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Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast: Their Biographies and Photographs
The term “Nikkei” has become prevalent in the last decade or two. Its broad definition is “people of Japanese descent and their descendants,” and includes those of mixed heritage. It assumes they have an interest...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 130-1
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Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
British Columbia is noteworthy among Canadian provinces for its paucity of good farmland. Too much is rocky, the coastal forests are daunting, a great deal is arid, elevations are too great to support crops, and...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 141-3
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Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection
In October 1863, the Reverend Robert J. Dundas of Scotland travelled up the coast from Victoria to Old Metlakatla, near Prince Rupert. There, he acquired seventy-seven “ceremonial objects” from the Anglican evangelical lay minister William...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 150-2
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In Search of Canadian Political Culture
In Search of Canadian Political Culture positions itself at the centre of debates over the nature of political culture in Canada, taking on disputes within what Alan Cairns would call the “sociological school” (behavioural versus...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 152-5
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Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974
A few exceptions aside, the remarkable escalation of books that have investigated British Columbia’s forests and forest economy in recent years have not paid much attention to labour. Yet labour’s role is vital to the evolution...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 155-7
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The British Columbia Atlas of Wellness
Maps and atlases have acquired a mystique in the lore of public health since the publication of Dr. John Snow’s famous cholera map of London in the mid-nineteenth century. Somewhere along the way, a notion...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 160-2
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Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia
John Calvert is a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, but this is not the kind of book one expects from an academic. It presents a conspiracy theory in which the sole purpose...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 162-4
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States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
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Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990’s
This book is a long-overdue corrective to existing literature on the history of the Canadian family. Adoption, as Veronica Strong-Boag asserts, “is a far from marginal phenomenon in Canadian history” (vii), yet historians have given...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 134-7
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Far West: The Story of British Columbia
When I received this book by this popular and prolific writer, I thought it was a coffee table history of British Columbia. While Far West is large and glossy, I quickly realized that BC Studies...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 148-9
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Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia’s North Coast. 1870-2005
The southern interior of British Columbia is a landscape woven together by stories, from the geological chronicles of glaciers and mountains to the almost mute presences of kekuli pits, abandoned cabins, and weathered fence lines...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 151-3
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Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems
The cover of Garry Gottfriedson’s book promises us a collection of traditional cowboy poetry. Exposed on a wood-grained surface are a pair of silver spurs, feathers, leather collar, and two bullets, one of which is...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 157-9
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Ships of Steel, A British Columbia Shipbuilder’s Story
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 144-5
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A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 112, Winter 1996/97
BC Studies no. 112 Winter 1996-1997 | Page(s) 101-2
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Co-operation, Conflict and Consensus: BC Central and the Credit Union Movement to 1994
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 112, Winter 1996/97
BC Studies no. 112 Winter 1996-1997 | Page(s) 104-5
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All Possible Worlds: Utopian Experiments in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 110, Summer 1996
BC Studies no. 110 Summer 1996 | Page(s) 101-3
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Hail, Columbia: Robert Gray, John Kendrick, and the Pacific Fur Trade
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 87-9
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Pilgrims in Lotus Land: Conservative Protestantism in British Columbia, 1917-1981
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 95-7
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Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 98-102
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Roaring Days: Rossland’s Mines and the History of British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 104-5
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Columbia Journals David Thompson
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 107, Autumn 1995
BC Studies no. 107 Autumn 1995 | Page(s) 81-2
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Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 107, Autumn 1995
BC Studies no. 107 Autumn 1995 | Page(s) 86-9
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A Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 103, Autumn 1994