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Book Review
The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada’s Northwest
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 101, Spring 1994
BC Studies no. 101 Spring 1994 | Page(s) 132-4
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Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada
Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada is a valuable contribution to an emerging discourse within the field of Indigenous Studies. It furthers a multi-disciplinary dialogue by exploring the relationships between transnationalism, diaspora,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 139-40
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Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century
In Nature’s Northwest, William G. Robbins and Katrine Barber have synthesized a wealth of scholarship on the Greater Northwest, encompassing Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana, and southern British Columbia. The authors track social, economic, political,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 124-26
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The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History 1945-1953
The writing of Canadian Theatre History, as an academic field of study, is a latecomer, with the first wave of academic articles and books appearing only in the mid-1970s along with the founding the Association...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 182-3
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The Principal’s Office – And Beyond, Volumes 1 (1849-1960) and Volume 2 (1961-2005)
This study considers the development of public education in British Columbia mainly from the perspective of school principals. The author is a prominent scholar in the field of education history and a provocative critic of...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 164-5
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The Journals of William Fraser Tolmie, Physician and Fur Trader
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 5, Summer 1970
BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | Page(s) 45-51
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Passing Through Missing Pages: The Intriguing Story of Annie Garland Foster
In the early 1990s, author Frances Welwood agreed to research the life of Annie Garland Foster for a Nelson Museum exhibition, “The Women of Nelson, 1880-1950.” An early woman graduate of the University of New...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 188-89
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Stranger on a Strange Island: From Main Street to Mayne Island
Grant Buday’s slim tome about his transition to life on Mayne Island in the new millennium is my favourite among the small pile of good books about life on the inland sea that I’ve reviewed...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 196-97
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Mountains So Sublime: Nineteenth-Century British Travellers and the Lure of the Rocky Mountain West
Mountains So Sublime is a thoughtful study of the reactions of Victorian British travellers to the Rocky Mountain West, as expressed through their published travelogues and unpublished diaries and reminiscences. Recently retired from a long...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 128-30
Book Review
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880
Biographies of historical figures of the second rank often supply the foundational material and needed contextual support upon which larger studies are based. That certainly promises to be the case with this highly engaging and...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 183-185
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Profit and Ambition, The North West Company and the Fur Trade 1779-1821
This booklet was published to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s current exhibition (by the same name), which ends 6 February 2011. It is more than just a catalogue because, in addition to the superb...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 155-156
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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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Wicihitowin: Aboriginal Social Work in Canada
“Wicihitowin” is a Cree word that describes the collective processes involved in helping/sharing with one another, and that is what the eleven First Nations, Métis, and Inuit social work educators across Canada have done with...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 140-2
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Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958
Historiography may seem like a dry, pedantic exercise that would only attract a handful of readers. Add to that the seeming lack of history that the subject of British Columbia suggests. But a recent addition...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 103-5
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The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
The publication of Andrew Scott’s The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia in 2009 both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Captain John T. Walbran’s British Columbia Coast Names...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 107-9
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Canada’s Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
The editors of Canada’s Entrepreneurs assembled this book to appeal to a wide variety of Canadian readers (including non-academics), to inspire instructors to incorporate more business history into their courses, and to showcase the Dictionary...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 160-1
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Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians: West Coast Legends and Stories, Part 11 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts
What do the stories of lineage significance say about the people who tell them? What is culturally salient to the tellers of the stories? What is culturally salient to the hearers of the stories, be...