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Musqueam Reference Grammar
The late Wayne Suttles’s monu mental Musqueam Reference Grammar fo cuses on the language of the Mus queam people of the lower Fraser River, speakers of a Downriver dialect of the language known to linguists...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 91-4
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
In late July 1924 in a house in the upper crust neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, around midday, a Scots nursemaid was found dead in the basement by the Chinese “house boy,” Wing Fong Sing....
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 185-187
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Writing the Okanagan
George Bowering’s new anthology, Writing the Okanagan, is a collection of Bowering’s fiction associated through setting, choice of characters, or autobiographical referents, with the Okanagan, chiefly the South Okanagan, where he grew up. Many of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 165-166
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Last Dance in Shediac: Memories of Mum, Molly Lamb Bobak
This is a very peculiar book. Although its subject is an artist, the Vancouver-born painter Molly Lamb Bobak, the first female war artist in Canada, there is little about Bobak’s art. Molly Bobak did much more...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 168-169
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Masterworks from the Audain Art Museum
This large format book documents many of the significant works in the collection of the newest public art museum in Canada, the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, which opened in March 2016. In Canada, art...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 176-177
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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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Sonia: The Life of Bohemian, Rancher and Artist Sonia Cornwall, 1919-2006
Challenged to name women artists of British Columbia of the twentieth century, most people would stop at Emily Carr. While the list of both First Nations and settler women artists of British Columbia is impressively...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 213-214
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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
Since the sixteenth century, intrepid French Canadians have traversed the North American landscape to the very edges of the continent, and established families and communities in virtually every region north of Mexico. Given this legacy...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 114-16
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The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb
Everyone has met artists who triumphed at art school, who showed some promise following graduation, but who then vanished from the art world. The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb tells such a...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 140-41
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Walhachin: Birth of a Legend
Walhachin has a particular resonance for many British Columbians. Because of this, certain aspects of the Walhachin story have acquired a permanency and legitimacy that are not supported by what actually happened at this Edwardian orchard...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 170-71
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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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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The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown
Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
During his round-the-world voyage in 1842, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Governor George Simpson arrived at Fort Stikine and discovered that chief trader John McLoughlin Jr. had been killed. Two recent books discuss this event....
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 154-155
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The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest
Audrey DeLella Benedict and Joseph Gaydos’s book about the Salish Sea, like Beamish and McFarlane’s recent tome on the Strait of Georgia (or North Salish Sea), The Sea Among Us, is a gorgeously illustrated and...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 205-206
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Coming Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in Early Northwest America
In Coming Home in Gold Brocade, Bennet Benson and Chuimei Ho, an anthropologist and an archaeologist/historian respectively, present results of their ambitious study of the Chinese in Northwest America — an area including Washington, Oregon,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 208-209
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Not My Fate: The Story of a Nisga’a Survivor
Not My Fate: The Story of a Nisga’a Survivor is Janet Romain’s account of the life of her friend and fellow northerner, Josephine Caplin.[1] Jo was born in Smithers to a Nisga’a mother and non-Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 187-8
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Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time
How do you turn a relatively modest copper mining play on Lake Temagami in the 1950s into Canada’s largest diversified mining company, with a market capitalization in 2017 of nearly $14 billion? In telling the...