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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
This substantial collection brings interdisciplinary approaches to a range of questions on Aboriginal populations. Aiming to bring about a “comprehensive understanding of the social demographic transformation of the Canadian Aboriginal population” (ix), the contributors review...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149
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This Day in Vancouver
There are some stories about Vancouver that bear retelling. Take the tale of Theodore Ludgate, an American capitalist in the lumber trade who arrived in the city around 1899 with a lease for the...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09
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Becoming British Columbia: A Population History
If Canada, as William Lyon Mackenzie King once quipped, has too much geography, John Belshaw might well reply that Canadian historiography has too little demography. Regional historical writing, including that found in British Columbia, has...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 120-122
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The British Columbia Atlas of Wellness
Maps and atlases have acquired a mystique in the lore of public health since the publication of Dr. John Snow’s famous cholera map of London in the mid-nineteenth century. Somewhere along the way, a notion...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 160-2
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Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth
This wonderful collection of letters describes a special friend ship between Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth between 1940 and 1945. Carr was already recognized as a distinguished artist, but she had just begun to write...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 99-100
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Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
THE POPULARITY OF WILDLIFE, as idea and as icon, is near universal, but the presence ofwildlife in our yards, homes, and neighbourhoods provokes reactions as diverse as the species that we encounter and the places...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 317-8
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Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu
As the title suggests, Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady is an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic as it swept through Vancouver and ran into preparations made for it by the city’s first full-time...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 129-31
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Sharks of the Pacific Northwest: Including Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
Humans have instigated the generalized obliteration of large predators for centuries. The severe, routinely fatal penalty that sharks have paid appears to result in large part from social perspectives founded in fear and ignorance. From...