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Last Dance in Shediac: Memories of Mum, Molly Lamb Bobak
This is a very peculiar book. Although its subject is an artist, the Vancouver-born painter Molly Lamb Bobak, the first female war artist in Canada, there is little about Bobak’s art. Molly Bobak did much more...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 168-169
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Celebration: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian Dancing on the Land
Concerned that not all Native Alaskan children had the opportunity to learn their communities’ ancient songs and dances or to participate in traditional ceremony, the fledging Native non-profit Sealaska Heritage Institute decided to hold a...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 137-8
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The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
In their recent edited collection, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005), Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton call for a renewed focus on gender as a category of historical analysis, positioning “the...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 104-5
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The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
Thirty years ago, my husband and I were having dinner at the Da Tandoor restaurant in Victoria with the incomplete executive of the League of Canadian Poets. All eyes were on the door. Would Pat...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 97-9
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Philip Timm’s Vancouver: 1900-1910
I first met Fred Thirkell in the late 1970s when I ran an antique store in North Vancouver. Fred was a postcard collector, and we played the familiar dance between buyer and seller in the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 154-6
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Phantom Limb
A phantom limb is an amputated arm or leg that feels like it hasn’t gone anywhere. At the end of a phantom arm, for instance, the fingers of a phantom hand still feel heat, the touch...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 123-5
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Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West
In Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West, editor Jim Ellis has assembled scholarly writing, insightful commentary, and engaging visual imagery to better understand the myriad human connections to water in Alberta. Though geographically focused in...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 154-156
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Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) Curator of Western Subarctic Ethnology, has produced a lavishly illustrated book, compelling for its quality of images, clarity of writing, and elegance of design. Seventy-one rarely published and...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 118-20
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Sonny Assu: A Selective History
This comprehensive survey of Sonny Assu’s work is prefaced by four incisive essays by prominent indigenous scholars and curators. This beautifully designed and thoughtfully organized book covers significant phases in the Kwakwaka’ wakw artist’s career,...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 207
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Uninterrupted
Editorial note: Uninterrupted is reviewed here following its role as inspiration for a nightly ‘cinematic spectacle’ on Vancouver’s Cambie Street Bridge during the summer of 2017 (see uninterrupted.ca). Uninterrupted, a film about a very special...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 198-9
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Landscape Architecture in Canada
Landscape Architecture in Canada is Ron Williams’ magnum opus, the likely capstone of a distinguished career as researcher, teacher, and practitioner. It is a fine scholarly effort, more than fifteen years in the making. Until...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 136-38
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Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada’s Great War Memorial Statuary
In the two decades following the Great War, Canadian sculptors, architects and stonemasons produced over four thousand war monuments in the form of plaques, shafts, crosses, obelisks, stelae and figurative sculptures. Some were paid for...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 146-148
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Now You’re Logging
Romance, high drama with runaway logging trucks (26-29), and dangerous river crossings of donkey engines (65-72) are all integral parts of this graphic portrayal of British Columbia’s coastal logging scene during the 1930s. Although Griffiths...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 163-64
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The Grande Dames of the Cariboo
Far too little is known about artistic activity in the interior of British Columbia — past and present alike. Julie Fowler seeks to fill this lacuna by examining the lives of two mother-and-daughter artists: Vivien...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 222-23
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Images from the Likeness House
At the start of Images from the Likeness House, Dan Savard tells us why the photographs he presents of Aboriginal people are important. Put succinctly, it is because of their past and continuing influence on...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 127-8
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Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
“ Who am I,” asks the narrator in an early poem, “Arras,” by P.K. Page, “or, who am I become…?” (144). It’s a question Page was to return to many times, in both her literary...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 197-199
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
In Creative Subversions, Margot Francis starts from the premise that some of the key images that inform Canadian national identity, such as the beaver, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), national parks, and Indians are “public...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 168-9
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V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
V6A is a postal code prefix in Vancouver. It is, thus, an artificial geographical space defined by a bureaucracy housed far from V6A itself. It runs from Burrard Inlet south to False Creek and Great...