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Stewards of the People’s Forests: A Short History of the British Columbia Forest Service
The forest industry was the most important economic activity in British Columbia during the twentieth century. Oddly, except for some consideration of its founding, there has not been a major examination of an institution at...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 126-27
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Investing in Place: Economic Renewal in Northern British Columbia
This book addresses the question of how to bring about sustainable economic and social development in northern British Columbia. It is written from a geographic perspective with influences from policy studies and economics. The authors...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 140-1
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The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle
Here is an indispensable book — a mature, well-researched, subtly theorized, and clearly-written guide to the past and present of British Columbia’s left. Writing at a time of perplexity for leftists, predisposed to question themselves...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 159-60
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“We are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
We read this book as the British Columbia government announced that oil and gas development will be banned in the “Sacred Headwaters,” the vast tract of land in North Central British Columbia where the Nass,...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 224-225
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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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More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...
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Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918, More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 131-133
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Fort St. James and New Caledonia: Where British Columbia Began
Many residents of British Columbia are probably unaware that the settler history of the province began not in the Fraser Valley but in New Caledonia, the north-central interior, a result not of the explorations of...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 107-8
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Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class
JOHN DOUGLAS BELSHAW has provided the historical community with a well-researched, artfully written, and well-indexed account of an important aspect of Vancouver Island coalmining history: the experience of nineteenth-century British immigrant miners. He gives the...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 124-6
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Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry: A Home Child Experience
The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was located near Duncan, British Columbia. Between 1935 and 1950 it accommodated over three hundred underprivileged British children. Marjorie Arnison was one of them. She arrived at the...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 228-230
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Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
This book is not the traditional academic, well-documented research dissertation on the life of Simon Fraser. As Steven Hume states at the beginning, there was no intention of making this a “conventional biography.” This text...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 123-125
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The Rise of Jewish Life and Religion in British Columbia, 1858-1948
The Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia is to be congratulated for publishing Cyril Leonoff’s comprehensive study of the Jewish community of British Columbia from its beginnings to the mid-twentieth century as a 204-page “article”...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 115-6
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Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia
Megan Davies’s carefully worked study on residential care for the aged in British Columbia does in deed take us into the “house of old.” And it is a sad journey, made more resonant to many...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 87-9
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Canoe Crossings: Understanding the Craft That Helped Shape British Columbia
A devoted canoeist, Sanford Osler has used his wide experience with many forms of paddle-craft to write a comprehensive and well-informed review of canoeing and kayaking in British Columbia. His up-to-date and very readable presentation...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 151-52
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Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921
The Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) regiment recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. Popularly known as the Can Scots, it is the only militia unit on Vancouver Island. The regiment had previously been honoured with the freedom...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 145-147
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Pop Culture Confronts British Columbia’s Colonial History
Grand Theft Terra Firma: A Game of Imperial Stickup, Abbotsford, British Columbia, the Reach Gallery Museum, 17 January – 7 May 2017. The exhibition is augmented by several public events, including a live theatrical performance...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 198-200
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Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education
This collection of essays is edited by Sara Burke, a historian, and Patrick Milewski, a sociologist and former elementary school teacher, at Laurentian University. The title, Schooling in Transition, reflects the editors’ belief that public...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 165-67
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Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) Curator of Western Subarctic Ethnology, has produced a lavishly illustrated book, compelling for its quality of images, clarity of writing, and elegance of design. Seventy-one rarely published and...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 118-20
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Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972
Labour historians have been arguing about the left in British Columbia politics and labour for ages. Now, through a skilful conversion of his 2008 University of New Brunswick dissertation “Tug of War,” University of Victoria...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 143-4
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Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience
Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience, edited by Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Leslie T. Foster and David Hultsch, is a collection of 17 chapters on health and aging in British Columbia prepared by 30...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 163-64
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