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Rain Before Morning
In the spring of 1913, sisters Leah and Elspeth Jamieson, seventeen and eighteen years old, respectively, travel on the Union Steamship Comox from Vancouver past Halfmoon Bay and Pender Harbour to their parents’ home at...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 144-5
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Red Dog, Red Dog
Due to the strong tourism and leisure economy of British Columbia, the Okanagan Valley has become primarily associated with orchards, beaches, and, most recently, award-winning vineyards – in short, the Okanagan Valley is synonymous with...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 138-9
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Shoot!
George Bowering’s Shoot!, originally published in 1994, is based on the historical account of the murder of officer Johnny Ussher by the McLean Gang. Ostensibly, Shoot! is a western novel that revolves around the youthful...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 147
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Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia
Arv Olson’s second edition of Backspin expands readers’ acquaintance “with accounts of some of the people, places, and events” that shaped the 120 year history of golf in British Columbia (11). A journalist and golf...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 148-149
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Raising the Workers’ Flag: The Workers’ Unity League in Canada, 1930-1936
The struggle to build trade unions in the extractive and manufacturing industries of Canada — mining, forestry, fishing, clothing, furniture, and others — was meteoric and its demise equally rapid. Raising the Workers’ Flag provides...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 149-151
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The Spencer Mansion: A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s The Spencer Mansion, A House, a Home and an Art Gallery is, as the title suggests, really two books. One half considers the “life and times” of the five families who made...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 133-134
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Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific, Pacific Connections: The Making of the US-Canada Borderlands, Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952
Pacific Connections: The Making of the US-Canada Borderlands
Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858-1952
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Pages 128-131
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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century
The field of Canadian environmental history has blossomed over the past two decades. Consequently, instructors of Canadian environmental history courses are becoming increasingly spoiled with good options to choose from for course readers. In all...