Index

Okanagan Geology South: Geologic Highlights of the South Okanagan, British Columbia

Guidebooks present risks. Some authors inadvertently lead readers into the minutia that is their passion. Others find themselves indulging in editorial or polemic. Yet others lose their readers in what might be described as a...

Review by Wayne Wilson

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 232-33

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...

Review by Paul Koroscil

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 125-7

Writing the Okanagan

George Bowering’s new anthology, Writing the Okanagan, is a collection of Bowering’s fiction associated through setting, choice of characters, or autobiographical referents, with the Okanagan, chiefly the South Okanagan, where he grew up. Many of...

Review by Ian Pooley

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 165-166

Up Chute Creek: An Okanagan Idyll

In the early 1970s, Melody Hessing and her husband Jay Lewis bought acreage in the south Okanagan near Naramata. They called their property the Granite Farm. They were idealists, hoping to build a house and...

Review by Theresa Kishkan

BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 114-5

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,...

Review by David Dendy

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 132-33

Okanagan Artists in their Studios

It is often said that the images that come to mind when thinking or writing about the cultural history of British Columbia are the province’s varied landscape and the art of the First Nations people....

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 166-167

Housing New Canadians in the Central Okanagan, British Columbia

By Carlos Teixeira

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 45-63

immigration housing Kelowna Okanagan Valley Penticton Vernon

Chinese and Japanese Market Gardening in the North and Central Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

By Catherine Kyle

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 | Page(s) 241-272

chinese japanese people agriculture Okanagan Valley

Repertoires of Racism: Reactions to Jamaicans in the Okanagan Valley

By Dixon Sookraj, Ann McKinnon, Luis L.M. Aguiar

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 65-79

newspapers race and racism labour force black people Jamaicans Okanagan Valley

Economic Development of Interior British Columbia: A Case Study of Wages in the Okanagan, 1911-21

By Roger Sugden and Keith Sugden

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 93-124

economic development labour force agriculture Okanagan

Memorandum of Misunderstanding? Public Accountability and the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 2004-17

By Peter Wylie

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 65-96

education University of British Columbia interior Okanagan

Economic Development of the BC Interior: A Case Study of Occupations in the Okanagan, 1881-1921

By Roger Sugden and Keith Sugden

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 65-89

economic development labour force interior Okanagan

When the Titans Met: Railway Rivalry in the Okanagan and Kelowna’s Rise as a Fruit-Shipping Centre

By Ian Pooley

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 55-92

railways transportation agriculture Kelowna Okanagan Valley

(Re)settling the Central Okanagan, 1860-1904: Land Monopoly, Small-Scale Ranching, and Marginalized First People

By Ian Pooley

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 41-63

land settlement Syilx agriculture Okanagan

Maybe National Park: Consultation, Conservation, and Conflict in the Okanagan-Similkameen

By Caroline Elizabeth Grego

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 43373

parks and reserves Similkameen conservation Parks Canada Okanagan Valley Txasqin (Mount Kobau)

Memorandum of Misunderstanding? Public Accountability and the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 2004-17

By Peter Wylie

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 65-96

education University of British Columbia interior Okanagan

Geology of the Kelowna Area and Origin of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

The Geology of Southern Vancouver Island: A field guide

Review by Richard L. Chase

BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996 | Pages 105-6

The Queen’s People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion and Accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada

PDF – Vibert Review Essay – BC Studies 96, Winter 1992  

Review by Elizabeth Vibert

The Central Okanagan Records Survey

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 84, Winter 1989/90  

Review by Jean Barman

BC Studies no. 84 Winter 1989-1990 | Page(s) 102-3

Parrying Water Conflicts in the Okanagan: The Potential of a Water Market

By Johannus Anthonius Janmaat

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 21-44

environment sustainability urbanization Okanagan Valley

Review Article: Determining Okanagan History

Review by Elizabeth Vibert

Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia’s North Coast. 1870-2005

The southern interior of British Columbia is a landscape woven together by stories, from the geological chronicles of glaciers and mountains to the almost mute presences of kekuli pits, abandoned cabins, and weathered fence lines...

Review by Duff Sutherland

BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 151-3

The Woman in the Trees

The southern interior of British Columbia is a landscape woven together by stories, from the geological chronicles of glaciers and mountains to the almost mute presences of kekuli pits, abandoned cabins, and weathered fence lines...

Review by Theresa Kishkan

BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 149-51