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Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered
Helen Piddington’s Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered is a collection of 117 brief reminiscences of the author’s childhood on southern Vancouver Island during the Depression and World War Two. Born in 1931, Piddington was...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 152-53
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Book Review
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture.
The unique circumstances of indigenous women are often overlooked in the literature on both mainstream feminism and indigenous activism. Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is thus a welcome addition to the existing scholarship....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 146-7
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Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Canada’s best-known female literary writers from the 1930s are all closely associated with British Columbia: activist wordsmith Dorothy Livesay, then a member of the Communist Party, who first moved to Vancouver in 1936; Anne Marriott,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 117-8
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Book Review
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen
As I was reading this book in the late summer of 2009, I was struck by the sharp difference between the heyday of British Columbia’s fishing industry as portrayed in Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 130-131
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Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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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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Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
The cover of this atlas is engaging [1]. The muted grey, black, and red jacket offers an intriguing bird’s-eye view of Vancouver in 1912, looking west from New Westminster to Stanley Park. The heavy antique...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 123-6
Book Review
Switchbacks: Art, Ownership and Nuxalk National Identity
Jennifer Kramer’s book describes some recent negotiations of public representation and the incipient construction of national identity through the disposition of works of art by the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. This book...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 117-20
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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 123, Autumn 1999
BC Studies no. 123 Autumn 1999 | Page(s) 91-2
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Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five
The sinking of the BC Ferries vessel Queen of the North on 22 March 2006 has brought the lives of British Columbia’s coastal residents into sharp and extraordinary focus. It is a safe bet that...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 98-9
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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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Book Review
A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960
An early and still not inappropriate epithet for Vancouver is Terminal City. This epithet denotes not only a peripheral cultural as well as a geographical location but also the city’s potential for development, despite its...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 117-20
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
THE IDEA OF a story being as sharp as a knife, which is the title of Robert Bringhurst’s astonishing introduction to the works of classical Haida poets, is a useful proposition to consider in order...