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In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness
At last there is a comprehensive biography of Diamond Jenness, perhaps Canada’s greatest anthropologist, and it’s an excellent one. Barnett Richling has risen to the task with a clear understanding of the man, his remarkable...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 222-224
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
In late July 1924 in a house in the upper crust neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, around midday, a Scots nursemaid was found dead in the basement by the Chinese “house boy,” Wing Fong Sing....
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 185-187
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People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History
The authors, from the departments of anthropology at the University of Montana (Prentiss) and the University of Notre Dame (Kuijt), draw on their extensive and recent archaeological work in the interior of British Columbia to...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 218-220
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The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena and Nass
On 17 April 2012, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced that his department would follow through on the Federal Conservative Party 2012 budget promise to “streamline” the Environmental Assessment process in Canada. The new process...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 238-240
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Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1929-39
This is the third and final instalment in Jay Sherwood’s series about the work of provincial land surveyor Frank Swannell. It describes Swannell’s activities during the 1930s, including several seasons spent in areas of northern...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 135-36
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The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thorton
Sheryl Salloum’s new book The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton explores why this important BC artist has generally been ignored in the historical record and cultural landscape of this province. Given that she...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 181-2
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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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The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History
Sharron Simpson’s The Kelowna Story offers her clear intention of providing for the people of Kelowna, most of whom are recent arrivals, “a collective memory” (9) about the origin and development of their community. Overall,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 132-33
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Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains
Richard Mackie’s Mountain Timber is the second volume of a projected three-volume history of the Comox Logging and Railway Company’s operations on Vancouver Island. This volume begins c.1927 with the company’s expansion of its steam-powered...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 156-57
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Peter O’Reilly: The Rise of a Reluctant Immigrant
Peter O’Reilly, third son of a landed Anglo-Irish family with estates in County Meath (Ireland) and Lancashire (England), immigrated to Vancouver Island early in 1859. He was thirty-two years of age and had served...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 156-157
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The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay’s 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies
In 1914, Samuel Prescott Fay (1884- 1971), a Harvard graduate from Boston, ventured twelve hundred kilometres through the northern Rockies from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope. While the Harvard Travelers Club deferred exploration in the...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 137-38
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Chicken Poop for the Soul: In Search of Food Sovereignty
Chicken Poop for the Soul is, in part, a personal journal documenting Kristeva Dowling’s quest to take more control of the food she consumes by spending eighteen months growing, foraging, bartering, hunting, and fishing for...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 146-48
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Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
The most spectacular and accessible wildlife spectacle in British Columbia is the annual arrival of snow geese on Westham Island. For twenty-five years my office overlooked Reifel Refuge, and flocks of snow geese tumbling out...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 148-49
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The Box
Following the reissue of George Bowering’s Burning Water in 2007 and Shoot! in 2008, New Star continues its dedication to local authors with the publication of Bowering’s The Box in 2009. Promoted as a “series...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 146-7
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Valley Sutra
Kuldip Gill’s Valley Sutra is a posthumous volume, assembled by the author shortly before her death in 2009. This vibrant, accessible collection with its “iridescent shimmers” is also divided into two parts, with the author’s...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 179-180
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Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier
Robert Budd has done us all a tremendous favour by turning serious attention to the almost thousand interviews CBC journalist Imbert Orchard conducted with a wide range of British Columbians between 1959 and 1966. The...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 176-177
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The Cowichan Valley: Duncan, Chemainus, Ladysmtih and Region
We become travellers in our own land when we read Georgina Montgomery’s story and marvel at Kevin Oke’s photographs in The Cowichan Valley. The last word goes to Rick Pipes of Merridale Ciderworks, who comments:...