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Celebrating the Indigenous-Filipino Community on Bainbridge Island and the Indigenous Women Who Brought it into Being: A Review of Honor Thy Mother
The field of Indigenous studies is being called on with urgency to listen to, center, and amplify the voices and experiences of multiracial, multiethnic Indigenous community members beyond whiteness, especially the important voices and experiences...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 125-129
Book Review
By Law or In Justice
The foundation of Professor Jane Dickson’s book, By Law Or in Justice, is her work as a Commissioner for the Indian Specific Claims Commission, from 2002 to 2009. The Commission itself endured from 1991 to...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 218-219
Book Review
Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Writing the Body in Motion, edited by BC writers and literary scholars Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, is an introduction and literary companion for readers wishing to delve into Canadian sports literature. The book is...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 147-148
Book Review
Mapping my Way Home: A Gitxsan History
British Columbians may be familiar with the landmark Delgamuukw case (Supreme Ct. of Canada, 1997), which established that testimony on based upon traditional knowledge and oral history is valid evidence. But most are limited in...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 179-180
Book Review
Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation
Rarely does a book cover depict a Canadian athlete with claims to a major role in academic life and advocacy politics, but this is no ordinary cover. The front of Playing for Change depicts young Bruce Kidd,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 238-239
Book Review
Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Past
A student in search of a thesis topic or a scholar seeking to understand the shape of historical writing in New Zealand over the past fifty years need go no further. In this collection of...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 153-155
Book Review
Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism
Indigenous Women and Work, edited by Carol Williams, consists of seventeen essays that examine the history of indigenous women and wage labour in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The object of these...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 146-147
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The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The Dunsmuir Years: 1884-1905
Originally, Robert Dunsmuir, the founder of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N), had intended the southern terminus to be Esquimalt and the northern terminus to be Nanaimo, as the name suggests, but before he had...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 178-179
Book Review
I Just Ran: Percy Williams, World’s Fastest Human
A feature attraction at the 2012 London Olympics will be Jamaican Usain Bolt’s attempt to repeat his feat from four years ago in Beijing of winning gold medals in both the men’s 100m and 200m...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 176-7
Book Review
Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century
In Nature’s Northwest, William G. Robbins and Katrine Barber have synthesized a wealth of scholarship on the Greater Northwest, encompassing Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana, and southern British Columbia. The authors track social, economic, political,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 124-26
Book Review
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,...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 165-6
Book Review
The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
For this fourth volume in his series on the Literary History of British Columbia, Alan Twigg has set himself the impossible task of selecting 150 “Great B.C. Books and Authors,” designated as...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 166-68
Book Review
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and other stories from Desolation Sound
This is a book of stories, mostly frothy, engaging, and well told. It’s also a sort of not-quite postmodern coming-of-age tale that is much enhanced by Grant Lawrence’s mixing of his own stories with those...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 158-59
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The Law of the Land: The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
In recent years both imperial historians and colonial legal historians have begun turning their attention to the networks at play within the British Empire and the transmission of information and ideas within the imperial system.[1]...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 143-5
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States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
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Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Australia is one of the few countries of the world where academics and politicians often debate interpretations of their country’s history in the national media. They focus on the story of Aborigine-settler relations. Even the...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
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Murder in the Monashees: A Mystery
Russell Montgomery, an office worker from Vancouver, has come to the Monashee Mountains for one week in the hope of shooting a mule deer stag. Through his scope, he fixes a buck, seventy-five yards away....
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 134-6
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Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
THE POPULARITY OF WILDLIFE, as idea and as icon, is near universal, but the presence ofwildlife in our yards, homes, and neighbourhoods provokes reactions as diverse as the species that we encounter and the places...