Index

Writing Religion into the History of British Columbia: A Review Essay

No Better Land: The 1860 Diaries of the Anglican Colonial Bishop George Hills

Catalysts and Watchdogs: BC's Men of God, 1836-1871

Review by Gail Edwards

BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Pages 101-105

A Reply

By Robert J. McCue

BC Studies no. 43 Autumn 1979 | Page(s) 98

religion Vancouver Island

Two B.C. Pacifists and the Boer War

By Charles W. Humphries

BC Studies no. 45 Spring 1980 | Page(s) 116-127

military history religion Vancouver Victoria

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...

Review by Tina Block

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157

“Betwixt and Between”: The Anglican Church and the Children of the Carcross (Chooutla) Residential School, 1911-1954

By Kenneth Coates

BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 27-47

missionaries residential schools religion aboriginal people Yukon

Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada

Mixed Blessings is a collection of papers developed for a May 2011 workshop, “Religious Encounter and Exchange in Aboriginal Canada,” capably edited by historians Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton, whose helpful introduction and conclusion pull...

Review by Dorothy Kennedy

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 167-9

The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935

Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1]  In contrast to...

Review by Wendy Wickwire

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72

The Secular Northwest: Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar Life

Scholarly endeavours, at their best, are richly textured conversations with a wide range of considered opinion and new sources that reveal dimensions of a subject previously hidden. Tina Block conducts such an endeavor focusing on...

Review by Brian Fraser

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 150-152

“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

Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013

The short title of the book – Red – shares its name with the 2013 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, which gathered together the work of five notable Indigenous artists: Julie...

Review by Geoffrey Carr

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 180-181

From Slave Girls to Salvation: Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home

A Cowherd in Paradise: From China to Canada

Review by LiLynn Wan

BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Pages 146-148

Birken Buddhist Forest Monastery: Asian Migration, the Creative Class, and Cultural Transformation in the New Pacific British Columbia

By Luke Clossey and Karen Ferguson

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 17-44

diaspora migration East Asians religion

‘Most of Today’s Teen-agers Laugh about God’: Youth, Secularization, and the Sixties in British Columbia

By Tina Block

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 21-52

religion sexuality sixties youth

An Ambiguous Relationship: Anglicans and the Japanese in British Columbia, 1902-1949

By Patricia E. Roy

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 105-124

logging race and racism immigration Japanese internment religion

“‘Not being religious didn’t take away from their Jewishness’: The complexities of lived religion among late 19th and early 20th century B.C. Jews”

By Lynne Sorrel Marks

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 63-82

religion Jewish peoples

Magico-Religious Elements in the Traditional Beliefs of Maillardville, B.C.

By Monique Layton

BC Studies no. 27 Autumn 1975 | Page(s) 50-61

oral tradition religion French Canadians Maillardville

Conservative Protestantism and the Modernist Challenge in Vancouver, 1917-1927

By Robert K. Burkinshaw

BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 24-44

religion Vancouver Oliver French E.

Oblate Missionaries and the “Indian Land Question”

By Lynn Blake

BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 27-44

land claims missionaires religion aboriginal people

Mystery Islands: Discovering the Ancient Pacific

Drawing on experience gained from travel writing assignments, Salt Spring author Tom Koppel tackles an ambitious subject, the peopling of the Pacific Ocean, with a book of interesting anecdotes and information set within a larger,...

Review by Chris Arnett

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 169-170

Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...

Review by Andrew Cienski

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229