We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.

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The Canadian “West” as a Public Policy Space? Public Policies in Western Canadian Provinces from a National and Cross-National Perspective

By Gerard W. Boychuk, Debora L. Vannijnatten

BC Studies no. 133 Spring 2002 | Page(s) 5-30

government legislation public policy

review essay

“Reading” Rock Art: One Sense/Many Senses

Review by Wendy Wickwire, Michael M'Gonigle

BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 75-93

review essay

Survivance, Signs, and Media Art Histories: New Temporalities and Productive Tensions in Dana Claxton’s Made to Be Ready

Review by Julia Polyck-O'Neill

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 129-244

review essay

“Reading” Rock Art: One Sense/Many Senses

Review by Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire

review essay

Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations: A Review Essay of Recent Literature
Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens
The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations
Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1774-1910

Review by Ira Jacknis

BC Studies no. 135 Autumn 2002 | Pages 187-95

review essay

Regional Surveys of Northwest Coast Native Art

Review by Ira Jacknis

BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 129-34

review essay

Storyeum 2004-2005: Public History on Stage

Review by Meg Stanley

BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 103-6

article

Being Green in BC: Public Attitudes Towards Environmental Issues

By Donald E. Blake, Neil Guppy, Peter Urmetzer

BC Studies no. 112 Winter 1996-1997 | Page(s) 41-61

environment

article

Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz

By Karen Duder

BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 3-24

Gender sexuality women

research note

Society, Place, Work: The BC Public Hospital for the Insane, 1872-1902

By Ken Scott

BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 93-110

employment hospitals mental health Gender chinese

case comment

Public Education Under BC’s Liberals: Fifteen Years of Willful Neglect

By Susan Lambert

article

Pioneers, Progress, and the Myth of the Frontier: The Landscape of Public History in Rural British Columbia

By Elizabeth Furniss

BC Studies no. 115-116 Autumn-Winter 1997 | Page(s) 7-44

historiography colonialism colonization aboriginal people

review essay

A Weaving of Books; What Basket Have We Made?
People among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point
Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Have Been Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry

Review by Roger Fernandes

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Pages 135-140

public art formline aboriginal art northwest coast

Book Review

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...

Review by Linda Quiney

Book Review

Rivers Run Through Us: A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America

Eric B. Taylor’s Rivers Run Through Us: A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America is a synthetic survey of ten waterways. In these fluid vignettes, the author covers the foundational importance...

Review by Daniel Macfarlane

Book Review

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...

Review by Janet Nicol

Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review

Below the Radar: Age of Engagement

Below the Radar is the voice of Simon Fraser University’s community engagement initiative. The host, Am Johal, has been a fixture in Vancouver public affairs for several decades. He is currently Director of SFU’s Vancity...

Review by John Belec

Book Review

Chiru Sakura – Falling Cherry Blossoms: A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression
Picture Brides 写婚妻

Review by Andrea Geiger

article

Interview with Doreen Jensen

By Lynne Bell, Carol Williams

BC Studies no. 115-116 Autumn-Winter 1997 | Page(s) 289-306

women aboriginal art

Book Review

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...

Review by Joshua Nichols

article

“A New Understanding of Things Indian”: George Raley’s Negotiation of the Residential School Experience

By Paige Raibmon

BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996 | Page(s) 69-96

residential schools religion aboriginal people aboriginal art Fraser Valley

soundwork

The Bird Park Sessions

By Julie Andreyev

Woodland Park Sparrow and Sirens

Nicola Lake

Woodland Park Starlings and Train

Okanagan Lake Towhee

Woodland Park Goldfinches

Bird Park

Deep Creek

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 119-126

art new media COVID-19 birds

this space here

BC’s Five Years of Drug Failure, Visualized: The anniversary of the province’s overdose emergency declaration is nothing to celebrate

By Paul Willcocks

BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 13-14

epidemics substance use public policy

Book Review

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,...

Review by Heather MacLeod