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These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community
In the summer of 1968, my grandmother would sometimes take my young aunt and uncle to the northern bank of the outflow of the Fraser River to dig for “Indian treasure” at the Marpole Midden....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 125-7
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Fishing the Coast: A Life on the Water
“There are no books on how to catch fish for a living,” writes Don Pepper in his preface to Fishing the Coast. “None” (10). What might seem a bold statement is, upon examination, accurate. In...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 217-18
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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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Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District
Those who would wish to time-travel to the Comox Valley of the First World War era need only to walk the streets of today’s Courtenay downtown core. There they will encounter numerous large publicly-displayed photographs...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 145-146
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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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Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 Volumes 1-3
In 1793 Alexander Mackenzie crossed the continent in search of a route to the Pacific for the North West Company trade. He reached the Pacific at Dean Channel but failed to find a viable trade...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 142-44
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Everything Shuswap
In 1969, Jim Cooperman arrived in British Columbia from the United States, one of many Vietnam ‘war resisters’ who remade our province in ways that few people yet fully appreciate. One was in building a...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 184-5
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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
This is not the first nor will be it the last scholarly or non-scholarly work on the North West Company’s ill-fated “Columbia adventure,” an enterprise in frustration for the investors and participants, both by land...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 204-205
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The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest
Audrey DeLella Benedict and Joseph Gaydos’s book about the Salish Sea, like Beamish and McFarlane’s recent tome on the Strait of Georgia (or North Salish Sea), The Sea Among Us, is a gorgeously illustrated and...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 205-206
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Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
Most of the world’s water basins are transborder. The vast majority of North America’s surface freshwater falls within a border watershed. Indeed, contemporary water governance within just one country is already complex enough — overlaying...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 168-169
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Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870
A Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633) was published by command of King Charles I after Thomas James (c.1593-1635) returned from overwintering in James Bay. Dead by 1635, James had nothing to do with the founding...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 160-63
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Watara- Dori (Birds of Passage)
WATARA-DORI (Birds of Passage) is a biographical fiction of a half-year period (24 June 1915 to 1 January 1916) in the life of a Japanese-Canadian fisher. Mitsuo Yesaki has a thorough knowledge of the Pacific coast fisheries,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 120-1
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Atlas of Pacific Salmon
Journalist Timothy Egan once wrote that the Pacific Northwest “is wherever the salmon can get to.” As woefully provincial as he was, Egan unwittingly revealed the absence of an alternative way to regionalize the seven...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 116-8
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Edenbank: The Story of a Canadian Pioneer Farm
ALLEN WELLS, who came west from Upper Canada for the gold rush, stayed to farm, establishing Edenbank, one of the earliest and largest farms in the Chilliwack Valley. As new settlers arrived, he encouraged “the...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 142-4
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Royal City: A Photographic History of New Westminster, 1858-1960
Today, many residents of the Lower Mainland know New Westminster only as the site of traffic jams as they wait to get on to the Pattullo, the Queensborough, and Alex Fraser bridges; Highway 401; or...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 112-4
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Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
In Sailing with Vancouver, the late maritime writer Sam McKinney follows the path of Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 expedition through the Pacific Northwest’s inland waters. Part saltwater travelogue, part historical reflection, McKinney uses the region’s...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 151-153
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Trail North: The Okanagan Trail of 1858-68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington
In Trail North, Ken Mather directs our attention to a relatively forgotten part of British Columbian history: the trails linking the interior of British Columbia to the Columbia Plateau of Washington and their contribution to...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 188-189
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Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies
THIS COLLECTION of essays came out of a 1996 conference in Seattle that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Oregon Treaty, the agreement that largely fixed the boundary west of the Rocky Mountains between the...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 126-8
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Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell
Frank Swannell was a distinguished BC land surveyor whose career in the province extended from 1899, when he came west after completing a two-year course in mining engineering at the School of Practical Science at...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 131-2
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The Wheel Keeper
In The Wheel Keeper , first-time novelist Robert Pepper-Smith, an instructor at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has written an engaging and often enchanting tale that draws heavily on three generations of the...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1929-39
This is the third and final instalment in Jay Sherwood’s series about the work of provincial land surveyor Frank Swannell. It describes Swannell’s activities during the 1930s, including several seasons spent in areas of northern...