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Death in the Peaceable Kingdom: Canadian History since 1867 Through Murder, Execution, Assassination and Suicide
Two decades ago, a prominent conservative academic smacked down Canadian university instructors with the provocatively-titled Who Killed Canadian History? J.L. Granatstein’s answer was, in part, social history and the historians who taught it. Social historian...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 148-149
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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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Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
Students must become aware of how ambition, self-gratification, power, and control as purposes for learning are forms of self-deception that must be avoided because they lead eventually to the misuse of knowledge and the further...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 152-153
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Belonging Métis
The title of Belonging Métis is apt because the book illuminates the common twenty-first century Métis condition of yearning for belonging. Having been alienated from their geographical homeland on the Prairies beginning in 1870 when...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 153-154
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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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Community Forestry in Canada: Lessons from Policy and Practice
In Community Forestry in Canada, Sara Teitelbaum brings together a rich array of case studies –including four cases focused on British Columbia – that depict the remarkable variation in regional dynamics within community forestry politics...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 158-159
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Growing Up Weird: A Memoir of an Oak Bay Childhood
In Growing Up Weird: A Memoir of an Oak Bay Childhood, author Liz Maxwell Forbes provides a very personal account of childhood in a British Columbia community in the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing from her...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 168-169
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The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller
I was a third-year undergraduate at UBC in 1990 when Bruce Miller joined the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, launching his second career after having taught high school. Between 1991 and 1994 I took several...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 158-159
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A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda Ambrose has taken on the challenging task of telling the life story of a woman who left behind no personal diaries or papers and only a fragmented paper trail....
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 166-167
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Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners’ Strike
Arthur “Slim” Evans has long been a notable figure in Canadian labour history, most often associated with the famed On-to-Ottawa Trek that he led in 1935 in an effort to improve conditions in the relief...