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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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Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
Anyone with even the most superficial knowledge of eugenics, racism, the ‘domestication’ of women, and the history of the 20th century will know why pronatalism might ring the wrong bells. And this is setting aside...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 194-6
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The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers: A History of Yukon River Steam Navigation.
Paddle-driven, stern-wheeled river steamboats evolved on the Ohio River in the 1830s into the form they would keep for the next 100 years, enabling them to serve everywhere in the vast Mississippi River basin and...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 206-207
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Canadian Counterculture and the Environment
Contemporary environmental debate owes a lot to the counterculture movements of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. This is one of the main contentions of Canadian Countercultures and the Environment, the fourth book published under the...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 159-161
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Bringing Water to Victoria: An Illustrated History, 1843-1915
Little is as intimate and political as the water that flows from city taps. We fill our bodies with it, we wash our babies in it. Many of us depend on the state to provide...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 160-161
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Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember
If, as Adele Perry suggests, history is cacophony, then the opening of Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) in September 2014 was bound to be discordant. Camped outside the CMHR, Anishinaabe from Shoal Lake...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 161-162
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Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs
Alison Bain, an associate professor of geography at York University, begins Creative Margins with David Gordon and Mark Janzen’s assertion that “Canada is a suburban nation (3),” noting that our population, like that of the...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 215-216
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Local Self-Government and the Right to the City
Warren Magnusson’s reputation is secure as one of Canada’s leading political theorists, and Local Self-Government and the Right to the City offers us what he says is “probably… [his] last book” (viii). As such, it...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 207-210
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Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age of Travel
The Canadian Pacific Railway’s travel literature boasts marvellous scenery, adventure, and extravagance. “You shall see mighty rivers, vast forest, boundless plains, stupendous mountains and wonders innumerable, and you shall see in all in comfort, nay...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 139-140
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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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The Literary Storefront: The Glory Years: Vancouver’s Literary Centre 1978-1985
Few bookstores figure prominently in modern literary history. Shakespeare and Company in Paris, once frequented by Joyce, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, and City Lights in San Francisco, made famous by Ginsberg and Kerouac, are shrines...
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Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
The cover and larger format pages of this handsomely produced book are drear images of demolition in the older inner suburbs of Vancouver. An array are pictured on the back cover rather in the manner...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 157-160
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Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order
Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order aims to give voice to street-based sex workers in urban Canada, in particular Indigenous women who face intersecting stigma associated with sex work, racism, and...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 177-179
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Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, Third Edition
Home, Work, and Play is a reader designed for university or college students studying Canadian social history. The editors have put together a diverse collection that can be used at any level from a second...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 165-166
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Innocence on Trial: The Framing of Ivan Henry
When Ivan Henry’s wife Jessie contacted Vancouver Police Department (VPD) detectives in 1982, she initiated a series of events that would see her husband spend the next twenty-seven years in prison for crimes he maintained...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 173-174
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Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
Eve Lazarus’s fascination with Vancouver’s history continues with her latest book, Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders. Crime buffs and readers interested in true crime literature or in understanding how police investigate...