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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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Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History
The Society for American Archaeology website describes their “Contemporary Perspectives” series, in which Northwest Coast is the second title, as “short volumes focused on the archaeology of a specific region.” Aimed at “busy professionals and...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 220-222
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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Telling the story of the timber wars in the national forests of the Pacific Northwest is a task that has moved from journalism to history, William Dietrich suggests in this 2010 edition of The Final...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 171-173
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The Quadra Story: A History of Quadra Island
Jeanette Taylor’s history of Quadra Island is a welcome addition to Harbour Publishing’s growing collection of Coast histories. It draws on Taylor’s profound local knowledge of the northern strait and complements her histories of Campbell...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 186-187
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One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30
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Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality
Is Cree a sexy language? Do indigenous people have less pubic hair than settler people? How are love, sex, and decolonization intimately related? These questions, and many more, are examined by the wide selection of...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 207-8
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver: Major James Skitt Matthews
The publication of Daphne Sleigh’s biography of James Matthews coincides with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the City of Vancouver Archives, which he founded. The work is remarkable for being the first book-length biography of a...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 142-143
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Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
After the Second World War, most of the Japanese relocated in camps in the interior were sent to Ontario or to Japan, while many of those who remained in British Columbia, largely the elderly or...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 142-144
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Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Accommodation in Canada and India
The author is a professor of Political Science in Shillong, the capital of the tiny hill state of Magalaya in the tribal area of North Eastern India. This is a state that, by official figures,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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Breaking the ‘Silence’: A Review of Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
THIS BOOK is a biography of Tong Louie, a second-generation Chinese Canadian businessman whose name, for several decades, has been tied to two of the most well known retail chains in western Canada — IGA...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 141-2
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After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
It has been three years since we have seen a major critical monograph published in the field of black Canadian cultural studies. The last was Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Wood’s significant edited collection, Black Geographies...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 147-9
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The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History
Sharron Simpson’s The Kelowna Story offers her clear intention of providing for the people of Kelowna, most of whom are recent arrivals, “a collective memory” (9) about the origin and development of their community. Overall,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 132-33
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The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism
Keith Thor Carlson’s book focuses on the relationship between history and identity among the Stó:lÅ people of the Lower Fraser River between 1780 and 1906. He examines specific events and broad trends to demonstrate how...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 128-9
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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism is one of those unique edited volumes in which the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. As suggested in the subtitle, the legacy of J.S. Woodsworth...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 141-45
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Vancouver: No Fixed Address
What stays with you after watching Charles Wilkinson’s new documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, is its beautiful cinematography. Vancouver’s ideal location at the intersection of the ocean, the mountains, and the sky is captured brilliantly: every shot...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
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Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir
Chasing Smoke is a memoir centered on Aaron Williams’ account of being a wildland firefighter in British Columbia during the 2014 fire season. Williams managed fire as a Telkwa Ranger, a wildland firefighter at the Telkwa...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 150-151
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Where it Hurts
Where it Hurts, by Sarah De Leeuw, is a collection of essays within the genre of creative non-fiction. The vivid essays express loss, trauma and humor. De Leeuw uses complex imagery that takes the reader...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 158-189
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The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake
In recent years, the historiography of British Columbia has burgeoned. Much of this rich and growing scholarship focuses on the province as a whole, or on its urban centres. We still have much to learn...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157
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The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena and Nass
On 17 April 2012, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced that his department would follow through on the Federal Conservative Party 2012 budget promise to “streamline” the Environmental Assessment process in Canada. The new process...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 238-240
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Outside In: A Political Memoir
Outside In can be read and enjoyed as a straightforward memoir of Libby Davies’ remarkable career as an activist and elected official. It traces her path from her early days working for housing justice in Vancouver’s...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 117-118
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Working Towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Working Towards Equity examines the intersection of the contested nature of disability movements and activism and decision maker actions related to labour market activity in late 20thcentury Canada. Galer’s argument is that advances in labour...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 223-224
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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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Undelievered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
In Undelivered Letters, editors Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss provide a voice for those North American fur trade people usually thought to be voiceless. This publication of over 200 undelivered letters to men who...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 129-30
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Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions
Coming to Shore promises to make a significant contribution to the anthropological study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the North Pacific Coast of North America. Comprising papers from the Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference,...