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Working Towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Working Towards Equity examines the intersection of the contested nature of disability movements and activism and decision maker actions related to labour market activity in late 20thcentury Canada. Galer’s argument is that advances in labour...
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Outside In: A Political Memoir
Outside In can be read and enjoyed as a straightforward memoir of Libby Davies’ remarkable career as an activist and elected official. It traces her path from her early days working for housing justice in Vancouver’s...
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The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC
To borrow an old joke, institutional histories can often be the sofa beds of historical writing. Neither good as a sofa nor as a bed, institutional histories can often find themselves trapped between academic and...
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Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Sarah Nickel’s Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is a significant contribution, not only to the history of Indigenous affairs in British Columbia, but to Indigenous history as a...
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The Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
Veronica Strong-Boag is one of Canada’s most distinguished women’s historians. One of the major themes of her publishing career has been Canadian women’s struggle for the vote. Strong-Boag’s expertise in the field is very much...
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Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Focusing on the “trente glorieuses” period, Tina Loo’s study of how the Canadian welfare-state pursued its promise of universality gives us an in-depth look at five communities: namely Inuit villages in the district of Keewatin...
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By Law or In Justice
The foundation of Professor Jane Dickson’s book, By Law Or in Justice, is her work as a Commissioner for the Indian Specific Claims Commission, from 2002 to 2009. The Commission itself endured from 1991 to...
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Children of the Kootenays: Memories of Mining Towns
Shirley D. Stainton’s Children of the Kootenays: Memories of Mining Townsdescribes her own and her brother Ray’s childhoods in West Kootenay mining communities during the 1930s and 1940s. Stainton’s father, Lee Hall, was a cook...
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Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
Tamara Starblanket is a Nehiyaw (Cree) legal scholar from Ahthakakoop First Nation and is currently the Dean of Academics at the Native Education College in Vancouver, which is located on the traditional territories of the...
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At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
James Teit was an amazing community-based engaged anthropologist long before such labels were invented. Wendy Wickwire’s anthropological life story of Teit is a consummate account and indeed, as the top of page advertisement exhorts, it...
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Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Between 2011 and 2016, the population of the District of West Vancouver declined by one half of one percent. In contrast, the population of Metro Vancouver grew 6.5%; even the comparably wealthy West Point Grey...
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Sonny Assu: A Selective History
This comprehensive survey of Sonny Assu’s work is prefaced by four incisive essays by prominent indigenous scholars and curators. This beautifully designed and thoughtfully organized book covers significant phases in the Kwakwaka’ wakw artist’s career,...
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On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
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Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence
In his famous study Of Wolves and Men (1978), Barry Lopez pertinently noted that ‘the wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you.’ Paula...
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PRACTICE EXEMPLAR: Land & Sea Project: Community Ecosystem Reconnection
Our time together was confessional, vulnerable, uncomfortable, hopeful. Some people shared powerful stories of connecting with the land, and the healing that they received; others shared the healing that they’ve seen in the ecosystems, such as chum salmon runs returning to Vancouver’s Still Creek. Some reconnected with their ancestors from distant lands, and it brought happiness, fulfillment, and also awareness of loss.
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019
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