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Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 97, Spring 1993
BC Studies no. 97 Spring 1993 | Page(s) 84-7
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Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
The cover of this atlas is engaging [1]. The muted grey, black, and red jacket offers an intriguing bird’s-eye view of Vancouver in 1912, looking west from New Westminster to Stanley Park. The heavy antique...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 123-6
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Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891
One of the most unexpected conse quences of the systematic social history undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s was a profound rethinking of its initial focus on industrialization and urbanization as the central features of...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 106-7
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The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
In their recent edited collection, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005), Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton call for a renewed focus on gender as a category of historical analysis, positioning “the...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 104-5
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A Brush with Life
A Brush with Life narrates the career of John Koerner, a Czechborn artist who has worked in Vancouver for over sixty years. He taught painting and drawing in the city from 1953 to 1962 and...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 132-4
Book Review
Theatre in British Columbia
Theatre in British Columbia consists of eighteen articles by academics and artists who explore plays, playwrights, and/or productions that reflect theatre within the Province of British Columbia. This important book is Volume 6 in the...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 125-7
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Switchbacks: Art, Ownership and Nuxalk National Identity
Jennifer Kramer’s book describes some recent negotiations of public representation and the incipient construction of national identity through the disposition of works of art by the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. This book...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 117-20
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Street Names of Vancouver
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999
BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 103-4
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Vancouver’s Society of Italians
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999
BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 105-7
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The Hotel Georgia: A Vancouver Tradition
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999
BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 107-9
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Paldi Remembered: 50 Years in the Life of a Vancouver Island Logging Town
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 119, Autumn 1998
BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 110-1
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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
This book is a self-confessed labour of love, and it took the authors twenty-five years working in their spare time to complete it. Beautifully produced and reasonably priced, it has over 1,700 original colour photographs...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 103-4
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In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
As the trial of the serial killer ac cused of murdering women from the Downtown Eastside continues, the Woodward’s building on Hastings Street is turned into luxury condominiums, and the 2010 Olympics draw closer, the...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 101-2
Book Review
Jean Coulthard: A Life in Music
William Bruneau and David Duke’s Jean Coulthard is a long overdue tribute to an artist and teacher whose career in Vancouver spanned more than seven decades. Composer, pianist, and music educator, Jean Coulthard (1908–2000) was...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 96-7
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Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
In 1999 a small group of Salt Spring Island activists decided to mark the coming millennium by inventorying and mapping the unique resources of their island home. Inspired by bioregional writing and mapping projects in...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 94-6
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Musqueam Reference Grammar
The late Wayne Suttles’s monu mental Musqueam Reference Grammar fo cuses on the language of the Mus queam people of the lower Fraser River, speakers of a Downriver dialect of the language known to linguists...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 91-4
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Undelievered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
In Undelivered Letters, editors Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss provide a voice for those North American fur trade people usually thought to be voiceless. This publication of over 200 undelivered letters to men who...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 129-30
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Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point
Jean Barman brings clarity to a long misunderstood part of the early history of Vancouver and British Columbia. Building upon earlier re-search on Stanley Park by William C. McKee (Urban History Review 3 [1978]), Robert...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 113-5
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Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Dream City. The title is captivating, but what does it mean? Lance Berelowitz’s book about changes in the urban design and planning of Vancouver opens and closes by briefly discussing the phrase “dream city,” but...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 107-9
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Murder in the Monashees: A Mystery
Russell Montgomery, an office worker from Vancouver, has come to the Monashee Mountains for one week in the hope of shooting a mule deer stag. Through his scope, he fixes a buck, seventy-five yards away....
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 134-6
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Danger, Death and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902-28
The Crowsnest Pass coal-mining communities serve as the backdrop for Karen Buckley’s study of danger, death, and disaster. Her objective is to examine personal and community responses to death and to “gain a clearer understanding...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 129-31
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High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The commercial salmon fishery has recently inspired a spate of books on the fading of the salmon industry. This volume fits into that literature. Among its special virtues are its basis in a specific area...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 127-8
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Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
According to Patricia Wood, ethnic studies in Canada – or at least the study of Italian immigrants and their descendants – is at best a marginal or fringe activity in the Canadian academy. She complains,...