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Edward S. Curtis, Above the Medicine Line: Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West
Of all the dozens of professional photographers who have directed their cameras at North America’s first human settlers, no name is more synonymous with the words Indian and photographer than that of Edward S. Curtis...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 184-5
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Here is Where We Disembark
In her first novel, Hetty Dorval, Ethel Wilson identifies genius loci, the spirit of place, as both a guardian deity (“an incalculable godling”) and the home-shaping presence of landscape. For poets Clea Roberts and...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 179-180
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Pioneers, Pedlars, and Prayer Shawls. The Jewish Communities in British Columbia and the Yukon
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 42, Summer 1979
BC Studies no. 42 Summer 1979 | Page(s) 70-1
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Natural Resources of British Columbia and the Yukon
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 35, Autumn 1977
BC Studies no. 35 Autumn 1977 | Page(s) 67-9
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The Last Frontier: A History of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987
BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 42-4
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Part of the Land, Part of the Water: A History of the Yukon Indians
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 81, Spring 1989
BC Studies no. 81 Spring 1989 | Page(s) 81-3
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Canada’s Colonies: A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 76, Winter 1987/88
BC Studies no. 76 Winter 1987-1988 | Page(s) 88-90
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Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934
How many Canadians know exactly where Nome is? Yes, we know it’s in Alaska, though the author of this book may not be confident that all readers will know, since he names the state as...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 153-4
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Hills of Silver: The Yukon’s Mighty Keno Hill Mine
Aaro Aho’s book serves several masters. First and foremost, it is the song of Keno Hill and those who prospected, worked, and lived the life of the rich silver-lead mines. Silver ore was first discovered...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 154-5
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A Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 103, Autumn 1994
BC Studies no. 103 Autumn 1994 | Page(s) 89-91
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Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five
The sinking of the BC Ferries vessel Queen of the North on 22 March 2006 has brought the lives of British Columbia’s coastal residents into sharp and extraordinary focus. It is a safe bet that...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 98-9
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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
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Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
IT WAS WITH SOME excitement and a little trepidation that I agreed to review Bill Miller’s book. First of all, my father, George Ball, was a Yukon Telegraph Line operator in the early years; and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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Women and the White Man’s God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
THOUGH THE ENCOUNTER between missionaries and Aboriginals continues to fascinate, the tables have dramatically turned. Where once missionaries saw it as part of their task to explain Aboriginal culture to a White society, in today’s...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 189-90
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The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 124, Winter 1999
BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 104-5
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Wrong Highway: The Misadventures of a Misplaced Society Girl
Wrong Highway is the memoir of Stella Jenkins, a middle-class mother of four from Victoria, who in 1948, recently divorced, formed a relationship with Bob Smith, a trapper and labourer. Stella left Victoria with her...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 136-137
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Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail: Exploring the Route of the Klondike Cattle Drives
Although the Chilkoot Trail is the most famous trail to the Klondike, there were a wide variety of other routes that gold seekers used to reach the interior of the Yukon between 1896 and 1900....
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 142-143
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Tse-loh-ne (The People at the End of the Rocks): Journey Down the Davie Trail
Keith Billington has had a long career as a nurse in British Columbia and the Yukon as well as being Band Manager for the Fort Ware Sekani/Kaska band (later known as Kwadacha Nation). The first part...