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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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Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 127, Autumn 2000
BC Studies no. 127 Autumn 2000 | Page(s) 137-9
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Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations is a thorough treatment of a significant subject in BC history. Lutz has examined the history of exchanges of things, labour, and ideas between Aboriginal peoples and immigrants...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 133-4
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A Silent Revolution? Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
A Silent Revolution? is a fascinating study of female capitalists in Victoria and Hamilton at the turn of the twentieth century. Peter Baskerville employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to establish that women were willing...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 136-8
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Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
In this book, Grace Li Xiu Woo, a retired member of the BC Bar, steps away from a standard case law analysis and instead analyzes Supreme Court decisions related to Aboriginal and treaty rights based...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 159-164
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People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada
People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada is just that. It uses Discover Canada, the new Canadian Citizenship Guide, as a launch pad for critiquing the current federal government’s ideological leanings, leanings expressed in...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 156-157
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Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921
The Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) regiment recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. Popularly known as the Can Scots, it is the only militia unit on Vancouver Island. The regiment had previously been honoured with the freedom...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 145-147
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Raising the Workers’ Flag: The Workers’ Unity League in Canada, 1930-1936
The struggle to build trade unions in the extractive and manufacturing industries of Canada — mining, forestry, fishing, clothing, furniture, and others — was meteoric and its demise equally rapid. Raising the Workers’ Flag provides...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 149-151
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Why Canadian Forestry and Mining Towns are Organized Differently: The Role of Staples in Shaping Community, Class, and Consciousness
Canada’s single industry towns (SITs), especially resource towns, continue to be the focus of considerable academic and policy attention. Canada’s population may be highly urbanized, indeed urbane, with the major metropolitan and even medium-sized urban...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 124-125
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The Life and Art of Ina D.D. Uhthoff
Like many female artists of her generation, Ina D.D. Uhtoff, née Campbell, had a difficult time sustaining a career as a professional artist. The daughter of middle-class Scottish parents, she did not lack opportunity. In...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 134-135
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