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BC Studies #144 (Winter 2004)
Being Young: Journeys to Young Adulthood
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The Winter 2004/05 issue features articles on children and education in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British Columbia.
Articles
Interrupted Relations: The Adoption of Children in Twentieth-Century British Columbia (pg: 5-30) by Veronica Strong-Boag
(legislation) (children) (aboriginal people)
Educating the Eye, Hand and Heart at St. Ann's Academy : A Case Study of Art Education for Girls in Nineteenth-Century Victoria (pg: 31-59) by Margaret Milne Martens, Graeme Chalmers
(art) (children) (education) (religion) (women)
Sacred Daemons: Exploring British Columbian Society's Perceptions of "Mentally Deficient" Children , 1870-1930 (pg: 61-89) by Nic Clarke
(health) (eugenics) (education) (children)
"It Was Two Different Times of the Day, But in the Same Place" : Coast Salish High School Experience in the 1970s (pg: 91-115) by Michael Marker
(Salish) (residential schools) (education) (children) (aboriginal people)
Book Reviews
- Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) by Veronica Strong-Boag, Carole Gerson
—Reviewed by Armand Garnet Ruffo (pgs: 115-8)
- E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by Veronica Strong-Boag, Carole Gerson
—Reviewed by Armand Garnet Ruffo (pgs: 118-21)
- Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Non-recognition by Bruce G. Miller
—Reviewed by Alexander Dawson (pgs: 121-2)
- Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's Letters from Colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863 by Pixie McGeachie, Anne Burnaby McLeod
—Reviewed by Penelope Edmonds (pgs: 122-4)
—Reviewed by John Douglas Belshaw (pgs: 125-6)
- Building the West: Early Architects of British Columbia by Donald Luxton
—Reviewed by Harold Kalman (pgs: 126-8)
- Building Community in an Instant Town: A Social Geography of Mackenzie and Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia by Greg Halseth, Lana Sullivan
—Reviewed by Trevor J. Barnes (pgs: 128-9)
- Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community by David Dinwoodie
—Reviewed by Jo-Anne Fiske (pgs: 129-31)
- A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89 by Robert M. Galois
—Reviewed by Barry M. Gough (pgs: 131-3)
- Hub City: Nanaimo, 1886-1920 by Jan Peterson
- Black Diamond City: Nanaimo- The Victorian Era by Jan Peterson
—Reviewed by Patrick A. Dunae (pgs: 133-5)
- Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History by Quentin Mackie, Gary Coupland, R. G. Matson
—Reviewed by Catherine Carlson (pgs: 136-9)
- Starbuck Valley Winter by Roderick L. Haig-Brown
—Reviewed by Arn Keeling (pgs: 139-41)
- Breaking the 'Silence': A Review of Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan by E. G. Perrault
—Reviewed by Shelley Chan (pgs: 141-2)
- Edenbank: The Story of a Canadian Pioneer Farm by Oliver N. Wells
—Reviewed by Morag Maclachlan (pgs: 142-4)
- McGowan's War: The Birth of Modern British Columbia on the Fraser River Gold Fields by Donald J. Hauka
—Reviewed by Daniel P. Marshall (pgs: 144-5)
- Bloody Practice: Doctoring in the Cariboo and around the World by Sterling Haynes
- Wilderness Dreams by Jack Boudreau
- Frontier Cultural Complex by Jack Boudreau
—Reviewed by Lorna Townsend (pgs: 146-8)
- Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University by Sharon E. Kahn, Dennis Pavlich
—Reviewed by Gordon Shrimpton (pgs: 148-9)
Contributors
F. Graeme Chalmers is a professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on various aspects of art education.
Nic Clarke is a doctoral student of history at the University of Ottawa. He would like to thank Robert McDonald, Chad Gaffield (and other research group members at the University of Ottawa), Leslie Paris, Veronica Strong-Boag, and the readers for their advice and assistance with earlier drafts of this paper. Nic would also like to extend special thanks to his wife, Marcia George.
Michael Marker is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies and the Director of Ts"kel First Nations Graduate Studies. His recent publications include articles on Indigenous voice and transformation in Qualitative Studies in Education and the Canadian Journal of Native Education and a chapter in Student Affairs: Experiencing Higher Education (2004).
Margaret Milne Martens teaches art history at Trinity Western University. She completed her MA in art history at the University of British Columbia.
Veronica Stong-Boag is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies and the Women's Studies Programs at the University of British Columbia where she teaches courses on the history of women, children, and childhood. She is presently working on two books, one on the history of adoption in Canada and the other on the history of Canadian children. She has written about the Mohawk-English Canadian writer and performer, E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), the suffragist Nellie L. McClung, Canadian women in the 1920 and 1930s, women's paid and unpaid labour, and early Canadian women doctors.
Bibliography of British Columbia
Prepared by Gail Edwards
