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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
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Book Review
Deadly Neighbours: A Tale of Colonialism, Cattle Feuds, Murder and Vigilantes in the Far West
Deadly Neighbours opens a window into the relationship between immigrant settlers and the Sema:th (Sumas) and Sto:lo people residing in British Columbia’s Sumas Prairie and Nooksack Valley during the 1870s and 1880s. Several conflicts are...
review essay
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental History and the Forests of the North American West 
Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913
Vanishing Halo: Saving the Boreal Forest
Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Pages 93-104
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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...
research note
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Intertidal Room: A Soundwalk through Timescapes of Vancouver’s Coastline
Intertidal Room Fragments 1
Intertidal Room Fragments 2
Intertidal Room Fragments 3
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 101-106
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...
reflection
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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...
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
Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art and the Seriousness of Play
Celebrated contemporary Haida artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has produced a diverse body of work ranging from ink drawings to large scale mixed media sculptures to totem poles. The artist is best known for inventing a...
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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...
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...