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Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Ghosts & Gardens
Eve Lazarus is a Vancouver-based freelance writer and self-confessed obsessive blogger about houses and their genealogies. Her passion for history, the arts, old houses, and her community has resulted in three previous books: At Home...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 133-34
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, by Anne Hyde is the second of six volumes scheduled to appear in the “History of the American West” series intended to reflect...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 226-227
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Imperial Vancouver Island: Who was Who 1850-1950
The author of this work, Professor J.F. Bosher, was born in North Saanich near Sidney, British Columbia and raised in a cultured English family. Having retired from York University in Toronto, where he specialized in...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 128-30
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Dispatches From The Occupation: A History of Change
On 25 September 2011, the first “occupiers” began to move into Zuccotti Park. Located near the heart of Wall Street, New York’s financial district, their presence was initially ignored by mainstream media. However, awareness grew...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 152-54
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Fishing the River of Time
Here is an entertaining addition to the shelf of books about Vancouver Island. Depending upon the reader’s own experiences in life, and the breadth of his interests, he may be amused by Taylor’s rambling memories...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 230-231
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Rewriting Marpole: The Path to Cultural Complexity in the Gulf of Georgia Region
Rewriting Marpole is the published version of Clark’s PhD dissertation (Clark, 2010) and an outgrowth of his MA thesis (Clark, 2000). The goal of his research “is to determine the spatial...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 218-223
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Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams
The story of Greek mariner Juan de Fuca’s report to English merchant Michael Lok, in Venice in 1592, of the entrance to a waterway on the northwest coast of North America around the parallel 48ËšN...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 225-226
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Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247
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Emily Carr: Collected
Two weeks after Emily Carr’s death on 3 March 1945, former Group of Seven artist, Lawren Harris, travelled from his home in Vancouver to Victoria. As the artistic executor of Carr’s estate it fell upon...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 160-61
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Company, Crown and Colony: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada
In essence, this is a study of governorship, or governorships — Richard Blanshard to Frederick Seymour, with Sir James Douglas as the centrepiece of description. The addition of many charts and tables lend it an...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 172-174
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The Inverted Pyramid
In 2011, the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia celebrated Vancouver’s 125th anniversary with the Vancouver Legacy Book Collection, reissuing ten books that it deemed best representative of British Columbia’s social and literary history....
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 232-234
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K’esu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer
Jennifer Kramer’s book K’esu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer was written to accompany the Museum of Anthropology’s 2012 landmark retrospective exhibit about the life and work of the internationally renowned Kwakwaka’wakw artist Doug...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 155-57
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The Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The CPR steam years, 1905-1949
While the roundhouses are now mostly silent and only the occasional freight train makes its way up and down the island, the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N) occupies a prominent place in Vancouver Island’s history....
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 130-32
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The Amazing Foot Race of 1921: Halifax to Vancouver in 134 Days
Three teams left Halifax in a 3,645-mile pedestrian race to Vancouver in 1921. Amateur sportsman Charles Burkman was first to head west on 17 January, followed a few days later by Jack and Clifford Behan,...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 184-185
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Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
As the angry, impetuous, and disobedient stepchild of rock-and-roll, punk has become an increasingly popular topic for academic and popular writers. Yet, as Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth demonstrates, Canadian contributions have often gone unnoticed. In...