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Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology, vol.4
This is a rich, edited volume on the anthropology of the North Pacific. It was produced following a 1997 conference held in New York at the American Museum of Natural History (amnh), which celebrated the centenary...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 110-12
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From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919
While the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War unfolds with little or no fanfare, it is appropriate to consider an even more forgotten Canadian military adventure: the Canadian Siberian Expedition to the Russian port...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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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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The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay’s 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies
In 1914, Samuel Prescott Fay (1884- 1971), a Harvard graduate from Boston, ventured twelve hundred kilometres through the northern Rockies from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope. While the Harvard Travelers Club deferred exploration in the...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 137-38
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British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years
James D. Anderson’s British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years is a tribute to the first century of the Provincial Park system in BC. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history, sensitive to ongoing...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 134-5
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Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
In 2002, the National Maritime Museum in London published Captain Cook in the Pacific, introduced by Glyn Williams, with the succeeding chapters written by Nigel Rigby and Pieter van der Merwe. The present book by...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 135-7
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Through an Unknown Country: The Jarvis-Hanington Winter Expedition through the Northern Rockies, 1874-1875
This miscellany of writings, chiefly by two civil engineers who for parts of their careers toiled as railway surveyors, aims to carve out a prominent place for them in the history of Canada. Ed Jarvis...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 212-214
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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1902
PDF – Wickwire Review Essay, BC Studies 138/139, Summer/Autumn 2003
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 165-72
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Juan Perez on the Northwest Coast: Six Documents of his Expedition in 1774
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 88, Winter 1990/91
BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 95-7
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Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 85, Spring 1990
BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 62-4
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Alaskan Voyage. 1881-1883. An Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 37, Spring 1978
BC Studies no. 37 Spring 1978 | Page(s) 60-2
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Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
In Sailing with Vancouver, the late maritime writer Sam McKinney follows the path of Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 expedition through the Pacific Northwest’s inland waters. Part saltwater travelogue, part historical reflection, McKinney uses the region’s...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 151-153
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The First Russian Voyage Around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern (1803-1806)
THE RUSSIAN VOYAGE around the world (1803-06) recounted in this journal by the fourth officer and cartographer of the expedition’s flagship, the Nadezhda (Hope), is noteworthy on several counts. It was the country’s maiden circumnavigation...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 137-8
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Uncharted Waters: The Explorations of José Narváez (1768–1840)
Jim McDowell’s Uncharted Waters: The Explorations of José Narváez is a comprehensive examination of one of the most important and overlooked explorers of the Pacific Coast during the late eighteenth century. McDowell traces Narváez’s long career from his...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 158-159
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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...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 131-132
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Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880
Biographies of historical figures of the second rank often supply the foundational material and needed contextual support upon which larger studies are based. That certainly promises to be the case with this highly engaging and...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 183-185
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Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
IT WAS WITH SOME excitement and a little trepidation that I agreed to review Bill Miller’s book. First of all, my father, George Ball, was a Yukon Telegraph Line operator in the early years; and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown
Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164
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Cornelius O’Keefe: the Life, Loves, and Legacy of an Okanagan Rancher
Cornelius O’Keefe was one of a small group of pioneer Okanagan ranchers who managed, in the late nineteenth century, to accumulate land, wealth, and influence. His rags-to-riches story was made possible by a combination of...
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A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday
In late December 1923, North Vancouver mountaineers Don and Phyllis Munday lived with their twoyear- old daughter in a canvas tent near the summit of Grouse Mountain. They were building a cabin and digging their...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 142-4
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Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations is a thorough treatment of a significant subject in BC history. Lutz has examined the history of exchanges of things, labour, and ideas between Aboriginal peoples and immigrants...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 133-4
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
The Horticultural Society of London demanded that David Douglas (1799-1834), their employee and North American plant hunter, keep a meticulous journal of his travels. Certainly a better field naturalist than author, Douglas refused to let...