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Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
In Sailing with Vancouver, the late maritime writer Sam McKinney follows the path of Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 expedition through the Pacific Northwest’s inland waters. Part saltwater travelogue, part historical reflection, McKinney uses the region’s...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 151-153
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Following the Curve of Time: The Untold Story of Capi Blanchet
Cathy Converse’s Following the Curve of Time: The Untold Story of Capi Blanchet is a companion piece to Blanchet’s coastal travelogue The Curve of Time and one that enriches its reading. Both monographs offer detailed accounts of...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
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Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir
Chasing Smoke is a memoir centered on Aaron Williams’ account of being a wildland firefighter in British Columbia during the 2014 fire season. Williams managed fire as a Telkwa Ranger, a wildland firefighter at the Telkwa...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 150-151
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Building a Collaborative Advantage: Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
With 235,000 people experiencing homelessness each year in Canada, the nature and quality of the state response are crucial to preventing and ultimately ending homelessness. Doberstein’s analysis of the role governance networks –groups of community...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
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Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
Today we live in a consumer-oriented culture in which material items help to define who we are, or, who we want to be. To meet our material needs, stores are now open seven days a...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 192-193
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Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food
With its over 250 prose and poetry narratives, biographies, and recipes, Rachel Rose has edited a timeless anthology, Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food. Rose, named Vancouver’s poet laureate in 2014,...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 222-223
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Where it Hurts
Where it Hurts, by Sarah De Leeuw, is a collection of essays within the genre of creative non-fiction. The vivid essays express loss, trauma and humor. De Leeuw uses complex imagery that takes the reader...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 158-189
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Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest
The authors of Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest attempt to expand our understanding of the development of two nations, and a border between them, from a mostly political story...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 194-195
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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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Raven Walks Around the World
In Raven Walks Around the World, Henley shares parts of his personal journey of activism, travel, and life long work with Indigenous peoples around the world. Through his stories, Henley illuminates the determination of all...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 180-181
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Inner Ranges: An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People
Inner Ranges: An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People is a collection of mountain-inspired pieces written throughout Geoff Powter’s thirty-year career. The book guides the reader through his life’s journey as he explores mountains and...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 148-149
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Kwädąy Dän Ts’inchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found
Sometime between 1720 and 1850, late in summer, an eighteen-year-old man was traveling in an icefield in the present-day territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. Well...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 171-2
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British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape
Read British Columbia by the Road backwards. Or forwards. It doesn’t matter. Like the highways themselves, you can drive Ben Bradley’s bright, engaging work on automobility, identity, and landscape in British Columbia’s Interior in different directions. Stop...