Index

Book Review

The Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The CPR steam years, 1905-1949

While the roundhouses are now mostly silent and only the occasional freight train makes its way up and down the island, the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N) occupies a prominent place in Vancouver Island’s history....

Review by David Hill-Turner

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 130-32

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Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains

Richard Mackie’s Mountain Timber is the second volume of a projected three-volume history of the Comox Logging and Railway Company’s operations on Vancouver Island. This volume begins c.1927 with the company’s expansion of its steam-powered...

Review by Christopher Hanna

BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 156-57

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Review by Wendy Wickwire

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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