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Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History
Viewing the historical study of Canada over the past few decades as having put class, gender, ethnic, regional, and cultural conceptions at the heart of Canadian inquiry, contributors to this volume turn to what remains...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 105-7
Book Review
The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
This ambitious book takes up the daunting challenge of surveying Canada’s evolution from the 1500s to the 1870s. Cole Harris’ long and distinguished career as a historical geographer with exceptionally wide-ranging interests provide him with...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 125- 7
Book Review
Bowering’s BC: A Swashbuckling History
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 113, Spring 1997
BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Page(s) 105-7
Book Review
The Wilderness Profound: Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 110, Summer 1996
BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996 | Page(s) 111-2
Book Review
An Okanagan History: The Diaries of Roger John Sugars, 1905 to 1919
Between the 1890s and the Great War the Okanagan Valley was transformed from an extensive ranching landscape into an ordered landscape of orchards and townsites. This was a result of access to the valley thanks...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 125-7
Book Review
Edenbank: The Story of a Canadian Pioneer Farm
ALLEN WELLS, who came west from Upper Canada for the gold rush, stayed to farm, establishing Edenbank, one of the earliest and largest farms in the Chilliwack Valley. As new settlers arrived, he encouraged “the...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 142-4
Book Review
A World Apart: The Crowsnest Communities of Alberta and British Columbia
A WORLD APART, edited by Wayne Norton and Tom Langford, is a solid collection of essays and memoirs about the experience of living and working in the Crowsnest Pass communities of Alberta and British Columbia in the twentieth...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 192-4
Book Review
Greenpeace
VANCOUVER IN THE EARLY 1970S Was a far different place from the “world class” cosmopolis it is today. Home to “draft dodgers” and a Kitsilano counterculture, it was an open space for environmental action, like...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 301-3
Book Review
With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
We might as well name the elephant in the room. The editors did. The book’s first sentence, back cover, and promotional material all imply a fear that it will be received as “an apologist text”...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 116-8
Book Review
Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 132 Winter 2001-2002 | Page(s) 103-105
Book Review
Shoot!
George Bowering’s Shoot!, originally published in 1994, is based on the historical account of the murder of officer Johnny Ussher by the McLean Gang. Ostensibly, Shoot! is a western novel that revolves around the youthful...