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Book Review

In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island

In Nature’s Realm, a third tome from Michael Layland that focuses on the (mostly) colonial histories of Vancouver Island, is an artistic and literary achievement. Layland’s hybrid of chronological and thematic descriptions of Vancouver Island-related...

Review by Nicholas Stanger

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 145-147

Book Review

John Scouler (c.1804-1871) Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages

Less celebrated than his friend David Douglas, John Scouler was nevertheless an important scientific traveller to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Nootka Sound, Haida Gwaii, and Observatory Inlet in 1825. Although Douglas has been...

Review by Ted Binnema

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 159-160

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“Glistening Patches of Gold”: The Environmental History of Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) on Southern Vancouver Island, 1848-1950

By Troy V. Lee

BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 39-54

botany Scotch broom Vancouver Island

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‘Victoria’s Own Oak Tree’: A Brief Cultural History of Victoria’s Garry Oaks After 1843

By Matt Cavers

BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 63-85

botany conservation Garry Oaks Victoria

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Plants, Places, and the Storied Landscape: Looking at First Nations Perspectives on Plants and Land

By Leslie Main Johnson

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 85-105

Aboriginal languages topography Gitskan Wet'suwet'en botany

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Plants in Language and Classification among BC First Nations

By Nancy J. Turner, Carla Burton, Jan van Eijk

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 135-158

Aboriginal languages ethnobotany botany

Book Review

From Hudson Bay to Botany Bay: The Lost Frigates of Laperouse

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 79, Autumn 1998

Review by John Kendrick

BC Studies no. 79 Autumn 1988 | Page(s) 81-2