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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...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 155-157
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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,...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
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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...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 154-155
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Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast
The sea draws many, to many destinies. Even those of us who are landlocked remain drawn due to history, biology or too much reading. This book offers the stories of 24 women (25 including the...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 184-185
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Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir
Chasing Smoke is a memoir centered on Aaron Williams’ account of being a wildland firefighter in British Columbia during the 2014 fire season. Williams managed fire as a Telkwa Ranger, a wildland firefighter at the Telkwa...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 150-151
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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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The Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
Veronica Strong-Boag is one of Canada’s most distinguished women’s historians. One of the major themes of her publishing career has been Canadian women’s struggle for the vote. Strong-Boag’s expertise in the field is very much...
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On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 205-206
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Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse
In Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse, Lisa Smith transports the reader to late nineteenth century Pacific Northwest and evocatively offers a history of an extraordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Born in...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 186-7
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The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast
As a study of missionary imperialism, Mary-Ellen Kelm’s edition of the letters Margaret Butcher wrote from Kitamaat between 1916 and 1919 makes an important contribution to historical conversations about the Haisla, missionaries, and residential schools...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 152-4
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British Columbia: Land of Promises
This delightful book is Volume 5 of Oxford University Press’s six-volume Illustrated History of Canada. As the authors note in the introduction, the series is “uniquely Canadian” because the volumes are not shaped by chronology...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 111-3
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Theatre in British Columbia
Theatre in British Columbia consists of eighteen articles by academics and artists who explore plays, playwrights, and/or productions that reflect theatre within the Province of British Columbia. This important book is Volume 6 in the...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 125-7
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Pioneer Jews of British Columbia
Pioneer Jews of British Columbia is a compilation of articles that first appeared in two journals, Western States Jewish History and The Scribe, dealing with Jewish settlement in British Columbia in the nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 134-5
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Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
According to Patricia Wood, ethnic studies in Canada – or at least the study of Italian immigrants and their descendants – is at best a marginal or fringe activity in the Canadian academy. She complains,...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 123-7
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Building Community in an Instant Town: A Social Geography of Mackenzie and Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia
BRITISH COLUMBIA’S single-industry communities that lie outside the province’s heartland of the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island have experienced a dreadful pummelling over the last quarter century. Because of technological change, alterations in labour...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 128-9
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Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
The publication of Xiaoping Li’s Voices Rising is a rare literary event, a cause for celebration. Through its analysis of the social and cultural movements of Asian Canada, especially in Vancouver and Toronto, her work...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 139-41
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Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell
FEW BOOK JACKETS are as striking as the one that graces Jim Philips and Rosemary Gartner’s text. Bale-fully staring back at the viewer is a prison photograph of Franz Creffield, who bears an uncanny resemblance...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 131-3
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The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
WRITING IN Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534 (University of Toronto Press, 1984, 250) of seventeenth-century Jesuit missions to the Huron, John Webster Grant quoted a Huron man...