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Making the News: A Times Colonist Look at 150 Years of History
Dave Obee states in the introduction to this book that his purpose is to “give you glimpses of the people and events that shaped our community and our province” (1). In this goal, Obee succeeds...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 135-6
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Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
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Canada’s Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
The editors of Canada’s Entrepreneurs assembled this book to appeal to a wide variety of Canadian readers (including non-academics), to inspire instructors to incorporate more business history into their courses, and to showcase the Dictionary...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 160-1
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Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy’s Account of the Bedaux Expedition
Two thousand and nine marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Bedaux expedition, the failed attempt of Charles Bedaux to cross the wilderness of northern British Columbia in five half-track Citroën vehicles supported by a host...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 142-3
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Living Proof: The Essential Data-Collection Guide for Indigenous Use-and-Occupancy Map Surveys
Do maps speak for themselves? Terry Tobias insists that indigenous land use and occupancy maps must speak loudly and clearly, and he demonstrates that they can if rigorous research and methodological standards are followed. Tobias...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 143-145
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Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Discussion of land governance and land administration matters on Indian Act reserves in Canada has persisted for several decades. There is a general consensus that the lands have been poorly managed by a federal department...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 103-105
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Canada and Asia: Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999
BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 109-110
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The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity and Quality of Life in Western Canada
The Last Best West is an eclectic collection of chapters based loosely on the meaning and mythology of the advertising slogan used by the Canadian government around the turn of the twentieth century to attract...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 110-2
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Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
The first edition of Go Do Some Great Thing was indeed a “first” in 1978. No book-length survey of the subject then existed, and Kilian’s volume was welcomed as an opportunity for British Columbians to...
BC Studies no. 40 Winter 1978-1979 | Page(s) 86-91
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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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One Native Life
For much of his life, Richard Wagamese has searched for a sense of belonging and struggled to find his identity as an indigenous person living in Canada. In One Native Life, Wagamese shares an intimate...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 208-9
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Gold Dust on His Shirt: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Family
British Columbia produces an astounding number of works on non-British immigrants on the west coast. Many recent books, such as Voices Raised in Protest (2008), The Triumph of Citizenship (2007), Nikkei Fishermen on the BC...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 142-3
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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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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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Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920
It took a mountain of labour to write this book, but the result is a molehill of meaningful history. This is the second volume of Ian McKay’s planned multi-volume history of the left in Canada,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 122-127
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Legacy in Wood: The Wahl Family Boat Builders
For almost half a century, the Wahl family boatyard near Prince Rupert produced high-quality wooden boats for the coastal fishing fleet. Founded by Norwegian immigrant Ed Wahl after the First World War, the boatyard built...