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Passing Through Missing Pages: The Intriguing Story of Annie Garland Foster
In the early 1990s, author Frances Welwood agreed to research the life of Annie Garland Foster for a Nelson Museum exhibition, “The Women of Nelson, 1880-1950.” An early woman graduate of the University of New...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 188-89
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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
Westward Bound is a work of remarkable scope and depth. Covering the period from 1886 to 1940, Lesley Erickson uses records from local courts, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the North West Mounted Police...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 174-75
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Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts
Telling It To The Judge and Oral History On Trial tackle the problematic reception by Canadian courts of ethno-history and oral history presented by First Nations and their experts. However, Arthur Ray and Bruce Miller...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 175-77
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Canada’s Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
Canada’s Road to the Pacific War examines the role of intelligence in Canadian strategic planning during the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Drawing on archival resources in Canada, Britain, and the United...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 184-86
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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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Raincoast Chronicles 21: West Coast Wrecks and Other Maritime Tales
Tales of shipwrecks along British Columbia’s coast have focused on adventure and tragedy since the fur trade era. With marine transportation occupying such an important role in our daily lives, it is remarkable that so...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 186-87
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Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered
Helen Piddington’s Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered is a collection of 117 brief reminiscences of the author’s childhood on southern Vancouver Island during the Depression and World War Two. Born in 1931, Piddington was...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 152-53
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Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
This is a groundbreaking book in Chinese Canadian History and in the history of the global Chinese diaspora. It challenges conventional perceptions of Chinese relations with the mainstream society in Canada during the historical era...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 147-48
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Victoria: Crown Jewel of British Columbia, Including Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich and the Peninsula
This book claims to be a “multi-faceted photo-essay” which combines historical detail with compelling narrative to provide the visitor with new insights into the many wonders of Victoria and its environs. As an extra bonus,...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 150-51
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After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
It has been three years since we have seen a major critical monograph published in the field of black Canadian cultural studies. The last was Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Wood’s significant edited collection, Black Geographies...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 147-9
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These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community
In the summer of 1968, my grandmother would sometimes take my young aunt and uncle to the northern bank of the outflow of the Fraser River to dig for “Indian treasure” at the Marpole Midden....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 125-7
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition 3rd Edition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 132-3
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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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Searching for a Seaport: with the 1870s CPR Explorer Surveyors on the Coast of British Columbia
While researching Surveying Central British Columbia I learned that in the 1920s Frank Swannell found evidence several times of the Canadian Pacific Railway surveys which had been made through the Tweedsmuir and Chilcotin areas a...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 123-24
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The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
If I understand the author’s intentions, the aim of this work is to explain how the west – that is, the continental interior of North America south of Hudson Bay, beyond the Great Lakes, and...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 127-8
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Voices from Two Rivers: Harnessing the Power of the Peace and Columbia
Voices from Two Rivers explores WAC Bennett’s “Two Rivers” policy of hydroelectric development on the Peace and Columbia rivers from 1962 to 1985. Clearly written and based on extensive research into academic and archival sources,...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 135-6
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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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The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
On 23 January 2010 the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia celebrated completion of its ambitious $55.5 million “Partnership of Peoples” renewal project. The expansion included the MOA Centre for Cultural Research,...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 131-132
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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...