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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

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

The Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

Review by Christon I. Archer

BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 43-61

Book Review

The York Factory Express: Fort Vancouver to Hudson Bay, 1826-1849

The York Factory Express was an integral part of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trans-continental trade network in the nineteenth century.  It carried men and mail from the Pacific coast to Hudson Bay, linking the Columbia...

Review by Scott P. Stephen

research note

The Vancouver Island Project: Research, Resources, and Regional Studies

By Alan F.J. Artibise, Peter A. Baskerville, Chad M. Gaffield

BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | Page(s) 116-119

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

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

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

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

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

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

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 144-145

Book Review

For Freedom We Will Fight, the Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia 1905-1990

More than a hundred years after losing its prominence, the fabled Industrial Workers of the World continues to resonate as a union without parallel in the annals of labour history in North America. Besides the...

Review by Rod Mickleburgh

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

article

“A Fusillade of Shots in the Quiet Neighbourhood”: The 1967 Vancouver Mass Shooting and Gun Control in the Late 1960s

By R. Blake Brown and Rudy Bartlett

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 35-60

mental health crime police and policing weapons and munitions

Book Review

Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983

This is a book in search of a genre. As history, the curtain comes down on this story after a disappointing first night. But as theatre, it would undoubtedly have a longer and more satisfying...

Review by Bryan D. Palmer

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

article

Situating Direct-Action AIDS Activists: The Development of Organizational Responses to Vancouver’s HIV Epidemic

By Benjamin Klassen

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 61-86

protest epidemics LGBT[Q+] sexuality

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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this space here

Black Lives Matter Vancouver Calls on the City to Dismantle Systems of Violence and Oppression

By Black Lives Matter Vancouver

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 7-10

letters and letter writing race and racism Black people police and policing

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...

Review by April Liu 

BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 125-128

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

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 152-153

photo essay

Evidence of an Ephemeral Art: Cantonese Opera in Vancouver’s Chinatown

By Elizabeth Lominska Johnson

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 55-91

music theatre chinese Vancouver

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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...

Review by Kendra Milne

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 127-128

epidemics liquor and drugs mental health social services substance use government law public policy

reflection

Anniversary Issue Reflections – Community Engagement – The Harms of Drug Prohibition: Ongoing Resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

By Susan Boyd, Donald MacPherson, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 87-96

liquor and drugs social services public policy Vancouver