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Book Review

Fool’s Gold: The Life and Legacy of Vancouver’s Official Town Fool

Once upon an acid-warped time, Vancouver had its own town fool. In the late sixties, a middle-aged family man, Kim Foikis, dressed in a red and blue jester’s outfit and led his donkeys, Peter and...

Review by David Hazzan

article

Sink or Swim: Water Pollution and Environmental Politics in Vancouver, 1889-1975

By Arn Keeling

BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 69-101

environment pollution control public policy Vancouver

research note

The 2011 Vancouver Riot and the Role of Facebook in Crowd-Sourced Policing

By Christopher J. Schneider, Dan Trottier

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 57-72

facebook social media crime police and policing Vancouver

article

Domesticated Time and Restricted Space: University and Community Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

By Dara Culhane

BC Studies no. 140 Winter 2003-2004

education women Vancouver

article

Tainted Space: Representations of Injection Drug-Users and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

By Andrew Woolford

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 27-50

newspapers epidemics health Vancouver

article

“From Canvas to Concrete in Fifty Years,” The Construction of Vancouver City Hall, 1935-6

By David Monteyne

BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 41-68

city planning politics Vancouver

article

Circumscribing Vancouver Island

By Daniel Clayton

BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 7-22

Vancouver

article

Immigration and the Changing Social Geography of Greater Vancouver

By Daniel Hiebert

BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Page(s) 35-82

immigration demography geography Vancouver

article

“Vancouver’s First Playwright”: Constance Lindsay Skinner and The Birthright

By Jean Barman

BC Studies no. 137 Spring 2003 | Page(s) 47-62

literature theatre

article

“A Baby Show Means Work in the Hardest Sense”: The Better Baby Contests of the Vancouver and New Westminster Local Councils of Women, 1913-1929

By Gerald E. Thomson

BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 5-36

health women

research note

Research Note – Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)

By Alix Shield

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 107-121

publishing and publishers myths and stories

soundwork

Intertidal Room: A Soundwalk through Timescapes of Vancouver’s Coastline

By Jacek Smolicki

Intertidal Room Fragments 1

Intertidal Room Fragments 2

Intertidal Room Fragments 3

BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 101-106

new media environment human impact parks and reserves

review essay

Vancouver in Print
Station Normal: The Power of the Stave River
Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vamcouver's Newspaper Monopoly
Vancouver: Then and Now

Review by Unamed

BC Studies no. 133 Spring 2002 | Pages 103-5

review essay

The Unnatural History of Stanley Park Exhibit, Vancouver Museum

Review by Sean Kheraj

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 115-24

review essay

Vancouver in Slices
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
Vanishing Vancouver

Review by Graeme Wynn

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Pages 73-94

review essay

Representing Downtown Eastside Vancouver
The Door Is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer
Heroines

Review by Dara Culhane

BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Pages 109-113

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...

Review by John Belec

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...

Review by Janet Nicol

Book Review

Joseph William McKay: A Métis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia

In 2003, the Canadian Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of R. v. Powley, triggering significant new public interest in Métis identity and history outside of the familiar geography of the Canadian...

Review by Carla A. Osborne

reflection

OBITUARY: William McLennan, 4 October 1948–3 July 2020, Curator Emeritus, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver

By Anthony Alan Shelton

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 121-126

Museum of Anthropology (UBC) museums aboriginal art William (Bill) McLennan

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...

Review by Barry Gough

photo essay

Archaeology of an Early Twentieth-Century Nikkei Camp in the Seymour Valley

By Robert Muckle

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 125-148

archaeology logging housing japanese people Vancouver

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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,...

Review by Nicole Jung

BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 130-133

photo essay

Picturing Vancouver

By Graeme Wynn, Elvin Wyly

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 95-112

photography Vancouver

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