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Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800-1850
Through his publication BC Book World, Alan Twigg has contributed enormously to generating interest in BC literature. As well as drawing attention to BC writers, Twigg has also published his own work, of which Thompson’s...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 159-60
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The Canadian Rangers: A Living History
Today the Canadian Rangers are noted as a unique unit within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), created to establish a military presence in remote coastal and northern regions by utilizing mainly Aboriginal volunteers. Lackenbauer’s extensive...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 162-64
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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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Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
A book of this kind – large and sumptuous, rich with colour photo graphs of historical and more recent Haida art from the Northwest Coast, and featuring a dozen essays by Haida and non-Native contributors...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 117-9
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
This book represents an expanded form of the much debated revelations of Samuel Bawlf concerning the Pacific Ocean explorations of Francis Drake during his 1577–80 voyage of circumnavigation. Parts of the voyage account are well known,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 101-3
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Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education
This collection of essays is edited by Sara Burke, a historian, and Patrick Milewski, a sociologist and former elementary school teacher, at Laurentian University. The title, Schooling in Transition, reflects the editors’ belief that public...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 165-67
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Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970
In this interesting book, Michael Dawson studies the rise of a tourist economy in British Columbia over the course of the twentieth century. At the heart of the story are loosely related groups of tourist...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 103-5
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Voyage Through the Past Century
First, a disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been related to Cyril Belshaw. This is pertinent because Cyril — a distinguished University of British Columbia academic whose international notoriety is, shall we...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 165-68
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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
This book is a must-read for people interested in Canadian history, gender, and electoral politics in Canada. I cannot say enough about Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments, which includes chapters written by...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 231-32
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Harold Mortimer-Lamb: The Art Lover
Harold Mortimer-Lamb lived an extraordinary life — all ninety-nine years of it. Born in England in 1872, he came to British Columbia at the age of seventeen, initially to work on Captain L.N. Agassiz’s Fraser...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 150-52
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Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
I vividly remember when I first heard the name “Svend Robinson.” I was attending the wedding of a distant cousin I had never met before and have not seen since. At the reception, in Burnaby,...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 223-25
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Railway Rock Gang
Gary Sim worked for BC Rail rock gangs from 1978 until 1987. He gained first-hand experience in many facets of railway operations and maintenance that were the gangs’ day to day work: blasting, tree falling,...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 218-19
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Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965-73
During the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of draft-age Americans came north to Canada to avoid military service and protest the war in Vietnam. A few were deported, and others left voluntarily; but most...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 164-66
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Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Winter in the western mountains of Canada and the United States is a challenging time of year. Encounters in Avalanche Country provides insight into the experiences of trappers, miners, railway employees, and their communities in...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 212-13
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Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
Selling Sex draws in many authors who have long been involved in the struggle to decriminalize sex work in Canada. The volume offers chapters written by academics, activists, and sex industry workers. Together they make...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 156-57
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The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle
Here is an indispensable book — a mature, well-researched, subtly theorized, and clearly-written guide to the past and present of British Columbia’s left. Writing at a time of perplexity for leftists, predisposed to question themselves...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 159-60
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Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island
A friend said recently that he didn’t think much of the new generation of histories about British Columbia’s “back-to-the-landers” in the 1960s and seventies. Because if you weren’t there, then the stories just don’t mean...