BC Studies #172 (Winter 2011/12)

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Articles

Indigenous Rights and Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Great Bear Rainforest (pg: 9-33) by Margaret Low, Karena Shaw
(aboriginal rights) (economic development) (environment) (government) (Great Bear Rainforest)

McBride of McKenna-McBride: Premier Richard McBride and the Indian Question in British Columbia (pg: 35-76) by Patricia E. Roy
(Vancouver) (Tsimshian) (Songhees) (Prince Rupert) (McBride, Sir Richard) (land claims) (Kitsilanos) (Indian Reserves) (Victoria)

Pluralism, Institutionalism, and the Theories of BC Politics (pg: 77-104) by Mark Crawford
(class) (natural resources) (political parties) (politics)

The Distribution and Toponymy of 19th Century Placer Mining Along Fraser River, British Columbia (pg: 105-125) by Andrew David Nelson, Michael Kennedy
(Fraser River) (gold rush) (maps) (mining)

Book Reviews

• Images from the Likeness House by Dan Savard

—Reviewed by Jennifer Cador (pgs: 127-8)

• The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism by Keith Thor Carlson

—Reviewed by Madeline Knickerbocker (pgs: 128-9)

• Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities by Penelope Edmonds

—Reviewed by John Lutz (pgs: 130-31)

• Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools, A Memoir. by Theodore Fontaine

—Reviewed by Jim Miller (pgs: 131-32)

• Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan

—Reviewed by Daniel Francis (pgs: 132-33)

• The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book. by Gord Hill
• Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life by Morris Bate, Jim Brown
• Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater by Sylvia Olsen

—Reviewed by Jean Barman (pgs: 134-35)

• This is What They Say. Stories by Francois Mandeville: A Story Cycle Dictsted in Northern Alberta in 1928 by François Mandeville, Ron Scollon (Editor and translator from Chipewyan), Robert Bringhurst (Foreword)

—Reviewed by Patricia McCormack (pgs: 136-37)

• The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay's 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies by Charles Helm, Mike Murtha (eds.)

—Reviewed by Pearlann Reichwein (pgs: 137-38)

• From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919 by Benjamin Isitt

—Reviewed by Chris Leach (pgs: 138-39)

• Still Fishin': The BC Fishing Industry Revisited by Alan Haig-Brown

—Reviewed by Diana Pedersen (pgs: 140-41)

• Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth by Jane Pulkingham (ed.)

—Reviewed by Karen Bridget Murray (pgs: 141-45)

• The Beggar's Garden by Michael Christie

—Reviewed by Mark Diotte (pgs: 145-46)

• Chicken Poop for the Soul: In Search of Food Sovereignty by Kristeva Dowling

—Reviewed by Katherine Dunster (pgs: 146-48)

• Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway by Robert M. Wilson

—Reviewed by Gary Kaiser (pgs: 148-49)

Contributors

Mark Crawford, a graduate of the University of British Columbia and Oxford University, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Centre for Social Sciences at Athabasca University. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta. 

Michael Kennedy is a retired geography teacher living actively on a ridge south of Lillooet in the middle canyons of the Fraser River. He is fifth generation of his family to live out their lives there in intimacy with these dramatic landscapes. 

Eric Leinberger is a cartographer in the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia, where he has prepared many maps and illustrations in books and journals since July 1992. 

Margaret (Maggie) Low received a BSc from the University of Guelph in Resource Management and an MA in Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria. Maggie is interested in sustainability and environment issues, especially those that tackle the challenges of ensuring ecological integrity while maintaining human well-being. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC. 

Andrew Nelson is a geomorphologist who completed his Masters degree in the Geography Department at ubc in 2011. His research interests include human-landscape interaction, the evolution of sediment slugs in rivers, and the use of historical methods to understand geomorphic processes and change. His MSc work along the Fraser River emphasizes the importance of understanding upstream and historical context in the study of natural processes. 

Patricia E. Roy is professor emeritus of History at the University of Victoria. This article draws on research for her forthcoming biography of Richard McBride. 

Karena Shaw is Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.