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White Man’s Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914
PDF – Daniels Review Essay, BC Studies 156/157, Winter/Spring 2007/08
BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 173-7
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Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese during the Second World War
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 96, Winter 1992
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This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-48
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987
BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 46-9
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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 Enemy That Never Was: A History of Japanese Canadians
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 33, Spring 1977
BC Studies no. 33 Spring 1977 | Page(s) 54-7
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The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 53, Spring 1982
BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 66-8
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Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 37, Spring 1978
BC Studies no. 37 Spring 1978 | Page(s) 67-9
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White Man’s Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 
The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province
A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Pages 173-7
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The Japanese Canadians: A Dream of Riches
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 40, Winter 1978
BC Studies no. 40 Winter 1978-1979 | Page(s) 82-4
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The Politics of Canadian- Japanese Economic Relations 1952-1983
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 66, Summer 1985
BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 69-70
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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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The Third Crop: A Personal and Historical Journey into the Photo Albums and Shoeboxes of the Slocan Valley, 1800s to early 1940s
The Slocan Valley is quirky and isolated, and its past can be told in many ways. The valley has been a site of conflict between capital and labour on an industrial mining frontier, a haven for...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 151
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Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977–2007
In Jack Hodgins’s Broken Ground (1998), memories of the Great War haunt the fictional community of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island, but what should be remembered of the horrors of France remains uncertain. The notebook...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 161-163
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Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
The publication of Xiaoping Li’s Voices Rising is a rare literary event, a cause for celebration. Through its analysis of the social and cultural movements of Asian Canada, especially in Vancouver and Toronto, her work...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 139-41
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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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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...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 197-200
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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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Yorke Island and the Uncertain War: Defending Canada’s Western Coast during WWII
The Second World War is fading from living memory, and military veterans of that conflict are now rare. Their average age is 87. Given this situation, the author and Danny Brown, a Campbell River Museum...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 233-234
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InJustice Served: The Story of British Columbia’s Italian Enemy Aliens During World War II
Historical redress is a touchy subject and should be handled with care. At root, it is a question about what to address. InJustice Served is funded by the vaguely termed “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP),...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 235-234
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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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Legacy in Wood: The Wahl Family Boat Builders
For almost half a century, the Wahl family boatyard near Prince Rupert produced high-quality wooden boats for the coastal fishing fleet. Founded by Norwegian immigrant Ed Wahl after the First World War, the boatyard built...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 127-129
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From the West Coast to the Western Front: British Columbians and the Great War
When Mark Forsythe, host of CBC Radio’s mid-day show, BC Almanac, and journalist-producer Greg Dickson discovered that they were both involved in a personal quest to learn about great-uncles and grandfathers who had served...