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Brushed by Cedar, Living By the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 124, Winter 1999
BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 110-11
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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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Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell’s Canyon High Dam Controversy
This is a book about why something did not happen. It is not quite counter-factual history, but it is an approach that works to remind us that nothing is inevitable. In the postwar Northwest, nothing,...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 122-4
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Station Normal: The Power of the Stave River
PDF – MacDonald Review Essay, BC Studies 133, Spring 2002
BC Studies no. 133 Spring 2002 | Page(s) 103-5
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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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Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Water Management: Towards Agreement in the Fraser River Basin (Vol. I)
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 93, Spring 1992
BC Studies no. 93 Spring 1992 | Page(s) 91-3
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Water in Sustainable Development: Exploring Our Common Future in the Fraser River Basin (Vol. 2)
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 97, Spring 1993
BC Studies no. 97 Spring 1993 | Page(s) 74-7
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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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Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
IT WAS WITH SOME excitement and a little trepidation that I agreed to review Bill Miller’s book. First of all, my father, George Ball, was a Yukon Telegraph Line operator in the early years; and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West
Alexander Caulfield Anderson was born to British parents on a plantation in India in 1814, raised and schooled in England, and in 1831 arrived in Lachine, Lower Canada, where he was promptly hired on as...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 180-82
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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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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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Sturgeon Reach: Shifting Currents at the Heart of the Fraser
The Fraser River between Mission and Hope has been the cultural hearth of the Stó:lÅ for as long as anyone can remember. Some of British Columbia’s largest Indigenous settlements and most important cultural sites are...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 183-85
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Through an Unknown Country: The Jarvis-Hanington Winter Expedition through the Northern Rockies, 1874-1875
This miscellany of writings, chiefly by two civil engineers who for parts of their careers toiled as railway surveyors, aims to carve out a prominent place for them in the history of Canada. Ed Jarvis...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 212-214
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Mapping my Way Home: A Gitxsan History
British Columbians may be familiar with the landmark Delgamuukw case (Supreme Ct. of Canada, 1997), which established that testimony on based upon traditional knowledge and oral history is valid evidence. But most are limited in...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 179-180
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The Good Hope Cannery: Life and Death at a Salmon Cannery
Until post-war technology allowed for the centralization of salmon canning, the industry relied on numerous canneries located close to the fishing grounds. More than 200 canneries were scattered along the BC coast, and apart from...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 170-1
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The Legendary Betty Frank: The Cariboo’s Alpine Queen
As a young girl, Betty Cox (Frank) had some very non-traditional ideas of what she wanted to be when she grew up. She dreamed of riding horses, mushing dogs, and guiding hunters in the northern...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 133-34
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The Business of Power: Hydroelectricity in Southeastern British Columbia, 1897-1997
When Jeremy Mouat’s The Business of Power first came out in 1997, both Cominco and West Kootenay Power and Light, the main corporate subjects of Mouat’s book (the latter of which commissioned it), had recently...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 206-207
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Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
A decade has passed since R v Powley determined that the Métis in Sault Ste. Marie have an Aboriginal right to hunt, and we are still coming to terms with its significance. The multidisciplinary collection...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 141-42
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Profit and Ambition, The North West Company and the Fur Trade 1779-1821
This booklet was published to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s current exhibition (by the same name), which ends 6 February 2011. It is more than just a catalogue because, in addition to the superb...