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The Practical Application of Economic Incentives to the Control of Pollution: The Case of British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 36, Winter 1977
BC Studies no. 36 Winter 1977-1978 | Page(s) 53-6
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Victoria: Physical Environment and Development
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 35, Autumn 1977
BC Studies no. 35 Autumn 1977 | Page(s) 73-5
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The Politics of Canadian- Japanese Economic Relations 1952-1983
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 66, Summer 1985
BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 69-70
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British Columbia: Patterns in Economic, Political and Cultural Development
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 63, Autumn 1984
BC Studies no. 63 Autumn 1984 | Page(s) 83-5
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Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island
Huy tseep q’u, ah siem In a period marred by unemployment and economic hardships, Beryl Mildred Cryer, a Chemainus housewife, mother, and part-time journalist, set out to introduce the world to the oral traditions of...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 133-4
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Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
This is an interesting and provocative book that will motivate readers to rethink the role of the state in directing and managing a multicultural society. Exalted Subjects is divided into a number of sections labelled...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 135-137
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Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront 1919-1939
In Citizen Docker Andrew Parnaby explores industrial relations on the Vancouver waterfront during the interwar years. The analysis is linked to a broader consideration of the transition to the welfare state and the new industrial...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 139-141
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No Laughing Matter: Adventure, Activism and Politics
For some readers, Margaret Mitchell’s title will bring to mind a turning point in Canadian feminists’ struggle for women’s equality: an outrageous uproar of male shouting and laughing when Mitchell, MP for Vancouver East, told...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 143-144
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Restraining the Economy: Social Credit Economic Policies for B.C. in the Eighties
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 78, Summer 1998
BC Studies no. 78 Summer 1988 | Page(s) 91-5
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Seeing the Ocean Through the Trees: A Conservation-Based Development Strategy for Clayoquot Sound
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 118, Summer 1998
BC Studies no. 118 Summer 1998 | Page(s) 126-30
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The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man’s Game
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 88, Winter 1990/91
BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 100-3
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The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada 1896-1914
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 85, Spring 1990
BC Studies no. 85 Spring 1990 | Page(s) 69-71
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Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
THE TASK APPEARS straightforward – in this case, to read W.H. New’s monumental Encyclopedia ofLiterature in Canada for information on BC writing. There is, usefully, an entry on British Columbia (unsigned, meaning “written by New”):...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 108-12
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Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
IN SEPTEMBER 1996 Don “Lelooska” Smith, a highly regarded Northwest Coast artist, was laid to rest near his home in Ariel, Washington. The present volume is the result of a collaboration between Lelooska and historian...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 121-3
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914
David Leonard’s latest work on the Peace River country of northern British Columbia and Alberta is distinguished from its predecessors by an emphasis on the region’s agricultural history. Drawn in part from documents profiling who...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 111-2
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Negotiating Buck Naked: Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution
No one knows better than Gregory Cran the sometimes baffling intricacies of the relationship among the various groups of Doukhobors and between them and the mainstream community in British Columbia. Between 1979 and 1987, he...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 121-3
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Finding Ft. George
One challenge of writing a poetry collection that centres around rural life is that the poet is automatically engaged with debates between centre and periphery, between the urban and the rural, and, in the case...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 145-7
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Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection
In October 1863, the Reverend Robert J. Dundas of Scotland travelled up the coast from Victoria to Old Metlakatla, near Prince Rupert. There, he acquired seventy-seven “ceremonial objects” from the Anglican evangelical lay minister William...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 150-2
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In Search of Canadian Political Culture
In Search of Canadian Political Culture positions itself at the centre of debates over the nature of political culture in Canada, taking on disputes within what Alan Cairns would call the “sociological school” (behavioural versus...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 152-5
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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...