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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...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 144-145
research note
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Chief Supernatural Being with the Big Eyes (2021)
Exploring the creative possibilities offered by augmented reality (AR) technology, Vancouver-based Haida artist Ernest Swanson has teamed up with the Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) and AR designer Mark Illing to present Chief Supernatural Being with...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 125-128
photo essay
reflection
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
When the City Sleeps, We Dream of Disruption: A Review of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions Exhibition
Lisa Jackson’s exhibition entitled Transmissions premiered at the Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus from 6–28 September 2019. This new body of work weaves interdisciplinary themes regarding society, nature, Indigenous languages, and ecological futures. Lisa Jackson is Anishinaabe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 103-107
Book Review
Quietly Shrinking Cities: Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth
Growth is good and small is beautiful. These two mid-twentieth century mottos continue to influence thinking about cities. On balance, Queen’s University geographer Maxwell Hartt would say that the former continues to hold sway more...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 164-166
Book Review
Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place and Identity in Indigenous Communities
In this innovative and important book, Gwilyn Eades, a geographer from Terrace, undertakes a kaleidoscopic investigation of the significance of maps, cartography, contemporary geo-coding technologies (GIS, GPS, and Google Earth), and questions of spatial cognition...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 164-165
article
Book Review
Historical GIS Research in Canada
This is a wonderful collection of thirteen essays, nine co-authored (twenty-seven authors all told), written by historians, geographers, librarians, archivists, cartographers, environmental scientists, and an architect, many of them acknowledging by name the other research...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 163-65
article
Book Review
British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
In British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas, Derek Hayes uses over 900 contemporary maps to illustrate the history of British Columbia. The maps are beautifully reproduced, carefully analyzed in captions, often supported by useful...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51
Book Review
Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
Book Review
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
Book Review
The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
This ambitious book takes up the daunting challenge of surveying Canada’s evolution from the 1500s to the 1870s. Cole Harris’ long and distinguished career as a historical geographer with exceptionally wide-ranging interests provide him with...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 125- 7
Book Review
Salmon Farming: The Whole Story
Salmon Farming : The Whole Story is not the “whole story,” but it is certainly the standard story that fish farmers like to tell of an industry maligned by “constant high-profile public opposition” (18). Peter...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 155-7
Book Review
Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891
One of the most unexpected conse quences of the systematic social history undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s was a profound rethinking of its initial focus on industrialization and urbanization as the central features of...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 106-7
Book Review
Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912
This is a wonderful addition to the history of Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia and Canada. It is unusual because it takes images as the starting point and valuable because the people upon whom it...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 108-10
Book Review
The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage
In a small, unbuilt parcel of land in East Vancouver surrounded by houses, streets, and Tyee Elementary school, a grassy gulch takes the shape, on closer inspection, of a thin, winding creek bed. At the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 149-50
Book Review
Nature and Human Societies: Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History
In the three decades since environmental history burst onto the academic scene in the United States in the early 1970s, the field experienced impressive growth among American scholars and internationally in arenas such as South...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 141-4
Book Review
The Freshwater Fishes of British Columbia
I have good reason to be eternally grateful to the author of this book on BC’s freshwater fishes. Many years ago in my first university post, when desperately seeking interesting material with which to enliven the...