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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
BC Museums Association Podcast
One of the museum sector’s perennial challenges is sustaining a sense of community and connectivity, given that workers are widely scattered, professional expertise spans many specialist areas, needs and interests are diverse, and opportunities to...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 205-206
Book Review
The York Factory Express: Fort Vancouver to Hudson Bay, 1826-1849
The York Factory Express was an integral part of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trans-continental trade network in the nineteenth century. It carried men and mail from the Pacific coast to Hudson Bay, linking the Columbia...
BC Studies no. 214 Summer 2022 | Page(s) 120
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Altering the Landscape of Our Memories: A Review of Indigenous Cities (Vancouver)
I came to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ as a child, not knowing her name, but knowing she had the strength to hold out sharp city noises and the tenderness to hold onto the shy wood duck. To me,...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 130-133
Book Review
Joseph William McKay: A Métis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia
In 2003, the Canadian Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of R. v. Powley, triggering significant new public interest in Métis identity and history outside of the familiar geography of the Canadian...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 152-153
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Is the World Wonderful? On Judy Chartrand’s What a Wonderful World
Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World on view at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, BC, 19 October 2016 – 26 March 2017. Admittedly, I was confused about where the permanent collection...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 145-149
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Uninterrupted
Editorial note: Uninterrupted is reviewed here following its role as inspiration for a nightly ‘cinematic spectacle’ on Vancouver’s Cambie Street Bridge during the summer of 2017 (see uninterrupted.ca). Uninterrupted, a film about a very special...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 198-9
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...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 212-214
Book Review
Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw
In 2013 the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition brought together three argillite platters made in the late 1880s by Da.a. xiigang, Charles Edenshaw – one from the Field Museum in Chicago, one from the...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 142-145
Book Review
Complicated Simplicity: Island Life in the Pacific Northwest
Complicated Simplicity is a collection of essays, personal and expository, that explore the nature of living on secluded (non-ferry-serviced) islands within the Southwestern part of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (and further abroad too)....
BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 144-145
Book Review
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
Book Review
Where it Hurts
Where it Hurts, by Sarah De Leeuw, is a collection of essays within the genre of creative non-fiction. The vivid essays express loss, trauma and humor. De Leeuw uses complex imagery that takes the reader...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 158-189
Book Review
Raven Walks Around the World
In Raven Walks Around the World, Henley shares parts of his personal journey of activism, travel, and life long work with Indigenous peoples around the world. Through his stories, Henley illuminates the determination of all...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 180-181
Book Review
At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast
Caroline Fox presents in the guise of an account of her experiences as a field biologist a wonderful memoir of coastal British Columbia. Onboard the sailboat Achiever, her job was to survey birds from Vancouver Island to...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 149-105
Book Review
Kwädąy Dän Ts’inchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found
Sometime between 1720 and 1850, late in summer, an eighteen-year-old man was traveling in an icefield in the present-day territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. Well...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 171-2
Book Review
Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
We all remember them. I know that I do. Having spent a summer in my youth washing dishes at Fort Steele heritage town, I remember the wooden boardwalks, the ramshackle buildings, the yellow school buses...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 172-5
Book Review
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
“You can get anywhere if you have the time” (106). Kylik Kisoun, an Inuvialuit guide from Inuvik, said this to Brian Castner when Castner, with the help of four friends, canoed the length of the...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 176-8
Book Review
The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties
In the 1764 Treaty of Niagara, representatives of the British Crown met with a gathering of more than two thousand Indigenous leaders and committed that North American settlement would only proceed with Indigenous consent. At...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 180-2
Book Review
Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017
Cole Harris’s Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017 is delightful summer reading. It is, primarily, a history of the Harris family’s Bosun Ranch and a record of the lives of...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 185-6
Book Review
Everything Shuswap
In 1969, Jim Cooperman arrived in British Columbia from the United States, one of many Vietnam ‘war resisters’ who remade our province in ways that few people yet fully appreciate. One was in building a...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 184-5
Book Review
Summer of the Horse
Donna Kane’s Summer of the Horse elates and lures readers towards reenchantment, or what deep ecologist Thomas Berry calls “a reverence for the mystery and magic of the earth and the larger universe.” Kane calls...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 187-8
Book Review
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Let us get the quibbling out of the way first, lest it leave a bad taste in our mouths at the end. Cambridge University Press appears to have put little effort into indexing this volume,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 202-204
Book Review
Book Review
Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age of Travel
The Canadian Pacific Railway’s travel literature boasts marvellous scenery, adventure, and extravagance. “You shall see mighty rivers, vast forest, boundless plains, stupendous mountains and wonders innumerable, and you shall see in all in comfort, nay...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 139-140
Book Review
Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District
Those who would wish to time-travel to the Comox Valley of the First World War era need only to walk the streets of today’s Courtenay downtown core. There they will encounter numerous large publicly-displayed photographs...