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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Virtual Museum
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley (Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre and Stó:lō Nation, 2016) is a virtual museum in the form of a website that reflects a collaborative...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 195-197
research note
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Uninterrupted
Editorial note: Uninterrupted is reviewed here following its role as inspiration for a nightly ‘cinematic spectacle’ on Vancouver’s Cambie Street Bridge during the summer of 2017 (see uninterrupted.ca). Uninterrupted, a film about a very special...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 198-9
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
When the City Sleeps, We Dream of Disruption: A Review of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions Exhibition
Lisa Jackson’s exhibition entitled Transmissions premiered at the Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus from 6–28 September 2019. This new body of work weaves interdisciplinary themes regarding society, nature, Indigenous languages, and ecological futures. Lisa Jackson is Anishinaabe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 103-107
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
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...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 125-128
Book Review
The Wagon Road: The Saga of the Cariboo Gold Rush, Revised and Expanded Edition
As Ken Mather reminds us in the preface to this revised and expanded edition of Wagon Road North, it is for a good reason that Art Down’s book has remained probably the single most popular...
research note
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Screen Sovereignty: Indigenous Matriarch 4 Articulating the Future of Indigenous VR
Indigenous matriarchs are changing the culture of the technology industry through virtual reality (VR). Indigenous Matriarch 4 (IM4) is the first Indigenous virtual reality media lab and is situated on the West Coast. Currently, it...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 141-146
Book Review
Sisters of the Ice: The True Story of How St. Roch and North Star of Herschel Island Protected Canadian Arctic Sovereignty
The polar north continues to have an enduring fascination for geopoliticians, tourists and mariners. Readers of history and other disciplines attracted to this subject abound. The navigation and search for a Northwest Passage is one...
Book Review
Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park
Coast Salish Indigenous people never ceded their lands and resources to settlers and have always asserted their sovereignty. Over time, those assertions have taken various forms: petitions, protests, litigation. There have also been cultural assertions...
article
Book Review
Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History
As I write, the world has received news that Talequah (or J35), the Southern Resident killer whale who carried her dead newborn for two weeks in 2018, is pregnant again. Spirits of the Coast: Orcas...
BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 143-144
Book Review
Book Review
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...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 136-137
Book Review
Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River
This book purports to represent a ‘New Ethnohistory’ as community-engaged research in First Nations communities. It consists primarily of essays written by graduate students who participated in the Ethnohistory Field School run since 1997 by...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 137-138
Book Review
Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide: The Alberta-BC Boundary Survey, 1918-1924
In this, his ninth monograph on surveying in BC, Jay Sherwood returns with the second of two volumes on the work of the Alberta-BC Boundary Survey in the early twentieth century. The first installment, Surveying...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 124-125
article
Book Review
Voices from the Skeena: An Illustrated Oral History
Many familiar with Imbert Orchard’s CBC radio interviews from the 1960s will welcome this publication of transcriptions of oral interviews relating to the history of the Skeena River together with forty illustrations executed by the...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 123-124
Book Review
This Was Our Valley
The 2019 edition of This Was Our Valley by Shirlee Smith Matheson and Earl K. Pollon continues a longstanding conversation about the impacts of large dams in northern British Columbia. This story, told in three acts,...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 121-122
Book Review
Outside In: A Political Memoir
Outside In can be read and enjoyed as a straightforward memoir of Libby Davies’ remarkable career as an activist and elected official. It traces her path from her early days working for housing justice in Vancouver’s...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 117-118
Book Review
Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Focusing on the “trente glorieuses” period, Tina Loo’s study of how the Canadian welfare-state pursued its promise of universality gives us an in-depth look at five communities: namely Inuit villages in the district of Keewatin...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 110-111
Book Review
Book Review