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Discovering Totem Poles: A Traveller’s Guide
This well-illustrated and modest in size guidebook presents totem poles that a tourist could see on a trip from Seattle, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska. The focus in not on totem poles as art objects displaying...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 170-171
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The Cannibal Spirit
Harry Whitehead’s novel The Cannibal Spirit fictionalizes one of the most important figures in the history of BC anthropology, Franz Boas’s long-time collaborator George Hunt. With many points of reference to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 114-15
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Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy
The heart of this work, and its raison d’être, is the report of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, dated 2 February 1793 at San Blas, Mexico. This document is not a diary or...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 155-7
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Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story
As one Daily Province journalist put it in 1916, “to write an article about English Bay without referring to Joe Fortes, would be like Hamlet without the Prince” (118). For nearly forty years the legendary...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 172-4
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The Education of an Innocent: An Autobiography by E.R. “Ernie” Forbes
Why should BC Studies review the autobiography of E.R. “Ernie” Forbes, a leading historian of Maritime Canada? The answer is that several years in Victoria helped him to confirm his ideas about the importance of...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 193-94
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The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
For this fourth volume in his series on the Literary History of British Columbia, Alan Twigg has set himself the impossible task of selecting 150 “Great B.C. Books and Authors,” designated as...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 166-68
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Feeding the Family: 100 Years of Food and Drink in Victoria
Until the later decades of the past century, historical writing was by men, about men, and for men. Narratives of the past made room for a queen, and the odd Laura Secord or Florence Nightingale,...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 139-140
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Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
Until the later decades of the past century, historical writing was by men, about men, and for men. Narratives of the past made room for a queen, and the odd Laura Secord or Florence Nightingale,...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 128-9
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Quiet Reformers: The Legacy of Early Victoria’s Bishop Edward and Mary Cridge
Edward and Mary Cridge’s life in Victoria began in 1855, when the Hudson’s Bay Company’s James Douglas still reigned supreme. By the time Edward died in 1913 the most significant sign of the HBC in...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 151-52
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The Private Journal of Captain G. H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862)
Captain (later Admiral Sir) George Henry Richards, Royal Navy, is one of the great personages of that unique era in modern history known as Pax Britannica – a period when “Britain Ruled the Waves,” and sometimes, as...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 119-23
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Imagining British Columbia: Land, Memory & Place
Imagining British Columbia: Land, Memory and Place, edited by Daniel Francis, is a collection of twenty creative non-fiction essays contributed by members of the Federation of British Columbia Writers. The federation invited writers to submit...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 149-150
Book Review
Whitewater Devils: Adventure on Wild Waters
With Whitewater Devils, retired forestry worker Jack Boudreau has written his eighth book of adventurous tales. Set mostly in British Columbia, Whitewater Devils – while not his best work – is an interesting complement...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 160
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The Box
Following the reissue of George Bowering’s Burning Water in 2007 and Shoot! in 2008, New Star continues its dedication to local authors with the publication of Bowering’s The Box in 2009. Promoted as a “series...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 146-7
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Mountains So Sublime: Nineteenth-Century British Travellers and the Lure of the Rocky Mountain West
Mountains So Sublime is a thoughtful study of the reactions of Victorian British travellers to the Rocky Mountain West, as expressed through their published travelogues and unpublished diaries and reminiscences. Recently retired from a long...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 128-30
Book Review
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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Profit and Ambition, The North West Company and the Fur Trade 1779-1821
This booklet was published to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s current exhibition (by the same name), which ends 6 February 2011. It is more than just a catalogue because, in addition to the superb...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 155-156
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
The Horticultural Society of London demanded that David Douglas (1799-1834), their employee and North American plant hunter, keep a meticulous journal of his travels. Certainly a better field naturalist than author, Douglas refused to let...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 101
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Making the News: A Times Colonist Look at 150 Years of History
Dave Obee states in the introduction to this book that his purpose is to “give you glimpses of the people and events that shaped our community and our province” (1). In this goal, Obee succeeds...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 135-6
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Canada’s Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
The editors of Canada’s Entrepreneurs assembled this book to appeal to a wide variety of Canadian readers (including non-academics), to inspire instructors to incorporate more business history into their courses, and to showcase the Dictionary...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 160-1
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Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy’s Account of the Bedaux Expedition
Two thousand and nine marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Bedaux expedition, the failed attempt of Charles Bedaux to cross the wilderness of northern British Columbia in five half-track Citroën vehicles supported by a host...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 142-3
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Living Proof: The Essential Data-Collection Guide for Indigenous Use-and-Occupancy Map Surveys
Do maps speak for themselves? Terry Tobias insists that indigenous land use and occupancy maps must speak loudly and clearly, and he demonstrates that they can if rigorous research and methodological standards are followed. Tobias...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 143-145
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Canada and Asia: Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999
BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 109-110
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