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Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast
The sea draws many, to many destinies. Even those of us who are landlocked remain drawn due to history, biology or too much reading. This book offers the stories of 24 women (25 including the...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 184-185
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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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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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Witness to Loss
Witness to Loss is a multi-authored study of wartime Japanese Canadian confinement that draws from the memoirs of Kishizo Kimura, a Japanese-born man who immigrated to Canada in 1911. Kimura had an important impact on the...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 163-164
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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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Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017
Cole Harris’s Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017 is delightful summer reading. It is, primarily, a history of the Harris family’s Bosun Ranch and a record of the lives of...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 185-6
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Toshiko
I haven’t read a comic book since childhood, save for the Classics Comic version of “Romeo and Juliet,” which seemed a short-cut to studying that play in high school. Co-incidentally, Kluckner’s book, more properly described...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 224
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The Slocan History Series
Edited by Cole Harris, the Slocan History Series began with four booklets that focus primarily on the mining “boom days” of the 1890s and their long-term effects on the region....
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 141-144
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Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada’s Great War Memorial Statuary
In the two decades following the Great War, Canadian sculptors, architects and stonemasons produced over four thousand war monuments in the form of plaques, shafts, crosses, obelisks, stelae and figurative sculptures. Some were paid for...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 146-148
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Gently to Nagasaki
Joy Kogawa’s place in literary history has been secure since 1981, when Obasan swayed more hearts and minds than art can generally hope to do. Told from the point of view of a six-year-old girl,...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 169-170
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The Salmon People
When The Salmon People was first published in 1967, commercial salmon fishing still sustained many coastal communities, although as Hugh McKervill pointed out then, there were plenty of signs that the resource was threatened. In...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 200-201
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A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
There is an alternative out there to the globalized world of agribusiness, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and processed packaged food, one based on harvesting and using local, especially wild, foods and re-weaving them into our...