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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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The Salmon People
When The Salmon People was first published in 1967, commercial salmon fishing still sustained many coastal communities, although as Hugh McKervill pointed out then, there were plenty of signs that the resource was threatened. In...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 200-201
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They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
Bev Sellars’s bestselling memoir, They Called Me Number One, is a personal account of an important part of the colonial history of British Columbia told from a specific region in the province (Cariboo) and from...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 221-222
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Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District
Those who would wish to time-travel to the Comox Valley of the First World War era need only to walk the streets of today’s Courtenay downtown core. There they will encounter numerous large publicly-displayed photographs...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 145-146
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Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park
The history of Indigenous peoples and parks — notably their exclusion from such places — is a field of study that has blossomed over the past two decades. Courtney Mason’s Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 160-162
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History 1940-1980
Historian Patrick Wolfe has foregrounded the contradictory condition of Indigenous labour within Euro-American settlement by arguing that mythic narratives of settler diligence coexisted with a heavy reliance on colonized Indigenous labour. As he observes in...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 162-164
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One: Summary “Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future.”
The work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) between 2009 and 2015 is especially relevant to British Columbia. Residential schools and their impact are interwoven with the history, contemporary situation, and future development of...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 167-169
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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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Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Past
A student in search of a thesis topic or a scholar seeking to understand the shape of historical writing in New Zealand over the past fifty years need go no further. In this collection of...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 153-155
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The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century
One great irony of historical archaeology is that far more research is done on nineteenth century British material culture overseas than in Britain itself, despite the importance of the Empire and its material culture to...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 155-156
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