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Book Review
A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia
A core rationale for this book series, Lara Campbell explains, is the necessity to “tell regional stories” about the women’s suffrage movement (13). Campbell demonstrates, for example, that the absence of a party system in...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 160-162
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond (Season 1 and 2)
In 2018 and 2019, Sierra Club BC, through the leadership of Caitlyn Vernon and former CBC host and broadcaster, Susan Elrington, released an episodic educational podcast resource called Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond. This...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 207-208
Book Review
A Liberal-Labour Lady: The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
Biographies offer such tantalizing opportunities. Readers can generally look forward to either delving into the details of a fascinating life – the accomplishments and setbacks, the loves and losses – or they can be encouraged...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 158-160
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Porcupine Podcast
“How do porcupines hug?” Merrell-Anne Phare asks. “Carefully,” Michael Miltenberger responds. This old joke is the disarming beginning to every episode of Porcupine, a podcast hosted by political consultant Michael Miltenberger and lawyer Merrell-Ann Phare....
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 146-148
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
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...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 144-145
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Altering the Landscape of Our Memories: A Review of Indigenous Cities (Vancouver)
I came to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ as a child, not knowing her name, but knowing she had the strength to hold out sharp city noises and the tenderness to hold onto the shy wood duck. To me,...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 130-133
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Book Review
Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley
Eugene Thornton Kingsley, an influential socialist in early British Columbia, was 33 years old when he adopted his revolutionary stance. Employed as a brakeman on a railway in rural Montana in 1890, he fell between...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 212-214
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Now Is the Time
In the extraordinary short film Now Is the Time, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter brings to the screen a moving story of renewal through the restoration and re-editing of footage from the National Film Board of...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 130-131
museums repatriation aboriginal self government colonialism settler colonialism aboriginal art aboriginal rights Haida Indigenous worlds
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Crackdown
British Columbia is in year four of a provincial public health emergency declared in response to devastating rates of drug overdose deaths resulting from a toxic, illicit drug supply. As of July 2020, COVID-19 had...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 127-128
epidemics liquor and drugs mental health social services substance use government law public policy
Book Review
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...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 218-219
Book Review
Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Most Canadians are aware of the existence of treaties between Indigenous peoples and the Crown. Phrases like “treaty rights” and “treaty relationships” form part of the everyday political vocabulary at every level of our federal...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 150-151
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Book Review
Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Marion McKinnon Crook’s Always Pack a Candle is an enlightening memoir of public health nursing in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of British Columbia in the early 1960s. Crook’s experience as a neophyte public health nurse armed...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 222-224
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights
On the closing day of the Museum of Anthropology’s Unceded Territories exhibit of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s art, crowds formed queues long enough to snake through the halls and to pack the exhibit space for the...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 187-192
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Book Review
The Object’s the Thing: The Writings of Yorke Edwards, a Pioneer of Heritage Interpretation in Canada
When we visit a nature park or a museum, do we consider how interpretation contributed to our experience? For Yorke Edwards, “the father of nature interpretation in Canada,” interpreting the object is “the thing.” As...