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The Amazing Foot Race of 1921: Halifax to Vancouver in 134 Days
Three teams left Halifax in a 3,645-mile pedestrian race to Vancouver in 1921. Amateur sportsman Charles Burkman was first to head west on 17 January, followed a few days later by Jack and Clifford Behan,...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 184-185
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Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded our Schools
Corporate involvement in Canadian schools is an emotional topic. There are alarmists, like some of the teachers’ federations. They long for public education’s halcyon days and warn vaguely of nefarious “neoliberals” set to “privatize.” There...
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Vancouver: No Fixed Address
What stays with you after watching Charles Wilkinson’s new documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, is its beautiful cinematography. Vancouver’s ideal location at the intersection of the ocean, the mountains, and the sky is captured brilliantly: every shot...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
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Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver
FACING HISTORY: Portraits from Vancouver grew out of an exhibition at North Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery, curated by the book’s editor, Karen Love. In her introductory essay, Love explains that Facing History “cannot be a portrait...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 198- 200
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin: Stories Worth Keeping
Diana Wilson deserves congratulations for the excellent collection of writings that she has assembled in this wonderful book. Wilson’s aim, as she writes in the introduction, was to choose voices that reflect the multifaceted nature...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 127-8
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Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five
The sinking of the BC Ferries vessel Queen of the North on 22 March 2006 has brought the lives of British Columbia’s coastal residents into sharp and extraordinary focus. It is a safe bet that...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 98-9
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Stella: Unrepentant Madam
Linda Eversole’s biography of Victoria madam Stella Carroll (1872-1946) is listed on the book cover as fitting into two genres: “creative non-fiction” and “history.” It’s an interesting division for an interesting book. Having spent more...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 107-9
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway
Vistas, Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway is about the ways in which painters and photographs met the challenge of capturing the mountain landscape west of Calgary during the late nineteenth century. This book is...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 214-215
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The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers: A History of Yukon River Steam Navigation.
Paddle-driven, stern-wheeled river steamboats evolved on the Ohio River in the 1830s into the form they would keep for the next 100 years, enabling them to serve everywhere in the vast Mississippi River basin and...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 206-207
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Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region: Development, Agency, and Contestation in Northern British Columbia
From the Northern Gateway Pipeline Inquiry, to the Tsilhqot’in land claim decision, to the proposed Site C dam, northern British Columbia has made regular front page news appearances in recent years. In Resource Communities in...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 227-228
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Christy Clark: Behind the Smile
According to Judi Tyabji this is “not an authorized biography. In fact, it’s not really a biography at all because she’s still premier.” Rather, it is “a book about Premier Clark written by someone who...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 170-171
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The Queen of the North Disaster, The Captain’s Story
As one might expect from a competent and conscientious career mariner, Colin Henthorne’s account of the sinking of the Queen of the North on March 22, 2006, a little south of Prince Rupert on British...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 182-4
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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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Truth & Indignation: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
The struggle to articulate Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has seen varying degrees of success since the Commission was established in the 2006 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. In 2008, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 144-146
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Names on a Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World War I
Sylvia Crooks’s Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II (2005) brought to life the lives of all the men honoured on the Nelson cenotaph and the impact of the war on their families...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 169-171
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This Day in Vancouver
There are some stories about Vancouver that bear retelling. Take the tale of Theodore Ludgate, an American capitalist in the lumber trade who arrived in the city around 1899 with a lease for the...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09
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Harold Mortimer-Lamb: The Art Lover
Harold Mortimer-Lamb lived an extraordinary life — all ninety-nine years of it. Born in England in 1872, he came to British Columbia at the age of seventeen, initially to work on Captain L.N. Agassiz’s Fraser...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 150-52
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Rufus: The Life of the Canadian Journalist who Interviewed Hitler
Colin Castle has undertaken a labour of love. The retired schoolteacher spent four years researching, transcribing, and writing the story of newspaperman Lukin “Rufus” Johnston. The self-described “history buff” (xvii) married Val Johnston, the granddaughter...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 168-69
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Walhachin: Birth of a Legend
Walhachin has a particular resonance for many British Columbians. Because of this, certain aspects of the Walhachin story have acquired a permanency and legitimacy that are not supported by what actually happened at this Edwardian orchard...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 170-71
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Dispatches From The Occupation: A History of Change
On 25 September 2011, the first “occupiers” began to move into Zuccotti Park. Located near the heart of Wall Street, New York’s financial district, their presence was initially ignored by mainstream media. However, awareness grew...