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Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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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 Freshwater Fishes of British Columbia
I have good reason to be eternally grateful to the author of this book on BC’s freshwater fishes. Many years ago in my first university post, when desperately seeking interesting material with which to enliven the...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 115-6
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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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Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion
In the spring of 2018, hundreds of people gathered between city hall and the public library in downtown Bellingham, Washington, to witness the dedication of a 10-ton granite “Arch of Reconciliation,” a monument to and...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 152-153
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Philip Timm’s Vancouver: 1900-1910
I first met Fred Thirkell in the late 1970s when I ran an antique store in North Vancouver. Fred was a postcard collector, and we played the familiar dance between buyer and seller in the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 154-6
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition
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. 132 Winter 2001-2002 | Page(s) 103-105
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Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past
This is a great time to be writing Aboriginal history. A decade of productive interplay between postcolonial studies, feminist analysis, and new methods of research has opened new interpretive pathways to historians of First Nations....
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 102-4
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Sharks of the Pacific Northwest: Including Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
Humans have instigated the generalized obliteration of large predators for centuries. The severe, routinely fatal penalty that sharks have paid appears to result in large part from social perspectives founded in fear and ignorance. From...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 190-1
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The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake
In recent years, the historiography of British Columbia has burgeoned. Much of this rich and growing scholarship focuses on the province as a whole, or on its urban centres. We still have much to learn...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157
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Fernie at War 1914-1919
Wayne Norton provides a fascinating story of a British Columbia resource town navigating its way through the tribulations of the Great War. In so doing, he adds to the small but growing body of works that...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 161-162
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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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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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Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence and the Settler Everyday in British Columbia
The history of colonial British Columbia is, in many respects, well-trodden ground. Over the past few decades, scholars like Jean Barman, Cole Harris, and Adele Perry have made multiple transformative contributions to our understanding of...
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Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr: a Biography
“Monkey Business: Emily Carr’s Woo” In 1923 Emily Carr sent her maid, Pearl, to Lucy Cowie’s pet shop in downtown Victoria. She gave the owner thirty dollars and one of Carr’s Griffon dogs in exchange...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 161-162
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The North-West Mounted Police, 1873-1885
In a wonderfully detailed and researched volume, Jack F. Dunn has created a study that is a worthy addition to Brendan and Horall’s Red Coats on the Prairiesand R.C. Macleod’s NWMP and Law Enforcement. Focusing...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 189-190
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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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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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The British Columbia Atlas of Child Development
It is not surprising that many ad vocates of social justice for marginalized children and their families in British Columbia, Canada, and beyond eventually suffer professional and personal “burn-out.” Work in this vein has been...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 118-21
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Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
IN ORGANIZING this collection of papers on late-period Northwest Coast archaeology, R.G. Matson, in his introduction to this edited volume, proposes to make Northwest Coast archaeology more visible in the literature alongside the prominent ethnographic...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 136-9
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Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals
In Healing in the Wilderness Bob Burrows recounts the origins and evolution of the medical missions established and maintained by the United Church and its antecedents in isolated communities across Canada. An ordained United Church...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
In Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse) Julie Rak refers to Doukhobors as “bad subjects,” drawing on a concept formulated by Louis Althusser to describe a people who “resist the institutions, laws, and beliefs that would make...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
PHOTOGRAPHS OCCUPY a paradoxical place in our historical imagination. As Carol J. Williams notes in the introduction to Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest, contemporary historians have primarily...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 118-20
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Vanishing British Columbia
Recently, while speeding along West Broadway on a Number 99 bus, the older gentleman sitting next to me mused that so many buildings have been demolished that young people would soon have no idea of...