Wei Kai (Cape Mudge)

By Kate Dubensky and Helen Raptis

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 13-34

education schooling aboriginal people public policy Campbell River Quadra Island

Denying Indigenous Education in British Columbia: Examples from Wei Wai Kum (Campbell River) and We Wei Kai (Cape Mudge)

By Kate Dubensky and Helen Raptis

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 13-34

education schooling aboriginal people public policy Campbell River Quadra Island

The Last Flight of Norseman CF-AXE

By Helen Nordwall

BC Studies no. 2 Summer 1969 | Page(s) 45-60

transportation law Nordwall Helen

Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries

  Thrown, British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries has its origins in an exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia. Although every item in the 2004...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 142-43

The Library Book: a History of Service to British Columbia

Accepting the challenge to produce, within a fixed deadline, a comprehensive overview of the evolution of libraries in British Columbia must have been daunting. Works of this sort are most often destined to grow old,...

Review by Tom Shorthouse

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 165-6

Excavations at Helen Point on Mayne Island

By Roy L. Carlson

BC Studies no. 6-7 Autumn 1970 | Page(s) 113-125

archaeology Mayne Island

Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered

Helen Piddington’s Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered is a collection of 117 brief reminiscences of the author’s childhood on southern Vancouver Island during the Depression and World War Two. Born in 1931, Piddington was...

Review by Christopher Hanna

BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 152-53

The Private Journal of Captain G. H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862)

Captain (later Admiral Sir) George Henry Richards, Royal Navy, is one of the great personages of that unique era in modern history known as Pax Britannica – a period when “Britain Ruled the Waves,” and sometimes, as...

Review by Barry Gough

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 119-23

The Quadra Story: A History of Quadra Island

Jeanette Taylor’s history of Quadra Island is a welcome addition to Harbour Publishing’s growing collection of Coast histories. It draws on Taylor’s profound local knowledge of the northern strait and complements her histories of Campbell...

Review by Howard Stewart

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 186-187

Gender and Space: Constructing the Public School Teaching Staff in Nanaimo, 1891-1914

By Helen Brown

BC Studies no. 105-106 Spring-Summer 1995 | Page(s) 59-79

teachers employment Identities Sexuality women Nanaimo

Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place

In the two generations since the first postmodern attempts to create a pan-cultural literature of place on the Pacific Coast, the context of landscape writing in British Columbia has been radically transformed. The environmental movement...

Review by Harold Rhenisch

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 210-12

One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests

One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...

Review by Chris Clarkson

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30

Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, and Letters

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 82, Summer 1989  

Review by Helen Hoy

BC Studies no. 82 Summer 1989 | Page(s) 78-80