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Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St. Ann in Health Care in British Columbia
Today, Mount St. Mary Hospital, an extended care facility in Victoria, is one of the last visible legacies of the Sisters of St. Ann’s contributions to health care in British Columbia. But for more than...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 163
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Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West
Nayan Shah observes that historians get it wrong when they privilege permanent populations over transient, the nuclear family over other domestic arrangements, and polarized rather than various gender roles. He complains – fairly —...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 174-5
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Is it a house? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington
Synthesizing archaeological research results from the Salish Sea can be a time-consuming task because of the international boundary that currently divides the region. This is further complicated by the rise of cultural resource management archaeology...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 157-9
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V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
V6A is a postal code prefix in Vancouver. It is, thus, an artificial geographical space defined by a bureaucracy housed far from V6A itself. It runs from Burrard Inlet south to False Creek and Great...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 178-80
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Edward S. Curtis, Above the Medicine Line: Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West
Of all the dozens of professional photographers who have directed their cameras at North America’s first human settlers, no name is more synonymous with the words Indian and photographer than that of Edward S. Curtis...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 184-5
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The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History 1945-1953
The writing of Canadian Theatre History, as an academic field of study, is a latecomer, with the first wave of academic articles and books appearing only in the mid-1970s along with the founding the Association...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 182-3
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Architecture and the Canadian Fabric
Broad in scope and filled with both insight and intriguing fact, Architecture and the Canadian Fabric positions itself in a productive cleft between architectural and political discussion — discussion largely attentive to the perennial interest...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 183-4
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The Doukhobors
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 3, Autumn 1969
BC Studies no. 3 Autumn 1969 | Page(s) 64-6
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The Principal’s Office – And Beyond, Volumes 1 (1849-1960) and Volume 2 (1961-2005)
This study considers the development of public education in British Columbia mainly from the perspective of school principals. The author is a prominent scholar in the field of education history and a provocative critic of...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 164-5
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Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada
Retail Nation is a thought-provoking study of the intersection between a rapidly growing consumer economy and the formation of culture and identity in Canada between 1890 and 1940. During this period, argues Donica Belisle, department...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 169-70
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The Library Book: a History of Service to British Columbia
Accepting the challenge to produce, within a fixed deadline, a comprehensive overview of the evolution of libraries in British Columbia must have been daunting. Works of this sort are most often destined to grow old,...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 165-6
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
The negotiation and signing of the numbered treaties with First Nations groups in Western Canada, followed shortly thereafter by the opening of the territory to Euro-Canadian settlement, served to consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 167-8
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The Encyclopedia of Commercial Drive to 1999
Cafes, pasta and pizza restaurants, very affordable produce markets, carnivalesque community events, and grassroots political demonstrations: all of these are the kaleidoscope one envisions when picturing the East side Vancouver neighbourhood of Grandview. The retail...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 180
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Exploiting our Economic Potential
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 4, Spring 1970
BC Studies no. 4 Spring 1970 | Page(s) 53-4
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Guests never leave hungry: The autobiography of James Sewid, a Kawkiutl Indian
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 4, Spring 1970
BC Studies no. 4 Spring 1970 | Page(s) 55-8
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The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 4, Spring 1970
BC Studies no. 4 Spring 1970 | Page(s) 58-62
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Victoria: The fort
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 4, Spring 1970
BC Studies no. 4 Spring 1970 | Page(s) 62-3
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The Canadian Indian: The illustrated story of the great tribes of Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 4, Spring 1970
BC Studies no. 4 Spring 1970 | Page(s) 63-7
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Selling Canada: Three Propaganda Campaigns that Shaped the Nation
In his latest project Daniel Francis takes on a series of publicity campaigns, running from the 1870s through to 1940: immigration to western Canada, the First World War, and the promotion of tourism from the...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 182-83
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The Journals of William Fraser Tolmie, Physician and Fur Trader
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 5, Summer 1970
BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | Page(s) 45-51
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People vs. Politics
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 5, Summer 1970
BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | Page(s) 55-7
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The Unjust Society
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 5, Summer 1970
BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | Page(s) 59-61
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Portraits of the Premiers
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 5, Summer 1970
BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | Page(s) 61-2
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Exploring Fort Vancouver
This fine volume is truly a “must” for those with more than a passing interest in the origins of the multi-ethnic area of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from the Aboriginal inhabitants to the eighteenth and...