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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the catalogue of arguably one of the most important exhibitions of Canadian art in recent history, which in turn dealt with one of the most transformative art movements...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 176-77
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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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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada
Theorists of modernity have often been particularly blind to the roles of gender. In numerous otherwise thought-provoking theoretical works on modernity, gender either disappears from the analysis or is treated awkwardly. Historians, to a degree,...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 117-9
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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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Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
In 2002, the National Maritime Museum in London published Captain Cook in the Pacific, introduced by Glyn Williams, with the succeeding chapters written by Nigel Rigby and Pieter van der Merwe. The present book by...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 135-7
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
In late July 1924 in a house in the upper crust neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, around midday, a Scots nursemaid was found dead in the basement by the Chinese “house boy,” Wing Fong Sing....
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 185-187
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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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Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community
The authors, Ann-Lee Switzer and Gordon Switzer are both historians and writers with an interest in the Japanese Canadian experience. Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community is a rich history of the Japanese...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 180-182
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Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
Vancouver’s famous park has received a lot of attention, including from notable historians like Jean Barman and Robert A. J. McDonald, prominent artists like Emily Carr, and a continuous collection of journalists and tourism writers...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73
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Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians
The biographies in Deadlines died between 2001 and 2011, had sufficient importance or interest to be have their obituaries published in the Toronto Globe and Mail or be considered for it, and had at least...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 172-73
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The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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Greenpeace
VANCOUVER IN THE EARLY 1970S Was a far different place from the “world class” cosmopolis it is today. Home to “draft dodgers” and a Kitsilano counterculture, it was an open space for environmental action, like...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 301-3
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Innocence on Trial: The Framing of Ivan Henry
When Ivan Henry’s wife Jessie contacted Vancouver Police Department (VPD) detectives in 1982, she initiated a series of events that would see her husband spend the next twenty-seven years in prison for crimes he maintained...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 173-174
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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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Following the Curve of Time: The Untold Story of Capi Blanchet
Cathy Converse’s Following the Curve of Time: The Untold Story of Capi Blanchet is a companion piece to Blanchet’s coastal travelogue The Curve of Time and one that enriches its reading. Both monographs offer detailed accounts of...
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Cleaner Greener Smarter: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
The World Health Organization released an update to the Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database on 12 May 2016, finding that more than 80 percent of people who live in major cities around the world...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 201-203
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Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order
Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order aims to give voice to street-based sex workers in urban Canada, in particular Indigenous women who face intersecting stigma associated with sex work, racism, and...