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Under the Gaze of George Vancouver: The University of British Columbia and the Provincial Government, 1913-1939

By Michiel Horn

BC Studies no. 83 Autumn 1989 | Page(s) 29-67

education University of British Columbia Depression government control Weir George M.

Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation

Rarely does a book cover depict a Canadian athlete with claims to a major role in academic life and advocacy politics, but this is no ordinary cover. The front of Playing for Change depicts young Bruce Kidd,...

Review by PearlAnn Reichwein

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 238-239

The Emergence of Metropolitan Government in Greater Vancouver

By David Zirnhelt

BC Studies no. 15 Autumn 1972 | Page(s) 3-28

government control municipal government Vancouver

Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments is a fascinating set of essays edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones. Its overall argument is that threats to the environment pose not simply technical or...

Review by John Thistle

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 204-205

The Slow Farm

A memoir, The Slow Farm, focuses largely on the brief period during which Tarn Wilson lived on Texada Island with her American parents and younger sister Rima. Arriving in 1973, the then four-year-old and her...

Review by Connie Brim

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 195-196

The Hankin Appointment, 1868

By Robert L. Smith

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | Page(s) 26-39

Colony of British Columbia Colony of Vancouver Island Hankin Philip

Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914

This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...

Review by Alexander Howlett

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140

The Kennedy Interlude, 1864-66

By Robert L. Smith

BC Studies no. 47 Autumn 1980 | Page(s) 66/78

Colony of Vancouver Island politics Kennedy Arthur Edward

Working Class Vancouver, 1886-1914: Urbanism and Class in British Columbia

By Robert A.J. McDonald

BC Studies no. 69-70 Spring-Summer 1986 | Page(s) 33-69

business labour force strikes and lockouts environment Identities Sexuality socialism

City-Building in the Canadian West: A Case Study of Economic Growth in Early Vancouver, 1886-1893

By Robert A.J. McDonald

BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | Page(s) 3-28

economic development railways Vancouver

Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada’s Great War Memorial Statuary

In the two decades following the Great War, Canadian sculptors, architects and stonemasons produced over four thousand war monuments in the form of plaques, shafts, crosses, obelisks, stelae and figurative sculptures. Some were paid for...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 146-148

The Lion and the Emperor: The Mormons, The Hudson’s Bay Company and Vancouver Island 1846-1858

By Arran Jewsbury, Richard Bennett

BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 37-62

colonization Colony of Vancouver Island Hudson's Bay Company religion

The Amazing Mazie Baker: The Squamish Nation’s Warrior Elder

I grew up ten minutes away from Eslha7án, the Mission Indian Reserve, in what is today known as North Vancouver, which is part of the territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw or Squamish Nation. Yet I...

Review by Sean Carleton

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 156-158

The Colonization of Vancouver Island, 1849-1858

By Richard Somerset Mackie

colonization Colony of Vancouver Island Douglas Sir James Hudson's Bay Company land settlement Identities Sexuality

Community Forestry in Canada: Lessons from Policy and Practice

In Community Forestry in Canada, Sara Teitelbaum brings together a rich array of case studies –including four cases focused on British Columbia – that depict the remarkable variation in regional dynamics within community forestry politics...

Review by Erika Bland

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 158-159

Vancouver’s ‘Red Menace’ of 1935: The Waterfront Situation

By Richard McCandless

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | Page(s) 56-70

Depression trade unions communism maritime history socialism

Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle

Storming the Digital Divide: The PovNet Story

Review by Eryk Martin

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Pages 163-165

Conservative Protestantism and the Modernist Challenge in Vancouver, 1917-1927

By Robert K. Burkinshaw

BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 24-44

religion Vancouver Oliver French E.

Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies

Over the last ten years, Canada has seen recurring waves of protest including Occupy, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter, among others. This collection provides an account of the role of protest in contemporary...

Review by Miriam Smith

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 165-166

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Vancouver Island: The Establishment and Growth of the Mormon Community

By Robert J. McCue

BC Studies no. 42 Summer 1979 | Page(s) 51-64

religion Vancouver Island

Queer Mobilizations: Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy

Politics of Belonging

Review by Anika Stafford

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Pages 166-168

Vancouver Civic Politics, 1929-1980

By Paul Tennant

BC Studies no. 46 Summer 1980 | Page(s) 3-27

Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE) elections municipal government non-partisan association political parties politics

Bringing Water to Victoria: An Illustrated History, 1843-1915

Little is as intimate and political as the water that flows from city taps. We fill our bodies with it, we wash our babies in it. Many of us depend on the state to provide...

Review by Adele Perry

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 160-161

Business Devices from Two Worlds: The Chinese in Early Vancouver

By Paul Yee

BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | Page(s) 44-67

business chinese Vancouver