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Vancouver Anthology
During the 1960s things radically changed in the Canadian art world. Aesthetic categories expanded to include technically based video and multimedia performance art. Traditional art institutions competed with artist-run centres like The Sound Gallery and...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 170-72
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Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Secret Service is the first full-length narrative on security intelligence in Canada since Stan Horrall and Carl Betke’s 1978 official RCMP history, Canada’s Security Service: An Historical Outline, 1864-1966. This is a significant achievement for...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 231-233
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The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar’s groundbreaking work, The Punjabis in British Columbia, represents a significant addition to a number of fields. At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 240-242
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, by Anne Hyde is the second of six volumes scheduled to appear in the “History of the American West” series intended to reflect...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 226-227
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Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada
As recently as forty years ago, Sylvia Van Kirk sat in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives in London and asked a completely new question of the business papers of this iconic and long-standing company: “Where...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 175-177
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Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
In the second chapter of her powerful book, Mona Oikawa indicts the critical reception of well-known Japanese-Canadian representations of Internment. Readings of Muriel Kitagawa’s This is My Own, for example, have tended to “exceptionalize” it...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 237-238
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A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada
This is a book about people in small towns in the west, and the rodeos that have provided ways to negotiate their complex social, economic, and cultural relationships with each other and with the animals...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 189-191
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Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
Epidemics call out the ambulance-chaser in all of us, and for health historians, there is none more attention-grabbing than the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, mistakenly dubbed the “Spanish Flu,” the only infectious disease to stop the...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 183-184
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Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood
Vancouver’s Chinatown has been the subject of numerous notable academic studies, providing a focus that has proven to be essential to the Canadian historical narrative. In analyzing the history of Vancouver’s Chinatown, scholars have made...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 190-91
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The British Columbia Court of Appeal: The First Hundred Years, 1910-2010
A law court has an inner life, beyond the many outside lives that it can rescue, ruin, remedy and reward. When it is an appellate court, the urge to converge as group judgment replaces the...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 136-38
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Lillian Alling: The Journey Home
In 1929, Lillian Alling reached the coast of Alaska on her way to Siberia. Her three-year walk across North America began in New York City and ended at Cape Wales where her footsteps disappeared after...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 175-6
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Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West
Nayan Shah observes that historians get it wrong when they privilege permanent populations over transient, the nuclear family over other domestic arrangements, and polarized rather than various gender roles. He complains – fairly —...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 174-5
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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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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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A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War
When it comes to the history of women in wartime Canada, the Second World War has so far attracted the most attention from scholars. Perhaps surprisingly, given the otherwise-abundant scholarship on Canada’s Great War, those...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 183-84
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Whoever Gives us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
More than twenty years ago, Gabriele Scardellato lamented the dearth of attention to Italian Canadians living “beyond the frozen wastes” (Scardellato 1989). There have been modest advances since that time, including Patricia K. Wood’s Nationalism...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 160-62
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Rebel Women of the West Coast: Their Triumphs, Tragedies and Lasting Legacies
Rebel Women of the West Coast comprises stories about individual women who, through their talent, perseverance, and determination, were able to overcome patriarchal systems designed to keep them out of professional organizations. Author Rich Mole...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 164-66
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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...