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Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
A welcome addition to the literature on Aboriginal symbolic politics and direct action in Canada, this book describes the standoff between the rcmp and a handful of Native activists and supporters at Gustafsen Lake, British...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 112-4
Book Review
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
Book Review
Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II
When author Sylvia Crooks was a three-year-old growing up in Nelson, a young man named Maurice Latornell taught her how to skate. In 1944, Latornell died during a bombing mission over Berlin. For Crooks, Latornell’s...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 105-6
Book Review
Women Who Made the News: Female Journalists in Canada, 1880-1945
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 128, Winter 2000
BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 120-2
Book Review
The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
This book is splendid work of popular political history, biography, and related media study that co-authors Geoff Meggs (a former communications director to Premier Glen Clark) and Rod Mickleburgh (a veteran of the west coast...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 151-154
Book Review
Making Headlines: 100 Years of the Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun turned one hundred in 2012. To mark this event, reporter Shelley Fralic compiled a (roughly) chronological account of goings-on in the city and at the paper itself. It is not so much...