Index

Early in the Season: A British Columbia Journal

In the summer of 1968, aspiring American novelist Edward Hoagland spent seven weeks in the BC bush, interviewing locals, listening to stories, exploring highways and byways, and chronicling his experiences. He was gathering material for...

Review by Jonathan Peyton

BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 145-6

Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

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Review by Irving Abella

BC Studies no. 49 Spring 1981 | Page(s) 102-103

The Legacy of the Nuxalk Food and Nutrition Program for the Food Security, Health, and Well-Being of Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia

By Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Karen Fediuk, Charles Nelson, Elizabeth Howard, Suzanne Johnson

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 159-187

aboriginal people Bella Coola people Nuxalk food and nutrition

“Chinks Pay Heavily for ‘Hitting Pipe'”: The Perception and Enforcement of Canada’s New Drug Laws in Rural and Northern British Columbia, 1908-30

By Yvan Prkachin

BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 73-105

liquor and drugs chinese legislation

“The Wondrous Story and Traditions of the Country”: The Native Sons of British Columbia and the Role of Myth in the Formation of an Urban Middle Class

By Forrest D. Pass

BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 3-38

heritage Identities Sexuality

Plant Management Systems of British Columbia’s First People

By Dana Lepofsky, Douglas Deur, Nancy J. Turner

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 107-133

ethnobotany aboriginal culture agriculture aquaculture plant management

“Families that Pray Together, Stay Together”: Religion, Gender, and Family in Postwar Victoria, British Columbia

By Tina Block

BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 31-54

education Identities Sexuality religion Victoria

“The Park…Is a Mess”: Development and Degradation in British Columbia’s First Provincial Park

By Graeme Wynn, Arn Keeling

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 119-150

mining natural resources parks and reserves conservation Buttle Lake Strathcona Park

Situating Vancouver Island in the British World, 1846-49

By Jeremy Mouat

BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 5-30

colonization Hudson's Bay Company Vancouver Island

Becoming British Columbia: A Population History

If Canada, as William Lyon Mackenzie King once quipped, has too much geography, John Belshaw might well reply that Canadian historiography has too little demography. Regional historical writing, including that found in British Columbia, has...

Review by Forrest Pass

BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 120-122

Sacred Daemons: Exploring British Columbian Society’s Perceptions of “Mentally Deficient” Children , 1870-1930

By Nic Clarke

BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 61-89

education health children

Interrupted Relations: The Adoption of Children in Twentieth-Century British Columbia

By Veronica Strong-Boag

BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 5-30

aboriginal people children legislation

Surveying Central British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1920-28

In Surveying Central British Columbia, Jay Sherwood offers us the second instalment of the exploits of provincial surveyor Frank Swannell, who spent nine seasons creating and connecting a survey network in the Upper Nechako country...

Review by Frank Leonard

BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 131-132

Seeking Balance: Conversations with BC Women in Politics

BC women have made important gains in electoral politics over the past century. In the national context, British Columbia has led the way, being the first province to elect a female premier, the first to...

Review by Tina Block

BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 132-133

“You Have to Think Like a Man and Act Like a Lady”: Businesswomen in British Columbia, 1920-80

By Melanie Buddle

BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 69-95

business Identities Sexuality women

Fort St. James and New Caledonia: Where British Columbia Began

Many residents of British Columbia are probably unaware that the settler history of the province began not in the Fraser Valley but in New Caledonia, the north-central interior, a result not of the explorations of...

Review by William Morrison

BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 107-8

Group Identity in an Emigrant Worker Community: The Example of Sikhs in early Twentieth-Century British Columbia

By Hugh Johnston

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 3-23

immigration labour force India

Women in the Industrial Labour Force: Evidence for British Columbia, 1921-53

By Eric W. Sager

BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 39-62

labour force Identities Sexuality women

Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper and the Political Culture of British Columbia, 1903-1924

By Robert A.J. McDonald

BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 63-86

politics Provincial Party

Ladies and Escorts: Gender Segregation and Public Policy in British Columbia Beer Parlours, 1925-1945

By Robert A. Campbell

BC Studies no. 105-106 Spring-Summer 1995 | Page(s) 119-138

liquor and drugs Identities Sexuality sexuality public policy

Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia

By Michiko Midge Ayukawa

BC Studies no. 105-106 Spring-Summer 1995 | Page(s) 103-18

immigration Identities Sexuality women japanese people

The Concentration of Timber Holdings in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1972

By M.R. McLeod

BC Studies no. 17 Spring 1973 | Page(s) 57-68

forestry

The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation

This ambitious book takes up the daunting challenge of surveying Canada’s evolution from the 1500s to the 1870s. Cole Harris’ long and distinguished career as a historical geographer with exceptionally wide-ranging interests provide him with...

Review by Allan Greer

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 125- 7

The Supreme Law and the Grand Law: Changing Significance of Customary Law for Aboriginal Women of British Columbia

By Jo-Anne Fiske

BC Studies no. 105-106 Spring-Summer 1995 | Page(s) 183-199

customary law women aboriginal people law