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Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician
Although both Horace C. Wrinch and his wife Alice are featured in Eldon Lee’s Scalpels and Buggywhips (1997), Horace Wrinch is little known, despite his extraordinary contributions to British Columbia society. Geoff Mynett, a retired lawyer...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 143-144
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When Days Are Long: Nurse in the North
In this book, first published upon her retirement in 1965, Amy Wilson presents a biographical history of her career as a public health nurse in Northern British Columbia and the Yukon during the 1950s and...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 125-126
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Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse
In Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse, Lisa Smith transports the reader to late nineteenth century Pacific Northwest and evocatively offers a history of an extraordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Born in...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 186-7
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Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
During the First World War, 2,845 women enlisted as lieutenant nursing sisters in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) (39), but over the ensuing century their experiences of service have largely gone untold. They comprised...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 144-145
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War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes
For four turbulent years (June 1915 to May 1919) Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes served together in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, taking on new administrative and bedside nursing roles in joint postings...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 145-146
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History 1940-1980
Historian Patrick Wolfe has foregrounded the contradictory condition of Indigenous labour within Euro-American settlement by arguing that mythic narratives of settler diligence coexisted with a heavy reliance on colonized Indigenous labour. As he observes in...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 162-164
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Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977–2007
In Jack Hodgins’s Broken Ground (1998), memories of the Great War haunt the fictional community of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island, but what should be remembered of the horrors of France remains uncertain. The notebook...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 161-163
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Last Dance in Shediac: Memories of Mum, Molly Lamb Bobak
This is a very peculiar book. Although its subject is an artist, the Vancouver-born painter Molly Lamb Bobak, the first female war artist in Canada, there is little about Bobak’s art. Molly Bobak did much more...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 168-169
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From the West Coast to the Western Front: British Columbians and the Great War
When Mark Forsythe, host of CBC Radio’s mid-day show, BC Almanac, and journalist-producer Greg Dickson discovered that they were both involved in a personal quest to learn about great-uncles and grandfathers who had served...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 127-28
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From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War
In his portrait of Victoria High School (VHS), Barry Gough has created a vivid microcosm of the First World War’s impact on Canadians. As one of Canada’s foremost historians, Gough brings a special authenticity to...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 128-30
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Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals
Histories of Aboriginal health form a field that has captured significant public interest after Ian Mosby’s recent revelation of experiments performed on Aboriginal children in residential schools and hospitals. Laurie Meijer Drees gives an accessible...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 161-63
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The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the BC Coast
Promoting an upcoming reading of Don Pepper’s A Life on the Water at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Harbour Publishing exclaims: “Here, finally, is a book about commercial salmon fishing through the eyes of a commercial...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 150-51
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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...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 183-184
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Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St. Ann in Health Care in British Columbia
Today, Mount St. Mary Hospital, an extended care facility in Victoria, is one of the last visible legacies of the Sisters of St. Ann’s contributions to health care in British Columbia. But for more than...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 163
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Passing Through Missing Pages: The Intriguing Story of Annie Garland Foster
In the early 1990s, author Frances Welwood agreed to research the life of Annie Garland Foster for a Nelson Museum exhibition, “The Women of Nelson, 1880-1950.” An early woman graduate of the University of New...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 188-89
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UBC: The First 100 Years
With its heavy glossy paper, large format, and copious illustrations, this looks like a celebratory coffee table book. To classify it as such would be wrong. Drawing on previous histories of the University of British...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11
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Quest for a Profession: The History of the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing
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BC Studies no. 23 Autumn 1974 | Page(s) 56-59
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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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Rain Before Morning
In the spring of 1913, sisters Leah and Elspeth Jamieson, seventeen and eighteen years old, respectively, travel on the Union Steamship Comox from Vancouver past Halfmoon Bay and Pender Harbour to their parents’ home at...