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Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
The study of indigenous history is fundamentally interdisciplinary and benefits, as Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia illustrates, from consideration of different forms of data from a range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. The challenge...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 144-46
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The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries
Books that are compilations of papers given at conferences, such as this one, can be rather disjointed, often with only a few chapters of interest to each individual reader. This is an exception to that...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 146-48
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Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Secret Service is the first full-length narrative on security intelligence in Canada since Stan Horrall and Carl Betke’s 1978 official RCMP history, Canada’s Security Service: An Historical Outline, 1864-1966. This is a significant achievement for...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 231-233
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Native Claims: Indigenous Law Against Empire, 1500-1920
This major interdisciplinary study shatters the illusion that only Europeans contributed to modern legal debate about the legitimacy of empire and nature of imperial sovereignty and colonial possession. The basic – twofold — premise of...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 223-225
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Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the WSANEC People
In Saanich Ethnobotany, Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda describe the land and vegetation of W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich), examine the “many interrelationships between people and plants” (11), and explore the traditional ecological knowledge that allowed local First...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 214-215
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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Kilts on the Coast: The Scots Who Built BC
Despite the title, this is not a comprehensive history of the Scots in British Columbia. The best overview remains the BC chapter in Ferenc Morton Szasz, Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917 (2000), which...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 161-3
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The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History 1945-1953
The writing of Canadian Theatre History, as an academic field of study, is a latecomer, with the first wave of academic articles and books appearing only in the mid-1970s along with the founding the Association...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 182-3
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The Library Book: a History of Service to British Columbia
Accepting the challenge to produce, within a fixed deadline, a comprehensive overview of the evolution of libraries in British Columbia must have been daunting. Works of this sort are most often destined to grow old,...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 165-6
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The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
For this fourth volume in his series on the Literary History of British Columbia, Alan Twigg has set himself the impossible task of selecting 150 “Great B.C. Books and Authors,” designated as...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 166-68
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The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest
This multidisciplinary, transnational volume is a welcome addition to treaty literature in Canada and the United States. Situating treaty-making in the Pacific Northwest within a broader global context of imperialism and colonial indigenous-settler relations, the...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 133-135
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Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History
Viewing the historical study of Canada over the past few decades as having put class, gender, ethnic, regional, and cultural conceptions at the heart of Canadian inquiry, contributors to this volume turn to what remains...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 105-7
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The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
The publication of Andrew Scott’s The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia in 2009 both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Captain John T. Walbran’s British Columbia Coast Names...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 107-9
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Canada’s Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
The editors of Canada’s Entrepreneurs assembled this book to appeal to a wide variety of Canadian readers (including non-academics), to inspire instructors to incorporate more business history into their courses, and to showcase the Dictionary...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 160-1
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Waste Heritage
The protagonist of Irene Baird’s Depression-era novel Waste Heritage is Matt Striker, a twenty-three-year-old transient from Saskatchewan. A veteran of the Regina Riot in 1935, which ended the On-to-Ottawa trek, Matt arrives in Vancouver by...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 141-2
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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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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899
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BC Studies no. 61 Spring 1984 | Page(s) 94-6
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Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront 1919-1939
In Citizen Docker Andrew Parnaby explores industrial relations on the Vancouver waterfront during the interwar years. The analysis is linked to a broader consideration of the transition to the welfare state and the new industrial...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 139-141
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Musqueam Reference Grammar
The late Wayne Suttles’s monu mental Musqueam Reference Grammar fo cuses on the language of the Mus queam people of the lower Fraser River, speakers of a Downriver dialect of the language known to linguists...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 91-4
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Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia
Andrew Woolford’s Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia marks an important shift in the historiography of indigenous- settler relations in Canada. Focusing on the first ten years of the BC treaty process...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 89-91
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Danger, Death and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902-28
The Crowsnest Pass coal-mining communities serve as the backdrop for Karen Buckley’s study of danger, death, and disaster. Her objective is to examine personal and community responses to death and to “gain a clearer understanding...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 129-31
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A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
JAMES COLNETT will always remain a name of notoriety in world history for it is he who responded to Commandant Esteban Martinez’s demands and formalities at Nootka Sound in 1789 and started, so it is...