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Resolve: The Story of the Chelsea Family and a First Nation Community’s Will to Heal
The remains of residential schools are scattered throughout Canada. Indeed, there are only three provinces (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland) that did not house residential schools. There is not an Indigenous community, family,...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 210-212
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Big Promises, Small Government: Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal New Era
George Abbott was a cabinet minister for twelve years in the BC Liberal governments of Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark. In Big Promises, Small Government, he reflects on his tenure in the first Campbell government...
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 120-122
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Postsecondary Education in British Columbia: Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960-2015
As distinct from previous historical accounts of postsecondary education in BC, Cowin makes it clear that he will cover the development of the “entire” postsecondary system in BC (3). For Cowin, this means the whole...
BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 148-149
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Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923
When the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report in 2015 it drew attention to the importance of treaty making in the history of Crown-Indigenous relations in Canada. Treaty making, the...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 136-137
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Waterlogged: Examples and Procedures for Northwest Coast Archaeologists
Waterlogged will find its way to the bookshelves of almost every practicing archaeologist in BC. It succeeds in bringing together experience and innovation in a single source. A mix of advice for field archaeologists, empirical research...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 136-137
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Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence and the Settler Everyday in British Columbia
The history of colonial British Columbia is, in many respects, well-trodden ground. Over the past few decades, scholars like Jean Barman, Cole Harris, and Adele Perry have made multiple transformative contributions to our understanding of...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 122-124
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Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913-1973
Geographer Tyler McCreary’s book about Witsuwit’en-settler relations in Smithers is a valuable new addition to research and writing on histories of place in settler-colonial contexts. Shared Histories demonstrates how academic work can be integrated with local...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 124-126
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Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
Tamara Starblanket is a Nehiyaw (Cree) legal scholar from Ahthakakoop First Nation and is currently the Dean of Academics at the Native Education College in Vancouver, which is located on the traditional territories of the...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 214-216
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On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 205-206
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Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes is a humanistic look at the survivors from one of our nation’s most shameful institutions alongside residential schools: segregated healthcare facilities and the treatment of Indigenous peoples within these spaces....
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 178-9
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The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
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Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses and the Imperial Press
In May 1861, the British Colonist, a local newspaper in Victoria, Vancouver Island, reported on a “Horrid Massacre in New Zealand.” According to the Colonist, Maori warriors had launched a surprise attack on a small...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 172-4
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Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time
How do you turn a relatively modest copper mining play on Lake Temagami in the 1950s into Canada’s largest diversified mining company, with a market capitalization in 2017 of nearly $14 billion? In telling the...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 190-1
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Through an Unknown Country: The Jarvis-Hanington Winter Expedition through the Northern Rockies, 1874-1875
This miscellany of writings, chiefly by two civil engineers who for parts of their careers toiled as railway surveyors, aims to carve out a prominent place for them in the history of Canada. Ed Jarvis...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 212-214
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How Canadians Communicate V: Sports
The strength of How Canadians Communicate V: Sports is in its storytelling. Exploring Canadian engagement through sports and the media, the authors demonstrate that a powerful story attracts both spectators and readers. Written from multiple...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 239-240
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Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914
This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140
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The Secular Northwest: Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar Life
Scholarly endeavours, at their best, are richly textured conversations with a wide range of considered opinion and new sources that reveal dimensions of a subject previously hidden. Tina Block conducts such an endeavor focusing on...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 150-152
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Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
Students must become aware of how ambition, self-gratification, power, and control as purposes for learning are forms of self-deception that must be avoided because they lead eventually to the misuse of knowledge and the further...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 152-153
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Belonging Métis
The title of Belonging Métis is apt because the book illuminates the common twenty-first century Métis condition of yearning for belonging. Having been alienated from their geographical homeland on the Prairies beginning in 1870 when...