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The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd
Peter Busby’s The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd is the eighth and latest book in the Unheralded Artists Series presented by Mother Tongue Publishing. The series as a whole makes a significant contribution to...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 211-212
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Around the World on Minimum Wage: An Account of a Pilgrimage I Once Made to Tibet by Mistake
Andrew Struthers self-identifies as “L’Étranger” of the “F___book™” age and I’m prepared to believe him, though I’m not sure how Camus might see it. For that matter, what would Camus make of F___book™? Struthers...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 155-156
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Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
The cover and larger format pages of this handsomely produced book are drear images of demolition in the older inner suburbs of Vancouver. An array are pictured on the back cover rather in the manner...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 157-160
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volumes 1-6
A portion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) mandate laid out in Schedule N to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement [IRSSA] of 2006 said that the Commission was to “Produce and submit to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 169-175
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Naturalists at Sea: From Dampier to Darwin
Books by Glyn Williams are always a delight. He is one the foremost historians of European voyages of exploration to the Pacific and the Arctic and has a rare and enviable ability to bring his...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 156-158
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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar
It was with great anticipation that those of us who study South Asian migration to Canada have awaited the expanded and revised version of Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru. Johnston’s original monograph...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 156-157
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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the catalogue of arguably one of the most important exhibitions of Canadian art in recent history, which in turn dealt with one of the most transformative art movements...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 176-77
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Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada
This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76
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Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 159-160
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Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
This is a timely, thoughtful, and useful collection of primary documents on the history of the interactions among Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, and the Canadian state. Given what is currently available, it will be invaluable...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120
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Rufus: The Life of the Canadian Journalist who Interviewed Hitler
Colin Castle has undertaken a labour of love. The retired schoolteacher spent four years researching, transcribing, and writing the story of newspaperman Lukin “Rufus” Johnston. The self-described “history buff” (xvii) married Val Johnston, the granddaughter...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 168-69
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We Go Far Back In Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987
Nicholas Bradley is to be commended for this edited collection of Earle Birney and Al Purdy’s correspondence. As might be expected from two epic figures of Canadian literature who lived and worked in British Columbia,...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 138-40
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
When the Vancouver convention centre was completed in 2009, a series of interpretive panels describing the history of British Columbia were placed along the waterfront promenade. Featured among these panels is the story of “BC’s...