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Written as I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms taʔaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Sliammon elder Elsie Paul’s grandmother told her in the 1930s that knowing how to harvest food, cook, and raise children was all that a good woman really needed. It was a view said to be...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 113-14
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Canoe Crossings: Understanding the Craft That Helped Shape British Columbia
A devoted canoeist, Sanford Osler has used his wide experience with many forms of paddle-craft to write a comprehensive and well-informed review of canoeing and kayaking in British Columbia. His up-to-date and very readable presentation...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 151-52
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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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Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870
A Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633) was published by command of King Charles I after Thomas James (c.1593-1635) returned from overwintering in James Bay. Dead by 1635, James had nothing to do with the founding...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 160-63
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Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
Mark Abley was understandably alarmed when an impeccably dressed apparition appeared in his living room claiming to be Duncan Campbell Scott. An accomplished and respected poet, Scott spent over fifty years working in Canada’s Department of...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 225-26
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Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education
This collection of essays is edited by Sara Burke, a historian, and Patrick Milewski, a sociologist and former elementary school teacher, at Laurentian University. The title, Schooling in Transition, reflects the editors’ belief that public...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 165-67
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This Day in Vancouver
There are some stories about Vancouver that bear retelling. Take the tale of Theodore Ludgate, an American capitalist in the lumber trade who arrived in the city around 1899 with a lease for the...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09
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Put that Damned Old Mattock Away
In Put that Damned Old Mattock Away, long-time Gulf Island resident David Spalding draws on oral histories, a variety of archival documents, and his grandfather’s delightfully written and illustrated diary (1914-32) to explore life on...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 202-03
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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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Harold Mortimer-Lamb: The Art Lover
Harold Mortimer-Lamb lived an extraordinary life — all ninety-nine years of it. Born in England in 1872, he came to British Columbia at the age of seventeen, initially to work on Captain L.N. Agassiz’s Fraser...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 150-52
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Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals
Histories of Aboriginal health form a field that has captured significant public interest after Ian Mosby’s recent revelation of experiments performed on Aboriginal children in residential schools and hospitals. Laurie Meijer Drees gives an accessible...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 161-63
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Voyage Through the Past Century
First, a disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been related to Cyril Belshaw. This is pertinent because Cyril — a distinguished University of British Columbia academic whose international notoriety is, shall we...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 165-68
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Yorke Island and the Uncertain War: Defending Canada’s Western Coast during WWII
The Second World War is fading from living memory, and military veterans of that conflict are now rare. Their average age is 87. Given this situation, the author and Danny Brown, a Campbell River Museum...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 233-234
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Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry: A Home Child Experience
The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was located near Duncan, British Columbia. Between 1935 and 1950 it accommodated over three hundred underprivileged British children. Marjorie Arnison was one of them. She arrived at the...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 228-230
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Imperial Vancouver Island: Who was Who 1850-1950
The author of this work, Professor J.F. Bosher, was born in North Saanich near Sidney, British Columbia and raised in a cultured English family. Having retired from York University in Toronto, where he specialized in...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 128-30
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Fishing the River of Time
Here is an entertaining addition to the shelf of books about Vancouver Island. Depending upon the reader’s own experiences in life, and the breadth of his interests, he may be amused by Taylor’s rambling memories...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 230-231
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Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War
This book is part of the Canadian Government’s “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP), a five-year effort to revisit uncomfortable moments in its past. It re-examines the experiences of so-called Italian enemy aliens during the Second...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 234-235
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InJustice Served: The Story of British Columbia’s Italian Enemy Aliens During World War II
Historical redress is a touchy subject and should be handled with care. At root, it is a question about what to address. InJustice Served is funded by the vaguely termed “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP),...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 235-234
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Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
In the second chapter of her powerful book, Mona Oikawa indicts the critical reception of well-known Japanese-Canadian representations of Internment. Readings of Muriel Kitagawa’s This is My Own, for example, have tended to “exceptionalize” it...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 237-238
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Carrying on Irregardless: Humour In Contemporary Northwest Coast Art
An exhibition and catalogue devoted to humour in contemporary Northwest Coast art was long overdue. Martine Reid’s and Peter Morin’s Carrying on Irregardless: Humour In Contemporary Northwest Coast Art positions itself as the Northwest Coast...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 157-58
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More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...