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Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914
This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140
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Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
The cover and larger format pages of this handsomely produced book are drear images of demolition in the older inner suburbs of Vancouver. An array are pictured on the back cover rather in the manner...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 157-160
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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
This substantial collection brings interdisciplinary approaches to a range of questions on Aboriginal populations. Aiming to bring about a “comprehensive understanding of the social demographic transformation of the Canadian Aboriginal population” (ix), the contributors review...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149
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Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight
Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976), a native of Nanaimo, began his career in uniform as a teenager with the Canadian Fisheries Protection Service. In 1915 Collishaw volunteered for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). He qualified as...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 206-208
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Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror
In Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, Daniel Francis provides an overview of the response of the Canadian state and elite to the postwar labour revolt. Although written for...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 126-28
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The Third Crop: A Personal and Historical Journey into the Photo Albums and Shoeboxes of the Slocan Valley, 1800s to early 1940s
The Slocan Valley is quirky and isolated, and its past can be told in many ways. The valley has been a site of conflict between capital and labour on an industrial mining frontier, a haven for...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 151
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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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Svoboda
Bill Stenson’s Svoboda is a coming-of-age novel set in the West Kootenay during the 1950s. Vasili Saprikin is a Doukhobor who spends most of his earliest years with his mother (a widow) and grandfather in...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 143-4
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Imperial Russia in Frontier America: the Changing Geography of Supply of Russian America, 1784-1867
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 34, Summer 1977
BC Studies no. 34 Summer 1977 | Page(s) 64-6
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When Russia was in America
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 12, Winter 1971
BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972 | Page(s) 86-8
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Russia in Pacific Waters: A Survey of the Origins of Russia’s Naval Presence in the North and South Pacific
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 54, Summer 1982
BC Studies no. 54 Summer 1982 | Page(s) 113-5
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Russia’s American Colony
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 82, Summer 1989
BC Studies no. 82 Summer 1989 | Page(s) 70-2
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Atlas of Pacific Salmon
Journalist Timothy Egan once wrote that the Pacific Northwest “is wherever the salmon can get to.” As woefully provincial as he was, Egan unwittingly revealed the absence of an alternative way to regionalize the seven...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 116-8
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Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
In Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse) Julie Rak refers to Doukhobors as “bad subjects,” drawing on a concept formulated by Louis Althusser to describe a people who “resist the institutions, laws, and beliefs that would make...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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From the Baltic to Russian America, 1829-1836
ALIX O’GRADY’S From the Baltic to Russian America, 1829-1836 should be of interest to BC historians concerned with the broader aspects of the Pacific Slopes fur trade in general and of Russian colonial history in particular. O’Grady,...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 207-8
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The First Russian Voyage Around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern (1803-1806)
THE RUSSIAN VOYAGE around the world (1803-06) recounted in this journal by the fourth officer and cartographer of the expedition’s flagship, the Nadezhda (Hope), is noteworthy on several counts. It was the country’s maiden circumnavigation...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 137-8
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Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867
In this important book, Ilya Vinkovetsky of Simon Fraser University places the story of Russia’s American experiment fully within the history of colonialism. Russian America was a unique colonial adventure, he argues, in which the...