Index

The “Gigantic Scheme”: Crofter Immigration and Deep-Sea Fisheries Development for British Columbia (1887-1893)

By Jill Wade

BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 28-44

colonization land settlement fishing industry immigration legislation

Where it Hurts

Where it Hurts, by Sarah De Leeuw, is a collection of essays within the genre of creative non-fiction. The vivid essays express loss, trauma and humor. De Leeuw uses complex imagery that takes the reader...

Review by Melinda Kachina Bige

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 158-189

Spying on Canadians: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War

Spying on Canadians opens with the goal of adding “to the political demands for a new commitment for a transparency in national security appropriate to our purportedly democratic society.” (9) It is a principled point. Describing...

Review by Jonathan Swainger

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 155-157

“A Worthy, if Unlikely, Enterprise”: The Labour Relations Board and the Evolution of Labour Policy and Practice in British Columbia, 1973-1980

By Alan F.J. Artibise

BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | Page(s) 3-43

trade unions legislation New Democratic Party

Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast

The 40th anniversary reprint of the original, classic study, Indian Fishing,has arrived. Its author is the multi-talented graphic artist, photographer, archeological fieldworker/ethnographer, and museum exhibit curator, the late Hilary Stewart. For only one of these many skills...

Review by Dianne Newell

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 151-152

“Authenticity” and the Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Art Market

By Karen Duffek

BC Studies no. 57 Spring 1983 | Page(s) 99-111

aboriginal people aboriginal art aboriginal culture northwest coast

Maritime Heritage in Crisis: Indigenous Landscapes and Global Ecological Breakdown

Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia

Review by Natalie J.K. Baloy

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Pages 147-149

Taking the Minister to Court: Changes in Public Opinion about Forest Management and Their Expression in Haida Land Claims

By Evelyn Pinkerton

BC Studies no. 57 Spring 1983 | Page(s) 68-85

Indian Act forestry aboriginal people Haida federal-provincial relations

Fernie at War 1914-1919

Wayne Norton provides a fascinating story of a British Columbia resource town navigating its way through the tribulations of the Great War.  In so doing, he adds to the small but growing body of works that...

Review by R. Scott Sheffield

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 161-162

British Columbia Indian Languages: A Crisis of Silence

By Alan Haig-Brown

BC Studies no. 57 Spring 1983 | Page(s) 57-67

aboriginal people Aboriginal languages

The Miracle Mile: Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

The Miracle Mile written by Jason Beck, the curator at the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, is a masterfully constructed narrative of the first truly international event in British Columbia sport history. The 1954...

Review by Robin Anderson

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 154-155

The Conversion of the Port Simpson Tsimshian: Indian Control or Missionary Manipulation?

By Clarence R. Bolt

BC Studies no. 57 Spring 1983 | Page(s) 38-56

land claims aboriginal people

On Uprooting and Rerooting: Reflections on the Columbia River Project

By J. W. Wilson, Maureen Conn

BC Studies no. 58 Summer 1983 | Page(s) 40-54

Columbia River treaty environment hydroelectric power Kootenay District

The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake

In recent years, the historiography of British Columbia has burgeoned. Much of this rich and growing scholarship focuses on the province as a whole, or on its urban centres. We still have much to learn...

Review by Tina Block

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157

Shifting Perspectives: Early British Columbia Textbooks from 1872 to 1925

By Harro Van Brummelen

BC Studies no. 60 Winter 1983-1984 | Page(s) 3-27

education textbooks children

Home Away: A Thematic Study of Some British Columbia Novels

By George Bowering

BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | Page(s) 9-28

literature

Law Enforcement in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia: A Brief and Comparative Overview

By Hamar Foster

BC Studies no. 63 Autumn 1984 | Page(s) 3-28

Colony of British Columbia law Douglas Sir James

Discoveries and Dissimulations: The Impact of Abortion Deaths on Maternal Mortality in British Columbia

By Angus McLaren, Arlene Tigar McLaren

BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 3-26

abortion birth control mortality demography women

Sausage Making in British Columbia’s NDP Government: The Creation of the Land Commission Act, August 1972-April 1973

By Andrew Petter

BC Studies no. 65 Spring 1985 | Page(s) 3-33

government control legislation New Democratic Party agriculture

The Monopoly System of Wildlife Management of the Indians and the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Early History of British Columbia

By Georgian Ball

BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 37-58

aboriginal people

British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape

Read British Columbia by the Road backwards. Or forwards. It doesn’t matter. Like the highways themselves, you can drive Ben Bradley’s bright, engaging work on automobility, identity, and landscape in British Columbia’s Interior in different directions. Stop...

Review by Blair Stein

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 175-6

Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care

Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes is a humanistic look at the survivors from one of our nation’s most shameful institutions alongside residential schools: segregated healthcare facilities and the treatment of Indigenous peoples within these spaces....

Review by Nicole M. Schafenacker

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 178-9

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...

Review by Carole Blackburn

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 187-8

The Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in British Columbia

My childhood vacations did not involve the sophisticated technology that keeps my children (relatively) quiet in the backseat today. Apart from what I recall to be my endless patience on those long and winding drives...

Review by Darcy Ingram

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 188-9