Index
Results (500)
Book Review
The Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
Veronica Strong-Boag is one of Canada’s most distinguished women’s historians. One of the major themes of her publishing career has been Canadian women’s struggle for the vote. Strong-Boag’s expertise in the field is very much...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 118-119
article
Book Review
Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Focusing on the “trente glorieuses” period, Tina Loo’s study of how the Canadian welfare-state pursued its promise of universality gives us an in-depth look at five communities: namely Inuit villages in the district of Keewatin...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 110-111
Book Review
Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Between 2011 and 2016, the population of the District of West Vancouver declined by one half of one percent. In contrast, the population of Metro Vancouver grew 6.5%; even the comparably wealthy West Point Grey...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 212-213
Book Review
On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 205-206
Book Review
Apples, etc. An Artist’s Memoir
Apples, etc. An Artist’s Memoir by Gathie Falk, edited by Robin Laurence, is an account of the acclaimed Vancouver-based artist’s life that offers new insight into her tenacious experimentation with the ordinary. Like a grocery list...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 163-165
Book Review
Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
In Sailing with Vancouver, the late maritime writer Sam McKinney follows the path of Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 expedition through the Pacific Northwest’s inland waters. Part saltwater travelogue, part historical reflection, McKinney uses the region’s...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 151-153
article
Book Review
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...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
article
Book Review
Building a Collaborative Advantage: Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
With 235,000 people experiencing homelessness each year in Canada, the nature and quality of the state response are crucial to preventing and ultimately ending homelessness. Doberstein’s analysis of the role governance networks –groups of community...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
Book Review
Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
Today we live in a consumer-oriented culture in which material items help to define who we are, or, who we want to be. To meet our material needs, stores are now open seven days a...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 192-193
Book Review
Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley
Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley is a collection of memoirs by thirty-two women who came to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island in the 1970s. Drawn by an...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 185-187
Book Review
Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought them in 1970s Vancouver
Liminal spaces make places. This is the central theme of Jean Walton’s book, Mudflat Dreaming, an unconventional work of literary nonfiction that weaves together memoir, film studies, and Vancouver history in the 1970s, a pivotal...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 190-192
Book Review
Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food
With its over 250 prose and poetry narratives, biographies, and recipes, Rachel Rose has edited a timeless anthology, Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food. Rose, named Vancouver’s poet laureate in 2014,...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 222-223
article
article
Book Review
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...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 154-155
article
article
Book Review
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...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 175-6
article
Book Review
Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse
In Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse, Lisa Smith transports the reader to late nineteenth century Pacific Northwest and evocatively offers a history of an extraordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Born in...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 186-7
Book Review
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...