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Vancouver Voters, 1886: A Biographical Dictionary
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 90-1
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Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver
Feather boas and glamorous stage shows, breast implants and stripper poles: these images of postwar Vancouver nightlife in Burlesque West reflect the contradictory cultural status of striptease. Although striptease was defined by various experts as...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 162-164
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Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958
Historiography may seem like a dry, pedantic exercise that would only attract a handful of readers. Add to that the seeming lack of history that the subject of British Columbia suggests. But a recent addition...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 103-5
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Private Grief, Public Mourning: The Rise of the Roadside Shrine in BC
Typically involving a cross and some flowers, the roadside memorials located along British Columbia’s highways catch the passing motorist’s attention and instantly raise a series of questions about death and mourning. Who died there? How...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 112-3
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The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada
Theorists of modernity have often been particularly blind to the roles of gender. In numerous otherwise thought-provoking theoretical works on modernity, gender either disappears from the analysis or is treated awkwardly. Historians, to a degree,...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 117-9
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Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians: West Coast Legends and Stories, Part 11 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts
What do the stories of lineage significance say about the people who tell them? What is culturally salient to the tellers of the stories? What is culturally salient to the hearers of the stories, be...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 99-101
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Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography
THE TWO THINGS about Ethel Wilson’s writing that David Stouck emphasizes in his critical biography are her ability to evoke a sense of place and her great reverence for “the English sentence.” Anyone would think...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 108-9
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A Review of Storyeum in Vancouver’s Historic/Touristic of Gastown
PDF – Stanley Review Essay, BC Studies 145, Spring 2005
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 103-6
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Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City’s Secrets
This is a colourful guidebook to the archaeology of Victoria, both with regard to pre-contact Northwest Coast Aboriginal peoples and of the extremely varied inhabitants of postcontact Victoria. It ranges from a three thousand-year-old wet...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 116-7
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Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Canada’s best-known female literary writers from the 1930s are all closely associated with British Columbia: activist wordsmith Dorothy Livesay, then a member of the Communist Party, who first moved to Vancouver in 1936; Anne Marriott,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 117-8
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Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place
In the two generations since the first postmodern attempts to create a pan-cultural literature of place on the Pacific Coast, the context of landscape writing in British Columbia has been radically transformed. The environmental movement...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 210-12
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The Law of the Land: The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
In recent years both imperial historians and colonial legal historians have begun turning their attention to the networks at play within the British Empire and the transmission of information and ideas within the imperial system.[1]...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 143-5
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Matt and Jenny in Old Vancouver
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987
BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 53-4
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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...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 120-122
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Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London’s Sea Wolf
Anyone who has delved into the gripping, sometimes impregnable, but always complex world of pelagic fur sealing on the north Pacific Coast knows just what a challenge the history of that subject poses. Then, to...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 108-9
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Vancouver’s Svenskar: A History of the Swedish Community in Vancouver
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 8, Winter 1970