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Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects & Journeys
NUU-CHAH-NULTH VOICES, Histories, Objects &Journeys is an anthology produced to complement Out of the Mist: HuupuKwanum—Tupaat, Treasure of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs, an exhibition mounted in April 2000 by the Royal British Columbia Museum in conjunction with...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 123-4
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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
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Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick
The recent passing of Beau Dick makes this documentary film both a testament and an affirmation of an extraordinary life. More than a recitation of the chronology of his life, the filmmakers have created a...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 160-161
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Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
The 40th anniversary reprint of the original, classic study, Indian Fishing,has arrived. Its author is the multi-talented graphic artist, photographer, archeological fieldworker/ethnographer, and museum exhibit curator, the late Hilary Stewart. For only one of these many skills...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 151-152
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The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake
In recent years, the historiography of British Columbia has burgeoned. Much of this rich and growing scholarship focuses on the province as a whole, or on its urban centres. We still have much to learn...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157
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L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
MANY NORTH AMERICAN cities have had great civic leaders. Fiorello La Guardia, New York’s Depression-era mayor, is considered the father of modern New York; Metro chair Fred Gardiner put his distinctive imprint on Toronto in the...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 128-30
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Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia
Megan Davies’s carefully worked study on residential care for the aged in British Columbia does in deed take us into the “house of old.” And it is a sad journey, made more resonant to many...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 87-9
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Carrying on Irregardless: Humour In Contemporary Northwest Coast Art
An exhibition and catalogue devoted to humour in contemporary Northwest Coast art was long overdue. Martine Reid’s and Peter Morin’s Carrying on Irregardless: Humour In Contemporary Northwest Coast Art positions itself as the Northwest Coast...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 157-58
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Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
The study of indigenous history is fundamentally interdisciplinary and benefits, as Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia illustrates, from consideration of different forms of data from a range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. The challenge...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 144-46
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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...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 156-158
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A World Apart: The Crowsnest Communities of Alberta and British Columbia
A WORLD APART, edited by Wayne Norton and Tom Langford, is a solid collection of essays and memoirs about the experience of living and working in the Crowsnest Pass communities of Alberta and British Columbia in the twentieth...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 192-4
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Brian Jungen
The book provides an overview of the career of the artist Brian Jungen, consisting of essays by Daina Augaitis and four other notable curators — Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ralph Rugoff, Kitty Scott, and Trevor Smith. The...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice
This edited volume of modern BC birthing stories will be a compelling read for anyone with a personal or professional interest in the rich drama of childbirth. Not intended as a scholarly text, the sixty...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 187-88
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Architecture and the Canadian Fabric
Broad in scope and filled with both insight and intriguing fact, Architecture and the Canadian Fabric positions itself in a productive cleft between architectural and political discussion — discussion largely attentive to the perennial interest...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 183-4
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Three Athapaskan Ethnographies: Diamond Jenness on the Sekani, Tsuu T’ina and Wet’suwet’en, 1921-1924
Diamond Jenness was a diligent and talented ethnographer, and the years 1921-1924 were particularly productive. In the summer of 1921 he visited the Sarcee (Suuu T’ina) of Alberta and wrote a report based on “field-notes...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 139-141
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The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity and Quality of Life in Western Canada
The Last Best West is an eclectic collection of chapters based loosely on the meaning and mythology of the advertising slogan used by the Canadian government around the turn of the twentieth century to attract...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 110-2
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Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
THE TASK APPEARS straightforward – in this case, to read W.H. New’s monumental Encyclopedia ofLiterature in Canada for information on BC writing. There is, usefully, an entry on British Columbia (unsigned, meaning “written by New”):...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 108-12
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Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University
This fine piece of work provides new insights into the way the nature and culture of life in Canadian universities changed during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Based on a careful review...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 149-150
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Jacob’s Prayer: Loss and Resilience at Alkali Lake
Recently, historians have taken the “affective turn,” that is, they have begun paying particular attention to emotion and sensation. Jacob’s Prayer, which documents the relationships between hopeful young teachers in 1970s British Columbia and Esket,...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 105
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Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools, A Memoir.
Canadians who advise survivors of Native residential schools to “ just get over it” should read Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools. Author Theodore Fontaine, cousin of the more famous Phil, attended...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 131-32
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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,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 238-239
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Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918, More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...