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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
THE NATURE OF GOLD is in several ways a path-breaking work since, although there is a large literature on Yukon environment, there has been very little written on the environmental history of the Territory, and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 126-8
Book Review
The Mapmaker’s Eye: Douglas Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
More than an exhibition catalogue but every bit that as well, Jack Nisbet’s Mapmaker’s Eye takes its reader farther into Anglo-Welsh-Canadian explorer David Thompson’s five years (1808-12) on the Pacific Slope than has any previous...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 183-6
Book Review
Too Small to See, Too Big to Ignore: Child Health and Well-being
AS THE MOST RECENT Statistics Canada reports tell us, poverty continues to stalk British Columbia’s youngest citizens. Their distress, with outcomes measured pitilessly in shortfalls in nutrition, education, and health, is directly associated with the...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 190-2
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The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
WRITING IN Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534 (University of Toronto Press, 1984, 250) of seventeenth-century Jesuit missions to the Huron, John Webster Grant quoted a Huron man...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 184-6
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Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1902
PDF – Wickwire Review Essay, BC Studies 138/139, Summer/Autumn 2003
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 165-72
Book Review
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
COMPANY TOWNS – once ubiquitous across the greater North American West – usually originated in the corporate need for labour in isolated areas of resource extraction. Even those who remember favourably their experiences in company...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 128-9
Book Review
With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
We might as well name the elephant in the room. The editors did. The book’s first sentence, back cover, and promotional material all imply a fear that it will be received as “an apologist text”...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 116-8
Book Review
Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality: A Vital Link
Canadian Aboriginal Art And Spirituality: A Vital Link acknowledges right from the start that Aboriginal art forms in Canada have historically been misinterpreted as mere “craft” and that the all-important spiritual foundations of such art...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 114-5
Book Review
The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America
I must declare an “interest” in this book. Its pictorial dimension consists of reproductions of superb sepia prints made from original glass negatives sold to the Capital Group Foundation by James Graybill, grandson of their...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 113-5
Book Review
Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
In 2002, the National Maritime Museum in London published Captain Cook in the Pacific, introduced by Glyn Williams, with the succeeding chapters written by Nigel Rigby and Pieter van der Merwe. The present book by...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 135-7
Book Review
Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon’s 1945 Field Notebooks
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 130, Summer 2001
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 118-21
Book Review
The Seattle Bungalow: People and Houses, 1900-1940
As Janet Ore says in the preface to this book, she seeks to overturn many assumptions associated with the bungalow. First, she wishes to reexamine the universality of its Arts and Crafts credentials and assumed...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 147-8
Book Review
Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
If you tackle this readable but detailed history of imperial rivalry in the Pacific Northwest, I recommend that you reread the preface after finishing the book. It will help to explain what you just read....
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 116-7
Book Review
The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island
As a subject for cartography and historical geography, Vancouver Island has many attractions. Islands are uniquely advantaged in this regard, bordered as they are by waters and seas. The Enlightenment demanded scientific designations and definitions...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 148-49
Book Review
Red Dog, Red Dog
Due to the strong tourism and leisure economy of British Columbia, the Okanagan Valley has become primarily associated with orchards, beaches, and, most recently, award-winning vineyards – in short, the Okanagan Valley is synonymous with...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 138-9
Book Review
The Spencer Mansion: A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s The Spencer Mansion, A House, a Home and an Art Gallery is, as the title suggests, really two books. One half considers the “life and times” of the five families who made...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 133-134
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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century
The field of Canadian environmental history has blossomed over the past two decades. Consequently, instructors of Canadian environmental history courses are becoming increasingly spoiled with good options to choose from for course readers. In all...