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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese during the Second World War
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 96, Winter 1992
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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,...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 131-2
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A Brush with Life
A Brush with Life narrates the career of John Koerner, a Czechborn artist who has worked in Vancouver for over sixty years. He taught painting and drawing in the city from 1953 to 1962 and...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 132-4
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Theatre in British Columbia
Theatre in British Columbia consists of eighteen articles by academics and artists who explore plays, playwrights, and/or productions that reflect theatre within the Province of British Columbia. This important book is Volume 6 in the...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 125-7
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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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Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
In 1999 a small group of Salt Spring Island activists decided to mark the coming millennium by inventorying and mapping the unique resources of their island home. Inspired by bioregional writing and mapping projects in...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 94-6
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Musqueam Reference Grammar
The late Wayne Suttles’s monu mental Musqueam Reference Grammar fo cuses on the language of the Mus queam people of the lower Fraser River, speakers of a Downriver dialect of the language known to linguists...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 91-4
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British Columbia: Land of Promises
This delightful book is Volume 5 of Oxford University Press’s six-volume Illustrated History of Canada. As the authors note in the introduction, the series is “uniquely Canadian” because the volumes are not shaped by chronology...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 111-3
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Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
According to Patricia Wood, ethnic studies in Canada – or at least the study of Italian immigrants and their descendants – is at best a marginal or fringe activity in the Canadian academy. She complains,...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 123-7
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Watara- Dori (Birds of Passage)
WATARA-DORI (Birds of Passage) is a biographical fiction of a half-year period (24 June 1915 to 1 January 1916) in the life of a Japanese-Canadian fisher. Mitsuo Yesaki has a thorough knowledge of the Pacific coast fisheries,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 120-1
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The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
THIS LONG-AWAITED BOOK argues that the Slocan Valley, through its often dramatic history, is a reflection of the region and its connection with events in British Columbia and Canada. Not so much a local history,...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 134-5
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A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
JAMES COLNETT will always remain a name of notoriety in world history for it is he who responded to Commandant Esteban Martinez’s demands and formalities at Nootka Sound in 1789 and started, so it is...