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Book Review
The Sea is at Our Gates: The History of the Canadian Navy
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 90, Summer 1991
BC Studies no. 90 Summer 1991 | Page(s) 88-90
Book Review
The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada 1896-1914
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 85, Spring 1990
BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 69-71
Book Review
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
THE TASK APPEARS straightforward – in this case, to read W.H. New’s monumental Encyclopedia ofLiterature in Canada for information on BC writing. There is, usefully, an entry on British Columbia (unsigned, meaning “written by New”):...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 108-12
Book Review
Breaking the ‘Silence’: A Review of Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
THIS BOOK is a biography of Tong Louie, a second-generation Chinese Canadian businessman whose name, for several decades, has been tied to two of the most well known retail chains in western Canada — IGA...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 141-2
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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
POET, WRITER, storyteller, spokesperson, performer, actress, performance artist. Pauline Johnson is certainly the most public and popular writer that nineteenth-century Canada produced, and perhaps even the most public Canadian writer of the last century. Such...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 115-8
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The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
Thirty years ago, my husband and I were having dinner at the Da Tandoor restaurant in Victoria with the incomplete executive of the League of Canadian Poets. All eyes were on the door. Would Pat...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 97-9
Book Review
The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914
David Leonard’s latest work on the Peace River country of northern British Columbia and Alberta is distinguished from its predecessors by an emphasis on the region’s agricultural history. Drawn in part from documents profiling who...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 111-2
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Shashin: Japanese Canadian Photography to 1942
During the early decades of the twentieth century, a number of Japanese Canadian photographers established studios in British Columbia, where they plied their trade. In the process of doing so, these photographers also produced a...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 124-5
Book Review
Negotiating Buck Naked: Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution
No one knows better than Gregory Cran the sometimes baffling intricacies of the relationship among the various groups of Doukhobors and between them and the mainstream community in British Columbia. Between 1979 and 1987, he...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 121-3
Book Review
Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast: Their Biographies and Photographs
The term “Nikkei” has become prevalent in the last decade or two. Its broad definition is “people of Japanese descent and their descendants,” and includes those of mixed heritage. It assumes they have an interest...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 130-1
Book Review
Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
Book Review
Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
British Columbia is noteworthy among Canadian provinces for its paucity of good farmland. Too much is rocky, the coastal forests are daunting, a great deal is arid, elevations are too great to support crops, and...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 141-3
Book Review
Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection
In October 1863, the Reverend Robert J. Dundas of Scotland travelled up the coast from Victoria to Old Metlakatla, near Prince Rupert. There, he acquired seventy-seven “ceremonial objects” from the Anglican evangelical lay minister William...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 150-2
Book Review
In Search of Canadian Political Culture
In Search of Canadian Political Culture positions itself at the centre of debates over the nature of political culture in Canada, taking on disputes within what Alan Cairns would call the “sociological school” (behavioural versus...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 152-5
Book Review
States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
Book Review
Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990’s
This book is a long-overdue corrective to existing literature on the history of the Canadian family. Adoption, as Veronica Strong-Boag asserts, “is a far from marginal phenomenon in Canadian history” (vii), yet historians have given...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 134-7
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In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada
The issue of voice, its recuperation and responsible representation, has long ranked among Aboriginal history’s central concerns. In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada shares this commitment. Refuting...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 140-2
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Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment
It is sometimes forgotten that rural Canada is on the front lines of some of the most important changes and challenges facing this country. By now, we are accustomed to hearing about looming crises in...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 146-7
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Book Review
A History of Canadian Architecture, Volumes I and II
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 110, Summer 1996
BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996 | Page(s) 107-8
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Japanese Direct Investment in Canada: Recent Trends and Prospects
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 103, Autumn 1994
BC Studies no. 103 Autumn 1994 | Page(s) 96-7
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Social and Regional Factors in Canadian English: A Study of Phonological Variables and Grammatical Items in Ottawa and Vancouver
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 101, Spring 1994
BC Studies no. 101 Spring 1994 | Page(s) 118-21
Book Review
Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese during the Second World War
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 96, Winter 1992
Book Review
Kosaburo Shimizu: The Early Diaries, 1909-1926
Many ISSEI , first-generat ion Japanese immigrants, kept diaries – but rarely in English. Now, thanks to translations by his son-in-law, informed and sensitive introductions by his daughter, and the support of other family members,...