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Iroquois in the West
Sometimes the most detailed and poignant histories emerge from historical fragments. In Iroquois in the West Jean Barman uses what she calls “slivers of stories from the shadows of the past” to tell a rich...
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Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Ten years and many miles separated two distinct, yet in some ways similar, gold rushes. In 1848, rumors of gold at Sutter’s Mill sparked a process that would lure roughly 265,000 people to California, a...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 157-158
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Apples, etc. An Artist’s Memoir
Apples, etc. An Artist’s Memoir by Gathie Falk, edited by Robin Laurence, is an account of the acclaimed Vancouver-based artist’s life that offers new insight into her tenacious experimentation with the ordinary. Like a grocery list...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 163-165
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Asian Canadian Studies Reader
This collection of essays is an integral part of American-modelled activism to establish a collective scholarly field for Asian Canadians beyond national boundaries. Such trials, as the editors argue, have already been initiated, for example,...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
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Engaging the Line: How the Great War Shaped the Canada-US Border
That the Great War changed boundaries and upset communities is not news to anyone who looks at an historical atlas of Europe. That the war affected communities living along what is often referred to as ‘the...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 158-160
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Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
Anyone with even the most superficial knowledge of eugenics, racism, the ‘domestication’ of women, and the history of the 20th century will know why pronatalism might ring the wrong bells. And this is setting aside...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 194-6
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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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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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The Amazing Mazie Baker: The Squamish Nation’s Warrior Elder
I grew up ten minutes away from Eslha7án, the Mission Indian Reserve, in what is today known as North Vancouver, which is part of the territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw or Squamish Nation. Yet I...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 156-158
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Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Canada has a long history of reliance on the labour of both permanent immigrants and migrant workers. In recent decades, the number of migrant workers entering Canada has increased significantly relative to permanent immigrants. A...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 161-163
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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar
It was with great anticipation that those of us who study South Asian migration to Canada have awaited the expanded and revised version of Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru. Johnston’s original monograph...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 156-157
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An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism
Although descriptive work on historic artifacts of Asian origin has been sporadically produced by American archaeologists since the 1960s, and by British Columbia archaeologists since the 1970s, recent years have seen a blossoming of Asian...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 123-24
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Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia
Just about every kid who grew up in British Columbia in the 1980s had a friend (or a friend of a friend) whose parents were American immigrants. Their parents usually arrived in the province sometime...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 179-181
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The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar’s groundbreaking work, The Punjabis in British Columbia, represents a significant addition to a number of fields. At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 240-242
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Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry: A Home Child Experience
The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was located near Duncan, British Columbia. Between 1935 and 1950 it accommodated over three hundred underprivileged British children. Marjorie Arnison was one of them. She arrived at the...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 228-230
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Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
In Mnemonic: A Book of Trees Teresa Kishkan explores how our concept of self is intimately connected to the places we have experienced. Kishkan describes how places are sensed and experienced, and how these place-specific...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 246-247
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Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific
The history of Canada’s Pacific relations has long been a neglected subject. The general consensus was that Pacific relations were not central to understanding the history of the country and its place in the world....
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 128-131
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Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family
Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family, finds Hugh Johnston, the leading expert on early South Asian migration to Canada, on familiar terrain. This time Johnston provides a rare familial and...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 182-183
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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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Lillian Alling: The Journey Home
In 1929, Lillian Alling reached the coast of Alaska on her way to Siberia. Her three-year walk across North America began in New York City and ended at Cape Wales where her footsteps disappeared after...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 175-6
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition 3rd Edition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 132-3
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Whoever Gives us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
More than twenty years ago, Gabriele Scardellato lamented the dearth of attention to Italian Canadians living “beyond the frozen wastes” (Scardellato 1989). There have been modest advances since that time, including Patricia K. Wood’s Nationalism...