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The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1951
Despite the rich historiography of women and work in Canada, we know very little about the history of female self-employment in this country. Historians have tended to focus on women who worked for wages,...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 138-139
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The Business of Power: Hydroelectricity in Southeastern British Columbia, 1897-1997
When Jeremy Mouat’s The Business of Power first came out in 1997, both Cominco and West Kootenay Power and Light, the main corporate subjects of Mouat’s book (the latter of which commissioned it), had recently...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 206-207
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John McLoughlin’s Business Correspondence, 1847-48
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 25, Spring 1975
BC Studies no. 25 Spring 1975 | Page(s) 138-40
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Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974
A few exceptions aside, the remarkable escalation of books that have investigated British Columbia’s forests and forest economy in recent years have not paid much attention to labour. Yet labour’s role is vital to the evolution...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 155-7
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At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver, 1937-1998
The historical photography section of the Vancouver Public Library is one of Vancouver’s unexplored treasure troves. Among many other gems, it holds the prints and negatives produced by seven photographers under the auspices of a...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 146-47
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Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community
The Alaska Highway runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska. Built by the American military for defense purposes during the Second World War, it was opened to the public in 1948 and...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 181-2
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The Ker Family of Victoria, 1859- 1976: Pioneer Industrialists in Western Canada
Approached by David Nation Ker to document the history of his family in British Columbia since Robert Ker’s arrival in 1859, John Adams has produced an engaging narrative, principally focused on the lives and careers...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 196-8
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Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family
Buckerfield tells the story of one of Vancouver’s most important business families. The story is structured around two narrative strands. One is the business history of the family patriarch, Edward Ernest Buckerfield, the New Brunswick-born...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 177-78
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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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Stella: Unrepentant Madam
Linda Eversole’s biography of Victoria madam Stella Carroll (1872-1946) is listed on the book cover as fitting into two genres: “creative non-fiction” and “history.” It’s an interesting division for an interesting book. Having spent more...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 107-9
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Pioneer Jews of British Columbia
Pioneer Jews of British Columbia is a compilation of articles that first appeared in two journals, Western States Jewish History and The Scribe, dealing with Jewish settlement in British Columbia in the nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 134-5
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A Silent Revolution? Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
A Silent Revolution? is a fascinating study of female capitalists in Victoria and Hamilton at the turn of the twentieth century. Peter Baskerville employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to establish that women were willing...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 136-8
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Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded our Schools
Corporate involvement in Canadian schools is an emotional topic. There are alarmists, like some of the teachers’ federations. They long for public education’s halcyon days and warn vaguely of nefarious “neoliberals” set to “privatize.” There...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 113-114
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Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time
How do you turn a relatively modest copper mining play on Lake Temagami in the 1950s into Canada’s largest diversified mining company, with a market capitalization in 2017 of nearly $14 billion? In telling the...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 190-1
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The Encyclopedia of Commercial Drive to 1999
Cafes, pasta and pizza restaurants, very affordable produce markets, carnivalesque community events, and grassroots political demonstrations: all of these are the kaleidoscope one envisions when picturing the East side Vancouver neighbourhood of Grandview. The retail...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 180
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Milk Spills and One-Log Loads: Memories of a Pioneer Truck Driver
Milk Spills and One-Log Loads is the first of two autobiographical volumes relating the life of Frank White, one of the early fixtures of British Columbia’s independent trucking industry. Profanity and profundity are laid out...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 213-14
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Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History
Historians of British Columbia have devoted considerable attention to how its economy and social geography were shaped by different kinds of transportation, from sailing vessels and trails to wagon roads and railways. However, automobiles and...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 192-193
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Danger, Death and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902-28
The Crowsnest Pass coal-mining communities serve as the backdrop for Karen Buckley’s study of danger, death, and disaster. Her objective is to examine personal and community responses to death and to “gain a clearer understanding...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 129-31
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Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell’s Canyon High Dam Controversy
This is a book about why something did not happen. It is not quite counter-factual history, but it is an approach that works to remind us that nothing is inevitable. In the postwar Northwest, nothing,...