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Far West: The Story of British Columbia
When I received this book by this popular and prolific writer, I thought it was a coffee table history of British Columbia. While Far West is large and glossy, I quickly realized that BC Studies...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 148-9
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Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
Race and the City approaches racism, politics, and space through a comparative case study of two umbrella ethno-cultural community organizations, one in Toronto and one in Los Angeles. Drawing from interviews with key individuals employed...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 193-4
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Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
This is an interesting and provocative book that will motivate readers to rethink the role of the state in directing and managing a multicultural society. Exalted Subjects is divided into a number of sections labelled...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 135-137
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The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
This sophisticated and engaging book has much to offer a number of scholarly areas, including Canadian history, gender studies, and political and legal studies. Working from a massive bedrock of diverse primary materials, Sarah Carter...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 125-127
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Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast: Their Biographies and Photographs
The term “Nikkei” has become prevalent in the last decade or two. Its broad definition is “people of Japanese descent and their descendants,” and includes those of mixed heritage. It assumes they have an interest...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 130-1
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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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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
POET, WRITER, storyteller, spokesperson, performer, actress, performance artist. Pauline Johnson is certainly the most public and popular writer that nineteenth-century Canada produced, and perhaps even the most public Canadian writer of the last century. Such...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 115-8
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Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974
A few exceptions aside, the remarkable escalation of books that have investigated British Columbia’s forests and forest economy in recent years have not paid much attention to labour. Yet labour’s role is vital to the evolution...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 155-7
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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
REGULATING LIVES adds to a rapidly growing body of work in Canadian legal history and in the history of moral regulation. The collection should be of great interest to historians of the family, gender, race...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 203-4
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Exploring Fort Vancouver
This fine volume is truly a “must” for those with more than a passing interest in the origins of the multi-ethnic area of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from the Aboriginal inhabitants to the eighteenth and...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 159-60
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Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada
Retail Nation is a thought-provoking study of the intersection between a rapidly growing consumer economy and the formation of culture and identity in Canada between 1890 and 1940. During this period, argues Donica Belisle, department...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 169-70
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The Legendary Betty Frank: The Cariboo’s Alpine Queen
As a young girl, Betty Cox (Frank) had some very non-traditional ideas of what she wanted to be when she grew up. She dreamed of riding horses, mushing dogs, and guiding hunters in the northern...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 133-34
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Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast
This generously illustrated exhibition catalogue introduces the work of forty contemporary First Nations artists, ranging from emerging practitioners such as Shawn Hunt and Alano Edzerza to internationally renowned individuals such as Robert Davidson and Susan...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 132-133
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Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians: West Coast Legends and Stories, Part 11 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts
What do the stories of lineage significance say about the people who tell them? What is culturally salient to the tellers of the stories? What is culturally salient to the hearers of the stories, be...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 99-101
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Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver
Mike Davis claims that ours is a time when the lived geographies of privilege and marginality intersect with an ever-diminishing regularity [1]. If he is right, then critical urban research that attempts to understand how new...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 146-149
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Missing Women, Missing News: Covering Crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
In a publication coincident with the launch of the inquiry into the police investigation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, David Hugill’s Missing Women, Missing News poses a vital and timely challenge to common-sense frames...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 181-183
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Early in the Season: A British Columbia Journal
In the summer of 1968, aspiring American novelist Edward Hoagland spent seven weeks in the BC bush, interviewing locals, listening to stories, exploring highways and byways, and chronicling his experiences. He was gathering material for...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 145-6
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Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects & Journeys
NUU-CHAH-NULTH VOICES, Histories, Objects &Journeys is an anthology produced to complement Out of the Mist: HuupuKwanum—Tupaat, Treasure of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs, an exhibition mounted in April 2000 by the Royal British Columbia Museum in conjunction with...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 123-4
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Spying on Canadians: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War
Spying on Canadians opens with the goal of adding “to the political demands for a new commitment for a transparency in national security appropriate to our purportedly democratic society.” (9) It is a principled point. Describing...
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Asian Canadian Studies Reader
This collection of essays is an integral part of American-modelled activism to establish a collective scholarly field for Asian Canadians beyond national boundaries. Such trials, as the editors argue, have already been initiated, for example,...
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The Miracle Mile: Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
The Miracle Mile written by Jason Beck, the curator at the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, is a masterfully constructed narrative of the first truly international event in British Columbia sport history. The 1954...