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Fort St. James and New Caledonia: Where British Columbia Began
Many residents of British Columbia are probably unaware that the settler history of the province began not in the Fraser Valley but in New Caledonia, the north-central interior, a result not of the explorations of...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 107-8
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Country Roads of British Columbia: Exploring the Interior
Liz Bryan will be known to many readers of BC Studies as the founding publisher and editor (with her husband, photographer Jack Bryan) of Western Living and the author of British Columbia: This Favoured Land...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 132-4
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Myra’s Men: Building the Kettle Valley Railway, Myra Canyon to Penticton
In August 2003, the Okanagan Mountain Park fire southeast of Kelowna destroyed or damaged the Myra Canyon trestles, eighteen railroad structures, and the roadbed between them. This 5.5-mile (8.9-km) elevated path around a mountainous amphitheatre...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 200-1
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Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia
Evergreen Playland is the dvd version of the movie of the same name that was part of the exhibition “Free Spirits: Stories of You, Me and BC,” held at the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 203-5
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The Central Okanagan Records Survey
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 84, Winter 1989/90
BC Studies no. 84 Winter 1989-1990 | Page(s) 102-3
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This Was Our Valley
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 86, Summer 1990
BC Studies no. 86 Summer 1990 | Page(s) 82-4
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Unmarked: Landscape Along Highway 16
In 1982 SARAH DE LEEUW’S father put on a suit and tie – “a rare sight,” (1) de Leeuw writes – and then left for the airport. He returned on the evening of the third...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 107-8
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Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast: Their Biographies and Photographs
The term “Nikkei” has become prevalent in the last decade or two. Its broad definition is “people of Japanese descent and their descendants,” and includes those of mixed heritage. It assumes they have an interest...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 130-1
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Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
British Columbia is noteworthy among Canadian provinces for its paucity of good farmland. Too much is rocky, the coastal forests are daunting, a great deal is arid, elevations are too great to support crops, and...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 141-3
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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...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 149-51
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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...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 151-3
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Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems
The cover of Garry Gottfriedson’s book promises us a collection of traditional cowboy poetry. Exposed on a wood-grained surface are a pair of silver spurs, feathers, leather collar, and two bullets, one of which is...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 157-9
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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
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Kosaburo Shimizu: The Early Diaries, 1909-1926
Many ISSEI , first-generat ion Japanese immigrants, kept diaries – but rarely in English. Now, thanks to translations by his son-in-law, informed and sensitive introductions by his daughter, and the support of other family members,...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 131-2
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Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
The cover of this atlas is engaging [1]. The muted grey, black, and red jacket offers an intriguing bird’s-eye view of Vancouver in 1912, looking west from New Westminster to Stanley Park. The heavy antique...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 123-6
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Theatre in British Columbia
Theatre in British Columbia consists of eighteen articles by academics and artists who explore plays, playwrights, and/or productions that reflect theatre within the Province of British Columbia. This important book is Volume 6 in the...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 125-7
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Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell’s Canyon High Dam Controversy
This is a book about why something did not happen. It is not quite counter-factual history, but it is an approach that works to remind us that nothing is inevitable. In the postwar Northwest, nothing,...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 122-4
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Switchbacks: Art, Ownership and Nuxalk National Identity
Jennifer Kramer’s book describes some recent negotiations of public representation and the incipient construction of national identity through the disposition of works of art by the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. This book...