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Book Review

So You Girls Remember That: Memories of a Haida Elder

Every morning when I build the fire and when it start to go, if it’s scattered over, you have to poke it and put it together and it start to go. That’s the way life...

Review by Leslie A. Robertson

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Wilson Duff: Coming Back, A Life

Wilson Duff’s life had enough pathos and controversy to inspire two fictional operas, a novel, and considerable gossip. It is about time for a factual biography. This thoroughly researched and well-written book is a must...

Review by Ted Binnema

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Okanagan Women’s Voices: Syilx and Settler Writing and Relations, 1870s – 1960s

The “truth” of British Columbia’s history has yet to be fleshed out, with many active participants’ voices un-accounted for. This is particularly true regarding certain facts of Indigenous-settler relations that can be best understood through...

Review by Kerrie Charnley

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Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

Given the failure of constitutional negotiations to define the meaning of Aboriginal rights and title recognized in Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution – a failure that marks the recalcitrance of provincial and federal governments...

Review by Corey Snelgrove

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To Be a Warrior: The Adventurer Life and Mysterious Death of Billy Davidson

To Be A Warrior chronicles the life of wilderness adventurer Billy Davidson (1947-2003), a rock climbing mountaineer and ocean kayaker who spent the last thirty years of his life alone on various small islands in...

Review by Janet Nicol

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Deadly Neighbours: A Tale of Colonialism, Cattle Feuds, Murder and Vigilantes in the Far West

Deadly Neighbours opens a window into the relationship between immigrant settlers and the Sema:th (Sumas) and Sto:lo people residing in British Columbia’s Sumas Prairie and Nooksack Valley during the 1870s and 1880s. Several conflicts are...

Review by Janet Nicol

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For Freedom We Will Fight, the Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia 1905-1990

More than a hundred years after losing its prominence, the fabled Industrial Workers of the World continues to resonate as a union without parallel in the annals of labour history in North America. Besides the...

Review by Rod Mickleburgh

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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...

Review by Scott P. Stephen

review essay

An Occasional Distant Rumble of Guns: The Second World War in British Columbia’s Historiography

Review by Scott Sheffield

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 121-140

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Municipalities Matter: Public Funding for the Nonprofit Sector, 1960 to 2017

By Dominique Clement, Takara Ketchell and Matthew Arkinstall

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 9-34

urban life social services government municipal government

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Celebrated Canadian Artist Targets $100,000 Goal for Ukraine Aid

By Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 7-8

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Reflections on the Surface of the Pond

Rubber Boots for Dancing and other Memories of Pioneer Life in the Bulkley Valley

Review by Cole Harris

BC Studies no. 49 Spring 1981 | Pages 79-85

photography agriculture Vancouver

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Local History, Local Colour

Bella Coola

The Nootka Connection: Europe and the Northwest Coast, 1790-1795

A Pour of Rain: Stories from a West Coast Fort

Review by Gordon R. Elliott

BC Studies no. 51 Autumn 1981 | Pages 63-84

historiography

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The World is as Sharp as a Knife

Review by Wayne Suttles

BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | Page(s) 82-91

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Bill Holm, Willie Seaweed and the Problem of Northwest Coast Indian “Art”

Review by Michael M. Ames

BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 74-81

aboriginal art aboriginal culture northwest coast

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The Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

Review by Christon I. Archer

BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 43-61

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Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest Coast (volume 7)

Review by Anne Goodfellow

BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 185-191

Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review

Porcupine Podcast

“How do porcupines hug?” Merrell-Anne Phare asks. “Carefully,” Michael Miltenberger responds. This old joke is the disarming beginning to every episode of Porcupine, a podcast hosted by political consultant Michael Miltenberger and lawyer Merrell-Ann Phare....

Review by Mary Tuti Baker