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Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Canada’s best-known female literary writers from the 1930s are all closely associated with British Columbia: activist wordsmith Dorothy Livesay, then a member of the Communist Party, who first moved to Vancouver in 1936; Anne Marriott,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 117-8
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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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Bull of the Woods: The Gordon Gibson Story
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 53, Spring 1982
BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 70-1
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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 135-136
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Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London’s Sea Wolf
Anyone who has delved into the gripping, sometimes impregnable, but always complex world of pelagic fur sealing on the north Pacific Coast knows just what a challenge the history of that subject poses. Then, to...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 108-9
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Vancouver Ltd.
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 30, Summer 1976
BC Studies no. 30 Summer 1976 | Page(s) 86-9
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Pig War Islands
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 11, Autumn 1971
BC Studies no. 11 Autumn 1971 | Page(s) 70-2
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Vancouver Defended: A History of the Men and Guns of the Lower Mainland Defences, 1854-1949
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 38, Summer 1978
BC Studies no. 38 Summer 1978 | Page(s) 65-8
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Hamilton Mack Laing: Hunter-Naturalist
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 73, Spring 1987
BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 67-9
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The Rainbow Chasers
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 58, Summer 1983
BC Studies no. 58 Summer 1983 | Page(s) 74-6
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Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront 1919-1939
In Citizen Docker Andrew Parnaby explores industrial relations on the Vancouver waterfront during the interwar years. The analysis is linked to a broader consideration of the transition to the welfare state and the new industrial...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 139-141
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Gordon Shrum: An Autobiography
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 77, Spring 1998
BC Studies no. 77 Spring 1988 | Page(s) 77-9
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
MANY NORTH AMERICAN cities have had great civic leaders. Fiorello La Guardia, New York’s Depression-era mayor, is considered the father of modern New York; Metro chair Fred Gardiner put his distinctive imprint on Toronto in the...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 128-30
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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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Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia
John Calvert is a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, but this is not the kind of book one expects from an academic. It presents a conspiracy theory in which the sole purpose...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 162-4
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In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada
The issue of voice, its recuperation and responsible representation, has long ranked among Aboriginal history’s central concerns. In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada shares this commitment. Refuting...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 140-2
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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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Baxwbakwalanusiwa. Un recit Haisla/a Haisla story, raconte par/as told by Gordon Robertson
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 209-14
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Landscape Evaluation: Approaches and Applications
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 231-2
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Klondike Cattle Drive
Klondike Cattle Drive, Norman Lee’s account of his attempt to “make a few dollars” by driving his cattle north in 1898 to sell beef to the Klondike miners, was first published in 1960. This reprint...