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Finding Ft. George
One challenge of writing a poetry collection that centres around rural life is that the poet is automatically engaged with debates between centre and periphery, between the urban and the rural, and, in the case...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 145-7
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Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in English and Kwak’wala, opens The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, an exhibition on view...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139
Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt
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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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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash is an accessible, succinct narrative of George Vancouver’s life, focusing on the voyage he led into the Pacific in the late 18th century. Bown’s stated goal is to give Vancouver...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 135-6
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Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 107, Autumn 1995
BC Studies no. 107 Autumn 1995 | Page(s) 86-9
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From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 107, Autumn 1995
BC Studies no. 107 Autumn 1995 | Page(s) 83-5
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The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 119, Autumn 1998
BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 113-4
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To the Charlottes: George Dawson’s 1878 Survery of the Queen Charlotte Islands
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 108, Winter 1995/96
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What It Is to Be a Metis: The Stories and Recollections of the Elders of the Prince George Metis Society
PDF – Devine Review Essay – BC Studies 128, Winter 2000
BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 85-90
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The Journals of George M. Dawson: British Columbia, 1875-1878
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 85, Spring 1990
BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 64-6
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For Most Conspicuous Bravery: A Biography of Major-General George R. Pearkes, V.C., Through Two World Wars
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 36, Winter 1977
BC Studies no. 36 Winter 1977-1978 | Page(s) 47-49
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No Better Land: The 1860 Diaries of the Anglican Colonial Bishop George Hills
PDF – Edwards Review Essay – BC Studies 113, Spring 1997
BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Page(s) 101-5
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Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
THE TASK APPEARS straightforward – in this case, to read W.H. New’s monumental Encyclopedia ofLiterature in Canada for information on BC writing. There is, usefully, an entry on British Columbia (unsigned, meaning “written by New”):...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 108-12
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Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse
Presented as a discourse-centred approach to understanding landstory relations in Secwepemc experience, Maps of Experience provides candid and powerful insights into contemporary First Nations experiences. The book establishes a place for itself in the remarkable...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 115-7
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Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870
A Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633) was published by command of King Charles I after Thomas James (c.1593-1635) returned from overwintering in James Bay. Dead by 1635, James had nothing to do with the founding...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 160-63
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Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
In 1921 the Prince George Citizen reminded its readership that “central B.C. is not a new country” (Prince George Citizen 1921). Defining “central B.C.” as those parts of the province situated between the 52nd and...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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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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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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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
This is not the first nor will be it the last scholarly or non-scholarly work on the North West Company’s ill-fated “Columbia adventure,” an enterprise in frustration for the investors and participants, both by land...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 204-205
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Pinboy
Pinboy is a tender account of an adolescent penis growing up in the South Okanagan around 1950. Because it is attached to a gawky, bright, funny, boy who loved reading enough to carry cowboy novels...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 196-197
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A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
JAMES COLNETT will always remain a name of notoriety in world history for it is he who responded to Commandant Esteban Martinez’s demands and formalities at Nootka Sound in 1789 and started, so it is...