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We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us: Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia
We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us is an important and long overdue book about contemporary First Nations’ experiences in British Columbia. Using narrative interviews with almost two dozen First Nations peoples, Katherine Palmer...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 226-27
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Memories of Jack Pickup: Flying Doctor of British Columbia
Transportation and communication technologies have played an integral role in modernizing British Columbia by reconfiguring possibilities of movement and exchange. As Cole Harris has pointed out in The Resettlement of British Columbia (1997), the...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 138-40
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Fishing the Coast: A Life on the Water
“There are no books on how to catch fish for a living,” writes Don Pepper in his preface to Fishing the Coast. “None” (10). What might seem a bold statement is, upon examination, accurate. In...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 217-18
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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...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09
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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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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...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 202-03
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Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway: The Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail and Shortline Years, 1949-2013
Brimming with stunning photos of trains in the Vancouver Island landscape, Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway: The Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail and Shortline Years, 1949-2013 is a detailed account of both the railway’s day-to-day...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 161-62
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The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries
Books that are compilations of papers given at conferences, such as this one, can be rather disjointed, often with only a few chapters of interest to each individual reader. This is an exception to that...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 146-48
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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 —...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 147-48
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Yorke Island and the Uncertain War: Defending Canada’s Western Coast during WWII
The Second World War is fading from living memory, and military veterans of that conflict are now rare. Their average age is 87. Given this situation, the author and Danny Brown, a Campbell River Museum...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 233-234
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The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the BC Coast
Promoting an upcoming reading of Don Pepper’s A Life on the Water at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Harbour Publishing exclaims: “Here, finally, is a book about commercial salmon fishing through the eyes of a commercial...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 150-51
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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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Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry: A Home Child Experience
The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was located near Duncan, British Columbia. Between 1935 and 1950 it accommodated over three hundred underprivileged British children. Marjorie Arnison was one of them. She arrived at the...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 228-230
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Imperial Vancouver Island: Who was Who 1850-1950
The author of this work, Professor J.F. Bosher, was born in North Saanich near Sidney, British Columbia and raised in a cultured English family. Having retired from York University in Toronto, where he specialized in...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 128-30
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The True Story of Canada’s “War” of Extermination on the Pacific plus The Tsilhqot’in and Other First Nations Resistance
One should always be skeptical of books when the title proclaims them to be the “true story” on any aspect of history. For truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Tom Swanky’s...