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This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge
Tzeporah Berman entered the public consciousness as a twenty-something leader of the Clayoquot Sound logging protests in 1993. Since then, she has served a variety of roles within the environmental movement, having co-founded organizations such...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 235-236
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada
As recently as forty years ago, Sylvia Van Kirk sat in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives in London and asked a completely new question of the business papers of this iconic and long-standing company: “Where...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 175-177
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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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Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the WSANEC People
In Saanich Ethnobotany, Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda describe the land and vegetation of W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich), examine the “many interrelationships between people and plants” (11), and explore the traditional ecological knowledge that allowed local First...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 214-215
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The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
This book is splendid work of popular political history, biography, and related media study that co-authors Geoff Meggs (a former communications director to Premier Glen Clark) and Rod Mickleburgh (a veteran of the west coast...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 151-154
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Murder in the Chilcotin
Author Roy Innes can be forgiven for his less than stellar accuracy in depicting the Cariboo Chilcotin in his recent crime novel, Murder in the Chilcotin. His story-telling prowess, captivating story line, and intriguing plot...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 177-78
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Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography
This is the fifth catalogue published in conjunction with a solo art exhibition by Ian Wallace since 2007. It is also the largest and most handsomely designed of the group, the collaborative product of an...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 159-61
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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...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 151-52
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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...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 150-51
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Memories of Jack Pickup: Flying Doctor of British Columbia
Transportation and communication technologies have played an integral role in modernizing British Columbia by reconfiguring possibilities of movement and exchange. As Cole Harris has pointed out in The Resettlement of British Columbia (1997), the...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 138-40
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Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
The essays and the many previously published texts gathered together in this weighty tome demonstrate the extent to which, over the course of the past 250 years, “the idea of Northwest Coast Native art has...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 193-95
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Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art
Over the past several years Jane Lytton Gooch has published books devoted to the sketches, paintings, and photographs inspired by the landscape of British Columbia and Alberta. Celebrating the centennial of the founding of British...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 170-71
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Chinuk Wawa: Kakwa nsayka ulman-tilixam ɬaska munk-kəmtəks nsayka/As Our Elders Teach Us To Speak It
In an obscure 1978 dissertation, a linguist named Samuel Johnson demonstrated that most of the countless Chinook Jargon lexica compiled over two hundred years form a few distinct lineages.[1] Joining the ranks of definitive dictionaries...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 199-200
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Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
When the Vancouver convention centre was completed in 2009, a series of interpretive panels describing the history of British Columbia were placed along the waterfront promenade. Featured among these panels is the story of “BC’s...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 173-74
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Salmonbellies vs. The World: The Story of the Most Famous Team in Lacrosse & Their Greatest Rivals
In this well-researched, beautifully illustrated book W.B. MacDonald tells the story of the Salmonbellies from their founding to the present, and he does much more. He traces the evolution of lacrosse in the province, beginning...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 167-68
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Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide: Early Ranching in BC and Alberta
I liked this book. It was well written, adequately-researched, and, in my opinion, achieved its author’s purpose. With his tight focus on frontier and early ranching personalities in British Columbia and Alberta, Mather gives the...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 160-61
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Tales from the Back Bumper: A Century of BC Licence Plates
My parents still have a set of white-on-blue licence plates in their garage, kept from the mid-1980s, when British Columbia switched to the blue-on-white plates with waving flag that have now been standard issue for...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 221-22
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In the Shadow of the Great War: The Milligan and Hart Explorations of Northeastern British Columbia, 1913-14
Jay Sherwood has given us another chapter in the story of how the talented surveyors of the early twentieth century put vast areas of northern British Columbia on the map. The places visited by E.B....