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The Chinchaga Firestorm: When the Moon and Sun Turned Blue
Some fires are justly renowned. Some are celebrities — known for being known. A few are famous for being unknown. The 1871 Peshtigo fire in the US has long marketed itself as America’s Forgotten Fire....
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 162-163
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New Perspectives on the Gold Rush
Under editor Kathryn Bridge, New Perspectives on the Gold Rush teams up academic historians, archaeologists, and museum professionals in an effort to add previously marginalized voices to traditional histories of British Columbia’s gold rush. Despite...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 164-66
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Legacy in Time: Three Generations of Mountain Photography in the Canadian West
British Columbia and Alberta are home to the most iconic mountain landscapes in Canada. To many of us, visitors and Canadians alike, these landscapes are the embodiment of Canada. They tempt us to stop, explore,...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 167-68
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He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award
Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22
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Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Nancy Turner’s new work Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is undoubtedly her magnum opus. It is a thing of great scope, beauty, eloquence, and cohesion. Yet perhaps its greatest attribute, like all of Turner’s work, is...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 111-13
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The Afterthought: West Coast Rock Posters and Recollections
Jerry Kruz’s beautifully illustrated autobiographical work provides an intriguing first hand glimpse of Vancouver psychedelic music scene. The book revolves around Kruz’s years as a concert promoter from 1966 to 1969. Although it briefly describes...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 141-43
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Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Winter in the western mountains of Canada and the United States is a challenging time of year. Encounters in Avalanche Country provides insight into the experiences of trappers, miners, railway employees, and their communities in...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 212-13
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The Grande Dames of the Cariboo
Far too little is known about artistic activity in the interior of British Columbia — past and present alike. Julie Fowler seeks to fill this lacuna by examining the lives of two mother-and-daughter artists: Vivien...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 222-23
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Finding Jim
Finding Jim is an intimate portrayal of grief. In this memoir, first-time author Susan Oakey-Baker chronicles her relationship with mountain guide Jim Haberl (1958-99), a Canadian climber made famous for his 1993 ascent of K2...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 173-74
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Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art
Over the past several years Jane Lytton Gooch has published books devoted to the sketches, paintings, and photographs inspired by the landscape of British Columbia and Alberta. Celebrating the centennial of the founding of British...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 170-71
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John Clarke: Explorer of the Coast Mountains
For over a century, the Coast Mountains have drawn British Columbians, through both gaze and gait, to embrace the rugged peaks for which they are known. And, from the exploratory expeditions of the Mundays in...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 240-241
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Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, and Language
Place names have an incalculable value. A name can tie together the particularities of language, history, and tradition. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway have compiled place-names in Nooksack territory. It’s the result of many years...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 216-218
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Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247
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Above the Bush: A Century of Climbing on Vancouver Island, 1912-2012
In 1968, Mike Walsh did a solo ascent of Vancouver Island’s second highest peak, Mount Colonel Foster in Strathcona Park, “without rope or pitons,” an approach he did not recommend to others (67). Reporting on...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 132-33
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Alpine Anatomy: The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives
Alpine Anatomy: The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives celebrates the North Vancouver printmaker and painter’s representations of British Columbia’s sublime mountainous landscape. The book offers an overview of Shives’ career and includes five essays by...