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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...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond (Season 1 and 2)
In 2018 and 2019, Sierra Club BC, through the leadership of Caitlyn Vernon and former CBC host and broadcaster, Susan Elrington, released an episodic educational podcast resource called Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond. This...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 207-208
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Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It
Given the failure of constitutional negotiations to define the meaning of Aboriginal rights and title recognized in Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution – a failure that marks the recalcitrance of provincial and federal governments...
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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
Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me
Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me is a monthly podcast on Japanese Canadian history and culture. Produced and hosted by Raymond Nakamura and staff of the Nikkei National Museum, the episodes are structured as a casual...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 134-135
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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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Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Most Canadians are aware of the existence of treaties between Indigenous peoples and the Crown. Phrases like “treaty rights” and “treaty relationships” form part of the everyday political vocabulary at every level of our federal...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 150-151
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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...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 152-153
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Now Is the Time
In the extraordinary short film Now Is the Time, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter brings to the screen a moving story of renewal through the restoration and re-editing of footage from the National Film Board of...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 130-131
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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...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 127-128
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A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia
A core rationale for this book series, Lara Campbell explains, is the necessity to “tell regional stories” about the women’s suffrage movement (13). Campbell demonstrates, for example, that the absence of a party system in...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 160-162
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Kropotkin and Canada
In this translated monograph, Alexey Gennadievich Ivanov depicts the travels of the famous anarchist theoretician Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) in Canada during 1897. Drawing on a recently uncovered archive, Ivanov details Kropotkin’s impressions of Canada,...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 162-163
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The Bomb in the Wilderness: Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
John O’Brian’s recent book on the photographic representation of the nuclear age focuses on the Canadian context and readers with an interest in photography, atomic age culture, and Canadiana will not be disappointed. The Bomb...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 163-164
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Resolve: The Story of the Chelsea Family and a First Nation Community’s Will to Heal
The remains of residential schools are scattered throughout Canada. Indeed, there are only three provinces (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland) that did not house residential schools. There is not an Indigenous community, family,...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 210-212
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Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley
Eugene Thornton Kingsley, an influential socialist in early British Columbia, was 33 years old when he adopted his revolutionary stance. Employed as a brakeman on a railway in rural Montana in 1890, he fell between...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 212-214
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Fool’s Gold: The Life and Legacy of Vancouver’s Official Town Fool
Once upon an acid-warped time, Vancouver had its own town fool. In the late sixties, a middle-aged family man, Kim Foikis, dressed in a red and blue jester’s outfit and led his donkeys, Peter and...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 219-221
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Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Marion McKinnon Crook’s Always Pack a Candle is an enlightening memoir of public health nursing in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of British Columbia in the early 1960s. Crook’s experience as a neophyte public health nurse armed...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 222-224
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Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park
Coast Salish Indigenous people never ceded their lands and resources to settlers and have always asserted their sovereignty. Over time, those assertions have taken various forms: petitions, protests, litigation. There have also been cultural assertions...