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Country Roads of British Columbia: Exploring the Interior
Liz Bryan will be known to many readers of BC Studies as the founding publisher and editor (with her husband, photographer Jack Bryan) of Western Living and the author of British Columbia: This Favoured Land...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 132-4
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Svoboda
Bill Stenson’s Svoboda is a coming-of-age novel set in the West Kootenay during the 1950s. Vasili Saprikin is a Doukhobor who spends most of his earliest years with his mother (a widow) and grandfather in...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 143-4
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Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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Vancouver Ltd.
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 30, Summer 1976
BC Studies no. 30 Summer 1976 | Page(s) 86-9
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Continental Waterboy: the Columbia River Controversy
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 10, Summer 1971
BC Studies no. 10 Summer 1971 | Page(s) 69-74
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God’s Galloping Girl: The Peace River Diaries of Monica Storrs, 1929-1931
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 45, Spring 1980
BC Studies no. 45 Spring 1980 | Page(s) 137-41
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Waterfowl on a Pacific Estuary: A Natural History of Man and Waterfowl on the Lower Fraser River
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 61, Spring 1984
BC Studies no. 61 Spring 1984 | Page(s) 88-9
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Stein: The Way of the River
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 84, Winter 1989/90
BC Studies no. 84 Winter 1989-1990 | Page(s) 113-6
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Researcher’s Guide to British Columbia: Nineteenth Century Directories, A Bibliography & Index
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 83, Autumn 1989
BC Studies no. 83 Autumn 1989 | Page(s) 107-8
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The Trail of 1858: British Columbia’s Gold Rush Past
After the California and Australia gold rushes, the Fraser River rush of 1858 was considered the third great exodus of gold seekers in search of a New El Dorado. At the time, it was said:...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 121-3
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Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
This book is not the traditional academic, well-documented research dissertation on the life of Simon Fraser. As Steven Hume states at the beginning, there was no intention of making this a “conventional biography.” This text...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 123-125
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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
PDF – Stadfeld Review Essay – BC Studies 121, Spring 1999
BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Page(s) 115-21
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L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
MANY NORTH AMERICAN cities have had great civic leaders. Fiorello La Guardia, New York’s Depression-era mayor, is considered the father of modern New York; Metro chair Fred Gardiner put his distinctive imprint on Toronto in the...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 128-30
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The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914
David Leonard’s latest work on the Peace River country of northern British Columbia and Alberta is distinguished from its predecessors by an emphasis on the region’s agricultural history. Drawn in part from documents profiling who...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 111-2
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Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast: Their Biographies and Photographs
The term “Nikkei” has become prevalent in the last decade or two. Its broad definition is “people of Japanese descent and their descendants,” and includes those of mixed heritage. It assumes they have an interest...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 130-1
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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
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Finding Ft. George
One challenge of writing a poetry collection that centres around rural life is that the poet is automatically engaged with debates between centre and periphery, between the urban and the rural, and, in the case...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 145-7
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The Reckoning of Boston Jim: A Novel
In the aftermath of the Crimean War, Eugene Augustus Hume resigns his commission. Later, hearing the casual remark that the charge of the Light Brigade was unnecessary, Eugene thinks to himself “The whole war was...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 147-8
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Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia
John Calvert is a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, but this is not the kind of book one expects from an academic. It presents a conspiracy theory in which the sole purpose...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 162-4
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Far West: The Story of British Columbia
When I received this book by this popular and prolific writer, I thought it was a coffee table history of British Columbia. While Far West is large and glossy, I quickly realized that BC Studies...