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Father Pandosy: Pioneer of Faith in the Northwest
Over the course of a ministry that spanned nearly half a century, Catholic missionary Jean-Charles Pandosy witnessed and participated in one of the most dramatic regional transformations in human history. Whereas Pandosy described his mission...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 201-02
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British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest: Ecology, Conservation, and Management
“These two streams at the foot of the hills have formed a wide alluvial, on which are forest trees of enormous size; the white cedars were from fifteen to thirty six feet girth, clean grown...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 211-212
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition 3rd Edition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 132-3
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Chicken Poop for the Soul: In Search of Food Sovereignty
Chicken Poop for the Soul is, in part, a personal journal documenting Kristeva Dowling’s quest to take more control of the food she consumes by spending eighteen months growing, foraging, bartering, hunting, and fishing for...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 146-48
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The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
There are few issues in British Columbia more divisive than aquaculture. With their new book, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews provide a timely, well-documented, and clearly articulated step back from the aquaculture fray. The impetus...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 148-152
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UBC: The First 100 Years
With its heavy glossy paper, large format, and copious illustrations, this looks like a celebratory coffee table book. To classify it as such would be wrong. Drawing on previous histories of the University of British...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11
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Up Chute Creek: An Okanagan Idyll
In the early 1970s, Melody Hessing and her husband Jay Lewis bought acreage in the south Okanagan near Naramata. They called their property the Granite Farm. They were idealists, hoping to build a house and...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 114-5
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Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
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Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia
Evergreen Playland is the dvd version of the movie of the same name that was part of the exhibition “Free Spirits: Stories of You, Me and BC,” held at the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 203-5
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Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
For anyone familiar with environmental history, Stephen J. Pyne is as synonymous with the word “fire” as is Smokey the Bear. As a former firefighter in the Grand Canyon, a renowned historian at Arizona State...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 145-146
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Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
British Columbia is noteworthy among Canadian provinces for its paucity of good farmland. Too much is rocky, the coastal forests are daunting, a great deal is arid, elevations are too great to support crops, and...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 141-3
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British Columbia, The Pacific Province: Geographical Essays
UNTIL RECENTLY, geographers looking for a reasonably comprehensive, but decidedly current, introductory text or compilation of essays having a regional and/or thematic focus on the geography of British Columbia had little with which to work....