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Mayne Island and the Outer Gulf Islands: A History
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 65, Spring 1985
BC Studies no. 65 Spring 1985 | Page(s) 71-2
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Alberni Prehistory: Archaeological and Ethnographic Investigations on Western Vancouver Island
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 64, Winter 1984
BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 82-4
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Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 58, Summer 1983
BC Studies no. 58 Summer 1983 | Page(s) 71
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Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island
Huy tseep q’u, ah siem In a period marred by unemployment and economic hardships, Beryl Mildred Cryer, a Chemainus housewife, mother, and part-time journalist, set out to introduce the world to the oral traditions of...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 133-4
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Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 113, Spring 1997
BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Page(s) 107-9
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The Trail of 1858: British Columbia’s Gold Rush Past
After the California and Australia gold rushes, the Fraser River rush of 1858 was considered the third great exodus of gold seekers in search of a New El Dorado. At the time, it was said:...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 121-3
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Salt Spring: The Story of an Island
PDF – Wheeler Review Essay – BC Studies 121, Spring 1999
BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Page(s) 125-8
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The Devil of De Courcy Island: The Brother XII
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 88, Winter 1990/91
BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 105-6
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Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 85, Spring 1990
BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 62-4
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Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
IN SEPTEMBER 1996 Don “Lelooska” Smith, a highly regarded Northwest Coast artist, was laid to rest near his home in Ariel, Washington. The present volume is the result of a collaboration between Lelooska and historian...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 121-3
Book Review
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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The Reckoning of Boston Jim: A Novel
In the aftermath of the Crimean War, Eugene Augustus Hume resigns his commission. Later, hearing the casual remark that the charge of the Light Brigade was unnecessary, Eugene thinks to himself “The whole war was...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 147-8
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At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
Spanish activity along the Pacific Northwest Coast from 1774 to 1793 has attracted a moderate amount of scholarly attention, including monographs by Warren Cook, Donald Cutter, and John Kendrick, as well as the publication, often...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 148-9
Book Review
Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia
John Calvert is a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, but this is not the kind of book one expects from an academic. It presents a conspiracy theory in which the sole purpose...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 162-4
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Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Australia is one of the few countries of the world where academics and politicians often debate interpretations of their country’s history in the national media. They focus on the story of Aborigine-settler relations. Even the...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
Book Review
Far West: The Story of British Columbia
When I received this book by this popular and prolific writer, I thought it was a coffee table history of British Columbia. While Far West is large and glossy, I quickly realized that BC Studies...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 148-9
Book Review
Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898
In this book, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson tell a remarkable and little-known story – that of the many hundreds of Hawaiian Islanders who, for more than a century, came to work in the Pacific...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 111-2
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Sointula: Island Utopia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 97-8
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Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891
One of the most unexpected conse quences of the systematic social history undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s was a profound rethinking of its initial focus on industrialization and urbanization as the central features of...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 106-7
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The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
In their recent edited collection, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005), Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton call for a renewed focus on gender as a category of historical analysis, positioning “the...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 104-5
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Paldi Remembered: 50 Years in the Life of a Vancouver Island Logging Town
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 119, Autumn 1998
BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 110-1
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Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
In 1999 a small group of Salt Spring Island activists decided to mark the coming millennium by inventorying and mapping the unique resources of their island home. Inspired by bioregional writing and mapping projects in...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 94-6
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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...