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Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies
“There is no single historiography of internment” in Canada, write Rhonda L. Hinter and Jim Mochoruk in the introduction of this ambitious collection of essays (9-10). Siloed histories of particular internments, they suggest, convey episodic...
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Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence and the Settler Everyday in British Columbia
The history of colonial British Columbia is, in many respects, well-trodden ground. Over the past few decades, scholars like Jean Barman, Cole Harris, and Adele Perry have made multiple transformative contributions to our understanding of...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 122-124
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Voices from the Skeena: An Illustrated Oral History
Many familiar with Imbert Orchard’s CBC radio interviews from the 1960s will welcome this publication of transcriptions of oral interviews relating to the history of the Skeena River together with forty illustrations executed by the...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 123-124
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Vancouverism
It’s best to start any study with a clear, concise, and irrefutable sentence. But “Vancouver is a place” is taking that axiom too far. And, as anyone who knows horses will tell you, a place...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 114-117
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Witness to Loss
Witness to Loss is a multi-authored study of wartime Japanese Canadian confinement that draws from the memoirs of Kishizo Kimura, a Japanese-born man who immigrated to Canada in 1911. Kimura had an important impact on the...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 163-164
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The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake
In recent years, the historiography of British Columbia has burgeoned. Much of this rich and growing scholarship focuses on the province as a whole, or on its urban centres. We still have much to learn...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157
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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna represents a collective effort to create a historiography of nonhuman animals and human subjects in Canada since...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 188-9
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Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
In 1921 the Prince George Citizen reminded its readership that “central B.C. is not a new country” (Prince George Citizen 1921). Defining “central B.C.” as those parts of the province situated between the 52nd and...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966
David Chuenyan Lai and Ding Guo’s Great Fortune Dream is a comprehensive history of the Chinese in Canada, from early settlement to the 1960s. While much has been written on the subject, there have been...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 207-208
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Polarity, Patriotism and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919
Premised on his insight that “If there is an arithmetic to the management of dissent, there is also a mathematics” (6), Brock Millman’s study of the polarization of Canadian society into supporters and opponents of...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 209-212
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Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914
This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140
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A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda Ambrose has taken on the challenging task of telling the life story of a woman who left behind no personal diaries or papers and only a fragmented paper trail....
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 166-167
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Canadian State Trials, Volume IV
The fourth volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials is a critical analysis of the powers, both theoretical and practical, of Canada’s judiciary and political executive, and how Canadian state officials used such...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 148-150
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Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Past
A student in search of a thesis topic or a scholar seeking to understand the shape of historical writing in New Zealand over the past fifty years need go no further. In this collection of...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 153-155
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Common Bonds: A History of Greater Vancouver Community Credit Union
The credit union movement in British Columbia is, in a way, a legacy of the Great Depression. When banks and governments were unwilling or unable to respond appropriately to economic crisis, mutual aid arrangements became...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 172-173
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Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908
At first glance, a review of the biography of a nineteenth century Quebec politician seems out of place in BC Studies. Born in France in 1829 to a wealthy French Protestant father and his...