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Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
The study of indigenous history is fundamentally interdisciplinary and benefits, as Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia illustrates, from consideration of different forms of data from a range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. The challenge...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 144-46
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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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Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965-73
During the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of draft-age Americans came north to Canada to avoid military service and protest the war in Vietnam. A few were deported, and others left voluntarily; but most...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 164-66
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Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
Selling Sex draws in many authors who have long been involved in the struggle to decriminalize sex work in Canada. The volume offers chapters written by academics, activists, and sex industry workers. Together they make...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 156-57
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Charles Edenshaw
This is the catalogue for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition. Curated and edited by Robin K. Wright, Curator of Native American Art and Director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 147-49
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Captain Paul Watson: Interview with a Pirate
Paul Watson is, without doubt, a controversial figure in green politics. Some name him the impassioned eco-warrior, who puts his life on the line to stop whaling. Others see him as the enfant terrible of...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 179-80
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British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
In British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas, Derek Hayes uses over 900 contemporary maps to illustrate the history of British Columbia. The maps are beautifully reproduced, carefully analyzed in captions, often supported by useful...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51
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The Artist in the Cloister: The Life and Works of Father Dunstan Massey
Art and Roman Catholicism have, for most of the church’s long history, gone hand in hand. And Roman Catholic churches, schools, and abbeys in British Columbia are no exception. During the first decades of the...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 242-44
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Vancouver Anthology
During the 1960s things radically changed in the Canadian art world. Aesthetic categories expanded to include technically based video and multimedia performance art. Traditional art institutions competed with artist-run centres like The Sound Gallery and...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 170-72
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Voyage Through the Past Century
First, a disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been related to Cyril Belshaw. This is pertinent because Cyril — a distinguished University of British Columbia academic whose international notoriety is, shall we...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 165-68
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Sturgeon Reach: Shifting Currents at the Heart of the Fraser
The Fraser River between Mission and Hope has been the cultural hearth of the Stó:lÅ for as long as anyone can remember. Some of British Columbia’s largest Indigenous settlements and most important cultural sites are...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 183-85
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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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Corporate Social Responsibility and the State: International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation
Forest certification has provided fertile ground for social science research and scholarship since the early 1990s. Much of this work has focused on explaining the improbable rise and continuing global significance of the Forest Stewardship...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 180-82
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Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985
Earning a decent living from pottery is difficult. Crafts, in general, do not support high earners. The notion that any amateur can throw a pot has kept professional potters just above the poverty line —...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 147-48
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Yorke Island and the Uncertain War: Defending Canada’s Western Coast during WWII
The Second World War is fading from living memory, and military veterans of that conflict are now rare. Their average age is 87. Given this situation, the author and Danny Brown, a Campbell River Museum...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 233-234
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The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the BC Coast
Promoting an upcoming reading of Don Pepper’s A Life on the Water at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Harbour Publishing exclaims: “Here, finally, is a book about commercial salmon fishing through the eyes of a commercial...