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New Perspectives on the Gold Rush
Under editor Kathryn Bridge, New Perspectives on the Gold Rush teams up academic historians, archaeologists, and museum professionals in an effort to add previously marginalized voices to traditional histories of British Columbia’s gold rush. Despite...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 164-66
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Names on a Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World War I
Sylvia Crooks’s Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II (2005) brought to life the lives of all the men honoured on the Nelson cenotaph and the impact of the war on their families...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 169-171
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The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown
Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164
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A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia.
This is a journalist’s book about one of the crucial issues of our time: growing inequality. As Thomas Piketty has shown in his careful study of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) the tendency for...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 186-87
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An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism
Although descriptive work on historic artifacts of Asian origin has been sporadically produced by American archaeologists since the 1960s, and by British Columbia archaeologists since the 1970s, recent years have seen a blossoming of Asian...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 123-24
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Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii
In Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii, Louise Takeda challenges the dominant epistemological perspective on the politics of BC resource management in order to “[further] political and social justice” and “give back”...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51
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Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies and Human Communities in British Columbia.
This is a thought-provoking book. Focussing on the rangelands of Interior British Columbia, John Thistle describes how commercial ranching begot inequities, dispossessions, and ecological degradation. All, according to his analysis, were avoidable. Resettling the Range...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 178-79
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Stewards of the People’s Forests: A Short History of the British Columbia Forest Service
The forest industry was the most important economic activity in British Columbia during the twentieth century. Oddly, except for some consideration of its founding, there has not been a major examination of an institution at...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 126-27
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From the West Coast to the Western Front: British Columbians and the Great War
When Mark Forsythe, host of CBC Radio’s mid-day show, BC Almanac, and journalist-producer Greg Dickson discovered that they were both involved in a personal quest to learn about great-uncles and grandfathers who had served...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 127-28
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Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44
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Echoes of British Columbia: Voices from the Frontier
For devotees of British Columbian history and, in particular, of the province’s local histories, the origins of Robert Budd’s latest collection of oral history transcripts will be familiar. Drawn from the pioneering work of...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 122-23
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The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview. Third Edition
Despite its slim size (the main body of text is only 117 pages), The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview is a useful primer for those hoping to learn the basic issues relevant...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08
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The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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Landscape Architecture in Canada
Landscape Architecture in Canada is Ron Williams’ magnum opus, the likely capstone of a distinguished career as researcher, teacher, and practitioner. It is a fine scholarly effort, more than fifteen years in the making. Until...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 136-38
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
Since the sixteenth century, intrepid French Canadians have traversed the North American landscape to the very edges of the continent, and established families and communities in virtually every region north of Mexico. Given this legacy...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 114-16
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He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award
Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...