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Rebel Women of the West Coast: Their Triumphs, Tragedies and Lasting Legacies
Rebel Women of the West Coast comprises stories about individual women who, through their talent, perseverance, and determination, were able to overcome patriarchal systems designed to keep them out of professional organizations. Author Rich Mole...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 164-66
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A Walk with the Rainy Sisters: In Praise of British Columbia’s Places
Following in the footsteps of Roderick Haig Brown’s Measure of the Year, Stephen Hume has chosen to tell many tales, some celebratory and some cautionary, to the rhythm of a passing year. Like Grant Lawrence’s...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 131-2
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The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History
Sharron Simpson’s The Kelowna Story offers her clear intention of providing for the people of Kelowna, most of whom are recent arrivals, “a collective memory” (9) about the origin and development of their community. Overall,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 132-33
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Chilliwack’s Chinatowns: A History
Writing about immigrants has long been central to Canadian historical scholarship. Today, the history of immigration also constitutes an essential element of the popular imagination in Canada and, in turn, of our sense of national...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 131-32
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The Private Journal of Captain G. H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862)
Captain (later Admiral Sir) George Henry Richards, Royal Navy, is one of the great personages of that unique era in modern history known as Pax Britannica – a period when “Britain Ruled the Waves,” and sometimes, as...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 119-23
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The Legendary Betty Frank: The Cariboo’s Alpine Queen
As a young girl, Betty Cox (Frank) had some very non-traditional ideas of what she wanted to be when she grew up. She dreamed of riding horses, mushing dogs, and guiding hunters in the northern...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 133-34
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Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains
Richard Mackie’s Mountain Timber is the second volume of a projected three-volume history of the Comox Logging and Railway Company’s operations on Vancouver Island. This volume begins c.1927 with the company’s expansion of its steam-powered...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 156-57
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Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast
This generously illustrated exhibition catalogue introduces the work of forty contemporary First Nations artists, ranging from emerging practitioners such as Shawn Hunt and Alano Edzerza to internationally renowned individuals such as Robert Davidson and Susan...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 132-133
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Imagining British Columbia: Land, Memory & Place
Imagining British Columbia: Land, Memory and Place, edited by Daniel Francis, is a collection of twenty creative non-fiction essays contributed by members of the Federation of British Columbia Writers. The federation invited writers to submit...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 149-150
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Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
Colonists seldom embarked alone to new continents, and so the act of “settling” was often the act of creating a “settlement.” Penelope Edmonds’s Urbanizing Frontiers reminds us that the interface between settler and...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 130-31
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Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World
This book is like an open house for all benevolent and family associations to Victoria’s Chinatown, the oldest in Canada. The reader is introduced to each society and its purpose, through many photographs, some never...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 157-158
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Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada
I am particularly interested in this volume, having been born in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 1938 and having a father who was treasurer of a district association. He was a shirt tailor, and I remember in...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 158-161
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Vancouver’s Bessborough Armoury: a History. Vancouver: The Fifteenth Field Artillery
Victor Stevenson’s longstanding personal and professional attachment to Vancouver’s Bessborough Armoury is reflected in his concise and well-researched account of the building’s history. Having served as both honourary colonel of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment,...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 141-43
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City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties
Lawrence Aronsen’s handsomely-illustrated City of Love and Revolution examines a period of Vancouver’s history that still resonates. The latest contribution to a growing literature on the Sixties in Canada, the book also contributes to contemporary...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 150
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The Beggar’s Garden
When I first picked up Michael Christie’s collection of short stories, The Beggar’s Garden, I worried that it would be an overly romanticized or pitying account of the residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Yet, as...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 145-46
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Opening Doors in Vancouver’s East End: Strathcona
In 1978 the Provincial Archives of British Columbia added a pair of volumes on early Vancouver to its series of aural history publications. These were subsequently brought together as a single monograph in 1979. It...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 154-6
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Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
This may be the most important book on the history of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company Territories published in a generation. Although its purview does not include British Columbia, all historians of...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 143-45
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Mountains So Sublime: Nineteenth-Century British Travellers and the Lure of the Rocky Mountain West
Mountains So Sublime is a thoughtful study of the reactions of Victorian British travellers to the Rocky Mountain West, as expressed through their published travelogues and unpublished diaries and reminiscences. Recently retired from a long...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 128-30
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Chinese Servants in the West: Florence Baillie-Grohman’s “The Yellow and White Agony”
W.A. Baillie-Grohman is known to British Columbians for his aborted plan to build a canal in the East Kootenay and his stories of big game hunting, notably Fifteen Years’ Sport and Life in the Hunting...