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BC’s Five Years of Drug Failure, Visualized: The anniversary of the province’s overdose emergency declaration is nothing to celebrate

By Paul Willcocks

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BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 13-14

epidemics substance use public policy

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

By Andrew Woolford

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

newspapers epidemics health Vancouver

Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia

By Cole Harris

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BC Studies no. 115-116 Autumn-Winter 1997 | Page(s) 45-82

colonization fur trade maritime fur trade epidemics aboriginal culture

The drug war must end: The right to life, liberty and security of the person during the COVID-19 pandemic for people who use drugs

By VANDU, WAHRS, BCAPOM, Russ Maynard, Ehsan Jozaghi

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BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 15-18

COVID-19 epidemics substance use public policy

Rights Groups React to Prisoner Death in Custody; Call for Public Inquest and Immediate Release of Prisoners to Stop Dangerous Spread of COVID-19

By Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, Joint Effort, BC Civil Liberties Association

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BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 5-7

epidemics Indigenous worlds Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs prisons and incarceration

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

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

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

Balloon Bombs, the Alaska Highway, and Influenza: Tsek’ehne Perspectives on the 1943 Flu Epidemic

By Daniel Chester Forest Sims

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BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 111-130

epidemics oral tradition Tsek'ehne (Ingenika people) Alaska

Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada

Over the past two decades, community forestry has been adopted with growing frequency across Canada. Localities have sought to balance multiple values – economic, social, environmental – within systems of decentralized forest management. Contributors to Growing...

Review by Kirsten McIlveen

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BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 164-165

Measles, 1847-1850: The First Modern Epidemic in British Columbia

By Robert M. Galois

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BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 31-43

epidemics fur trade health

Smallpox in the Pacific Northwest: The First Epidemics

By Robert Boyd

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BC Studies no. 101 Spring 1994 | Page(s) 5-40

epidemics maritime fur trade aboriginal people northwest coast

Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests

The Insatiable Bark Beetle

Review by David Brownstein

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BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Pages 236-238

Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20

Epidemics call out the ambulance-chaser in all of us, and for health historians, there is none more attention-grabbing than the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, mistakenly dubbed the “Spanish Flu,” the only infectious disease to stop the...

Review by Megan Davies

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BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 183-184

The Library Book: a History of Service to British Columbia

Accepting the challenge to produce, within a fixed deadline, a comprehensive overview of the evolution of libraries in British Columbia must have been daunting. Works of this sort are most often destined to grow old,...

Review by Tom Shorthouse

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BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 165-6

Exploring Fort Vancouver

This fine volume is truly a “must” for those with more than a passing interest in the origins of the multi-ethnic area of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from the Aboriginal inhabitants to the eighteenth and...

Review by Stanley Copp

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BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 159-60

Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tze-whit-zen Village

Breaking Ground, by journalist Lynda Mapes, is a compelling, well told story of a Coast Salish tribe in Washington State – the Lower Elwha – and its fraught relations with the settler community that grew...

Review by Bruce Miller

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BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 115-116

Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia

This book is not the traditional academic, well-documented research dissertation on the life of Simon Fraser. As Steven Hume states at the beginning, there was no intention of making this a “conventional biography.” This text...

Review by Brett McGillivray

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BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 123-125