Index

One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests

One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...

Review by Chris Clarkson

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30

Canada’s Rights Revolution, Social Movements and Social Change

I am not as confident as is Dominique Clément that “the vast majority of Canadians instinctively see human rights as an inherent good” (9). It might be true that most of us value civil liberties, at...

Review by Shirley Tillotson

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 130-2

Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849- 1925

Landing Native Fisheries is an important contribution to the history of fisheries and a good companion to Harris’ Fish, Law, and Colonialism (2001). This is a serious study that demonstrates conclusively that dispossession of Aboriginal...

Review by Frank Tough

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 138-40

Reena: A Father’s Story

There will be few people in British Columbia who are unfamiliar with Reena Virk’s name. In Reena: A Father’s Story, Manjit Virk tries to give what, in his view, is a more accurate depiction of...

Review by Margaret Wright

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 144-5

Nechako Country: In the Footsteps of Bert Irvine

This personal history is written in concise and readable prose. It is an account of the life of Bert Irvine, an oil worker, soldier, carpenter, trapper, and wilderness guide who chose to live close to nature....

Review by James Tirrul-Jones

BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 145-6

Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941

Yi Fao: Speaking through Memory: A History of New Westminster's Chinese Community, 1858-1980

Review by Jacqueline Gresko

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Pages 195-6

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...

Review by Marie Elliott

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3

The Politics of Voting: Reforming Canada’s Electoral System

The audience for The Politics of Voting is likely an informed public that is grappling with the arguments for and against electoral reform in Canada. In this book, Dennis Pilon has two goals, each of...

Review by Harold Jansen

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 205-6

Indian Petroglyphs of the Pacific Northwest

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 28, Winter 1975

Review by Donald Mitchell

BC Studies no. 28 Winter 1975 | Page(s) 73-6

The Struggle for Survival: Indian Cultures and the Protestant Ethic in British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 22, Summer 1974

Review by Jacqueline Gresko

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | Page(s) 82-4

The Canadian Indian: A History Since 1500

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 15, Autumn 1972

Review by Robin Fisher

BC Studies no. 15 Autumn 1972 | Page(s) 88-90

Indian Families of the Northwest Coast: The Impact of Change

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 12, Winter 1971

Review by Michael Kew

BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972 | Page(s) 84-6

Indian Rock Carvings of the Pacific North West

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 11, Autumn 1971

Review by Audrey Hawthorn

BC Studies no. 11 Autumn 1971 | Page(s) 72-4

Indian Healing: Shamanic Ceremonialism in the Pacific Northwest

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 56, Winter 1982  

Review by Wolfgang Jilek

BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | Page(s) 97-9

The Yuquot Project, Vols. 1-3

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 55, Autumn 1982  

Review by Roy Carlson

BC Studies no. 55 Autumn 1982 | Page(s) 99-100

Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 46, Summer 1980  

Review by Reuben Ware

BC Studies no. 46 Summer 1980 | Page(s) 99-104

Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast

BC Studies no. 42 Summer 1979 | Page(s) 69-70

Early Indian Village Churches: Wooden Frontier Architecture in British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 38, Summer 1978  

Review by S.W. Jackman

BC Studies no. 38 Summer 1978 | Page(s) 72-3

Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 35, Autumn 1977  

Review by Cornelius J. Jaenen

BC Studies no. 35 Autumn 1977 | Page(s) 69-73

Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1: The Legacy

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987

Review by James Walker

BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 40-1

North American Indian Designs

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 67, Autumn 1985

Review by Judy Hall

BC Studies no. 67 Autumn 1985 | Page(s) 57-9

False Creek: History, Images, and Research Sources

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 65, Spring 1985  

Review by Patricia Roy

BC Studies no. 65 Spring 1985 | Page(s) 79-80

Indian Art Traditions of the Northwest Coast

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 63, Autumn 1984  

Review by Andrea Laforet

BC Studies no. 63 Autumn 1984 | Page(s) 77-9

A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 60, Winter 1983

Review by Andrea Laforet

BC Studies no. 60 Winter 1983-1984 | Page(s) 75-7