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Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
Tamara Starblanket is a Nehiyaw (Cree) legal scholar from Ahthakakoop First Nation and is currently the Dean of Academics at the Native Education College in Vancouver, which is located on the traditional territories of the...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 214-216
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The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
The past decade has witnessed a surge in Vancouver criminal and nocturnal history, from Daniel Francis’s Red Light Neon (2006) to Diane Purvey and John Belshaw’s Vancouver Noir (2011) and Belshaw’s edited collection Vancouver Confidential...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 179-181
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The Queen of the North Disaster, The Captain’s Story
As one might expect from a competent and conscientious career mariner, Colin Henthorne’s account of the sinking of the Queen of the North on March 22, 2006, a little south of Prince Rupert on British...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 182-4
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Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border
Bradley Miller, an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia, has produced an unprecedented look at the patchwork development of the law as it pertains to the Canada-U.S. border over the course...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 196-7
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Death in the Peaceable Kingdom: Canadian History since 1867 Through Murder, Execution, Assassination and Suicide
Two decades ago, a prominent conservative academic smacked down Canadian university instructors with the provocatively-titled Who Killed Canadian History? J.L. Granatstein’s answer was, in part, social history and the historians who taught it. Social historian...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 148-149
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A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist
On the surface, Alicia Priest’s memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist is a well-researched and well-written account of Gerald H. Priest’s attempt to steal silver ore...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 168-170
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volumes 1-6
A portion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) mandate laid out in Schedule N to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement [IRSSA] of 2006 said that the Commission was to “Produce and submit to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 169-175
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Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
Eve Lazarus’s fascination with Vancouver’s history continues with her latest book, Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders. Crime buffs and readers interested in true crime literature or in understanding how police investigate...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 171-173
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Vancouver Blue: A Life Against Crime
Wayne Cope joined the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in 1975, the fulfillment of a childhood dream to be a police officer. Like most police memoirs, Cope’s is filled with anecdotal stories, some humorous and some...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 184-85
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
During his round-the-world voyage in 1842, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Governor George Simpson arrived at Fort Stikine and discovered that chief trader John McLoughlin Jr. had been killed. Two recent books discuss this event....
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 154-155
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes
Tom Swanky’s self-published book A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes brings into sharp focus the problems faced by historians steeped in a discipline that does not fully appreciate the culturally constructed limitations...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 117-18
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Vancouver Confidential
John Belshaw undertook the task of publishing a series of fifteen essays on Vancouver written by artists, journalists, and writers. There is no specific thesis in this collection, and no attempt to convey a specific...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 132-34
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Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
This is a timely, thoughtful, and useful collection of primary documents on the history of the interactions among Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, and the Canadian state. Given what is currently available, it will be invaluable...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120
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Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
In the summer of 1919, newspapers in several communities in British Columbia printed special victory editions with honour rolls of soldiers and airmen who died or returned wounded from serving on the Western Front during...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 205-206
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In the Mind of a Mountie
T.M. “Scotty” Gardiner’s memoir, In the Mind of a Mountie, fits nicely into the genre of heroic Mountie literature that has enjoyed a popular readership since the late nineteenth century. Gardiner, who served with the...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 194-195
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InJustice Served: The Story of British Columbia’s Italian Enemy Aliens During World War II
Historical redress is a touchy subject and should be handled with care. At root, it is a question about what to address. InJustice Served is funded by the vaguely termed “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP),...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 235-234
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Murder in the Chilcotin
Author Roy Innes can be forgiven for his less than stellar accuracy in depicting the Cariboo Chilcotin in his recent crime novel, Murder in the Chilcotin. His story-telling prowess, captivating story line, and intriguing plot...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 177-78
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Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood
Vancouver’s Chinatown has been the subject of numerous notable academic studies, providing a focus that has proven to be essential to the Canadian historical narrative. In analyzing the history of Vancouver’s Chinatown, scholars have made...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 190-91
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Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960
In the August 1946 issue of the French cinema studies journal, L’écran française, French critic Nino Frank used the term “film noir” to describe a new generation of American crime films only recently allowed into...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 143-44
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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
Westward Bound is a work of remarkable scope and depth. Covering the period from 1886 to 1940, Lesley Erickson uses records from local courts, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the North West Mounted Police...