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From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
This book tells the story of the many roles of basketry in the lives of the First Peoples of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and of the diverse styles and materials used by the weavers, mainly women....
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 157-58
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Written as I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms taʔaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Sliammon elder Elsie Paul’s grandmother told her in the 1930s that knowing how to harvest food, cook, and raise children was all that a good woman really needed. It was a view said to be...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 113-14
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Historical GIS Research in Canada
This is a wonderful collection of thirteen essays, nine co-authored (twenty-seven authors all told), written by historians, geographers, librarians, archivists, cartographers, environmental scientists, and an architect, many of them acknowledging by name the other research...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 163-65
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On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Michael Asch has enjoyed a distinguished career as an anthropologist and original thinker. In his writing he wrestles with the big questions of Indigenous/settler relations, proposes original answers, and argues his points with elegance and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 185-86
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
When the Vancouver convention centre was completed in 2009, a series of interpretive panels describing the history of British Columbia were placed along the waterfront promenade. Featured among these panels is the story of “BC’s...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 173-74
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Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 Volumes 1-3
In 1793 Alexander Mackenzie crossed the continent in search of a route to the Pacific for the North West Company trade. He reached the Pacific at Dean Channel but failed to find a viable trade...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 142-44
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John Scouler (c.1804-1871) Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages
Less celebrated than his friend David Douglas, John Scouler was nevertheless an important scientific traveller to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Nootka Sound, Haida Gwaii, and Observatory Inlet in 1825. Although Douglas has been...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 159-160
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Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
Mark Abley was understandably alarmed when an impeccably dressed apparition appeared in his living room claiming to be Duncan Campbell Scott. An accomplished and respected poet, Scott spent over fifty years working in Canada’s Department of...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 225-26
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Memories of Jack Pickup: Flying Doctor of British Columbia
Transportation and communication technologies have played an integral role in modernizing British Columbia by reconfiguring possibilities of movement and exchange. As Cole Harris has pointed out in The Resettlement of British Columbia (1997), the...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 138-40
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Rural Women’s Health
This volume is a rare and important collection of groundbreaking work on a topic too often ignored in Canadian academia. I was delighted when I was asked to review this collection, simply to ensure that...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 229-231
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Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
The essays and the many previously published texts gathered together in this weighty tome demonstrate the extent to which, over the course of the past 250 years, “the idea of Northwest Coast Native art has...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 193-95
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Put that Damned Old Mattock Away
In Put that Damned Old Mattock Away, long-time Gulf Island resident David Spalding draws on oral histories, a variety of archival documents, and his grandfather’s delightfully written and illustrated diary (1914-32) to explore life on...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 202-03
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Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
This book is a must-read for people interested in Canadian history, gender, and electoral politics in Canada. I cannot say enough about Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments, which includes chapters written by...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 231-32
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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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The Canadian Rangers: A Living History
Today the Canadian Rangers are noted as a unique unit within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), created to establish a military presence in remote coastal and northern regions by utilizing mainly Aboriginal volunteers. Lackenbauer’s extensive...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 162-64
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Echoes Across Seymour: A History of North Vancouver’s Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove
Janet Pavlik, Desmond Smith, and Eileen Smith have given us another chapter in the history of the Seymour area and North Vancouver’s eastern communities by recording the changes of the last sixty years. Written as...