Book Reviews

Book reviews for all published issues are available on OJS.

Upcoming book reviews

  • Whoever Gives us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia by Lynne Bowen

—Reviewed by Stephen A. Fielding

  • Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition 3rd Edition by Brett McGillivray

—Reviewed by Daniel Clayton

  • Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Agnes C. Laut

—Reviewed by Chad Reimer

  • These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community by Susan Roy

—Reviewed by Madeline Knickerbocker

  • Feeding the Family: 100 Years of Food and Drink in Victoria by Nancy Oke, Robert Griffin, Greg Evans

—Reviewed by Christopher J.P. Hanna

  • British Columbia Politics and Government by Michael Howlett, Dennis Pilon, Tracy Summerville

—Reviewed by Allan Craigie

  • Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians by Timothy J. Stanley

—Reviewed by Patricia Roy

  • After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region by Wayde Compton

—Reviewed by Karina Vernon

  • A Thoroughly Wicked Woman: Murder, Perjury & Trial by Newspaper by Betty Keller

—Reviewed by Daniel Francis

  • Victoria: Crown Jewel of British Columbia, Including Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich and the Peninsula by Susan Mayse

—Reviewed by Will Garnett

  • The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive, Vancouver, to 1956 by Jak King

—Reviewed by Daniel Francis

  • Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 by Lisa Rose Mar

—Reviewed by Zhongping Chen

  • Measure of the Year: Reflections on Home, Family, and a Life Fully Lived by Roderick L. Haig-Brown

—Reviewed by Des Kennedy

  • Talk-Action= Zero: An Illustrated History of D.O.A. by Joe Keithley

—Reviewed by Adele Perry

  • The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors by Alan Twigg
  • Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature by Trevor Carolan

—Reviewed by Carole Gerson

  • Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered by Helen Piddington

—Reviewed by Christopher J.P. Hanna

  • Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade by Ann Carlos, Frank Lewis

—Reviewed by Ted Binnema

  • Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End: Strathcona by Carole Itter, Daphne Marlatt

—Reviewed by John Douglas Belshaw, Diane Purvey

  • Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience by David Hultsch, Leslie Foster, Denise Cloutier-Fisher

—Reviewed by James E. Thornton

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

—Reviewed by Daniel Francis

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

—Reviewed by Diana Pederson

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

—Reviewed by Gary Kaiser

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 by Renisa Mawani

—Reviewed by Hamar Foster

  • The Beggar's Garden by Michael Christie

—Reviewed by Mark Diotte

  • City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties by Lawrence Aronsen

—Reviewed by Matt Cavers

  • Images from the Likeness House by Dan Savard

—Reviewed by Jennifer Cador

  • Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture. by Shari Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Jean Barman, Cheryl Suzack,eds.

—Reviewed by Tina Block

  • Vancouver's Bessborough Armoury: a History. Vancouver: The Fifteenth Field Artillery by R. Victor Stevenson

—Reviewed by James Wood

  • Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 by Benjamin Isitt

—Reviewed by Ron Verzuh

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

—Reviewed by Jim Miller

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

—Reviewed by Patricia McCormack

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

—Reviewed by Katherine Dunster

  • Whitewater Devils: Adventure on Wild Waters by Jack Boudreau

—Reviewed by Anthony Dalton

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

—Reviewed by Jean Barman

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

—Reviewed by Karen Bridget Murray

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

—Reviewed by Pearlann Reichwein

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

—Reviewed by John Lutz

  • 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

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

—Reviewed by Chris Leach