Index

When Coal Was King: Ladysmith in the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island

WHEN COAL WAS KING, Ladysmith was a small, undistinguished pit-town, one of thousands around the industrializingworld. On the eve of the Great War, Ladysmith’s population barely passed 3,200. Compared with Nanaimo or Cumberland, let alone...

Review by John Belshaw

BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 125-6

Becoming Wild: Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island

Heart & Soil: The Revolutionary Good of Gardens

Review by Lauren Harding

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Pages 182-84

The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery

Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors

Review by Alan D. McMillan

BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Pages 123-5

High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered

The commercial salmon fishery has recently inspired a spate of books on the fading of the salmon industry. This volume fits into that literature. Among its special virtues are its basis in a specific area...

Review by Keith Ralston

BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 127-8

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...

Review by Wendy Wickwire

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72

Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985

Earning a decent living from pottery is difficult. Crafts, in general, do not support high earners. The notion that any amateur can throw a pot has kept professional potters just above the poverty line —...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 147-48

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580

This book represents an expanded form of the much debated revelations of Samuel Bawlf concerning the Pacific Ocean explorations of Francis Drake during his 1577–80 voyage of circumnavigation. Parts of the voyage account are well known,...

Review by Christon Archer

BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 101-3

This Day in Vancouver

       There are some stories about Vancouver that bear retelling. Take the tale of Theodore Ludgate, an American capitalist in the lumber trade who arrived in the city around 1899 with a lease for the...

Review by John Belshaw

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09

Put that Damned Old Mattock Away

In Put that Damned Old Mattock Away, long-time Gulf Island resident David Spalding draws on oral histories, a variety of archival documents, and his grandfather’s delightfully written and illustrated diary (1914-32) to explore life on...

Review by R.W. Sandwell

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 202-03

Fishing the River of Time

Here is an entertaining addition to the shelf of books about Vancouver Island. Depending upon the reader’s own experiences in life, and the breadth of his interests, he may be amused by Taylor’s rambling memories...

Review by J.F. Bosher

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 230-231

Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley

The Woods: A Year on Protection Island

Review by Andrew Scott

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Pages 184-5

Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are (2nd Edition)

The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs

Review by Alan D. McMillan

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 135-137

Is it a house? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington

Synthesizing archaeological research results from the Salish Sea can be a time-consuming task because of the international boundary that currently divides the region. This is further complicated by the rise of cultural resource management archaeology...

Review by Duncan McLaren

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 157-9

Alberni Prehistory: Archaeological and Ethnographic Investigations on Western Vancouver Island

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 64, Winter 1984

Review by Philip Hobler

BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 82-4

Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 58, Summer 1983  

Review by Dianne Newell

BC Studies no. 58 Summer 1983 | Page(s) 71

Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 113, Spring 1997  

Review by Daniel Clayton

BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Page(s) 107-9

Mayne Island and the Outer Gulf Islands: A History

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 65, Spring 1985  

Review by Andrea Smith

BC Studies no. 65 Spring 1985 | Page(s) 71-2

“Haida Burial Practices…;” Jerome S. Cybulski, “The Gust Island Burial Shelter: Physical Anthropology;” Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury Series (Paper No. 9.)

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 21, Spring 1974

Review by Donald Mitchell

BC Studies no. 21 Spring 1974 | Page(s) 59-60

Bowen Island, 1872- 1972

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 22, Summer 1974

Review by Robert Watt

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | Page(s) 77-9

Salt Spring: The Story of an Island

PDF – Wheeler Review Essay – BC Studies 121, Spring 1999  

Review by Charles Kahn

BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Page(s) 125-8

Vancouver Island: Land of Contrasts

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 44, Winter 1979  

Review by J. Robinson

BC Studies no. 44 Winter 1979-1980 | Page(s) 78-80

Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 85, Spring 1990

Review by Clarence Karr

BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 62-4

The Unknown Island

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 22, Summer 1974

Review by Walter D. Young

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | Page(s) 76-7