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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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Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism
Shirley McDonald and Bob Barnetson’s edited volume Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activismprovides a unique and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the role farm workers occupy in the complex industrial agriculture system. McDonald and Barnetson...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 187-188
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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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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...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 175-6
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The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties
In the 1764 Treaty of Niagara, representatives of the British Crown met with a gathering of more than two thousand Indigenous leaders and committed that North American settlement would only proceed with Indigenous consent. At...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 180-2
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Surveying the Great Divide: The Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917
Released in 2017 to coincide with national ‘Canada 150’ celebrations, Jay Sherwood’s Surveying the Great Divide also affords an opportunity to reflect on a period of productive inter-provincial cooperation a century ago, at a moment...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 183-4
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Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017
Cole Harris’s Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896 – 2017 is delightful summer reading. It is, primarily, a history of the Harris family’s Bosun Ranch and a record of the lives of...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 185-6
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Not My Fate: The Story of a Nisga’a Survivor
Not My Fate: The Story of a Nisga’a Survivor is Janet Romain’s account of the life of her friend and fellow northerner, Josephine Caplin.[1] Jo was born in Smithers to a Nisga’a mother and non-Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 187-8
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The Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in British Columbia
My childhood vacations did not involve the sophisticated technology that keeps my children (relatively) quiet in the backseat today. Apart from what I recall to be my endless patience on those long and winding drives...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 188-9
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Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World: Canadian Experiences
The title suggests a broad discussion of sustainability, with Canadian examples. The core of this book, however, is about “Canadian experiences” with Man and Biosphere Reserves (sic) or MAB, and Model Forests. Francis was an...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
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Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses and the Imperial Press
In May 1861, the British Colonist, a local newspaper in Victoria, Vancouver Island, reported on a “Horrid Massacre in New Zealand.” According to the Colonist, Maori warriors had launched a surprise attack on a small...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 172-4
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Imagining Uplands: John Olmsted’s Masterpiece of Residential Design
This is a most handsome book, and a most intelligent analysis of the dense process of realizing a design concept. Larry McCann has allowed his telling of the Uplands history to be imaginative, if not...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 175-77
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Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917.
E.A Heaman has produced a decided masterpiece on a topic too often thought to be dry as a bone. Taxation, with its underlying legitimacy of consent, is the lifeblood of the state, supplying it with...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 177-8
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The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
The past decade has witnessed a surge in Vancouver criminal and nocturnal history, from Daniel Francis’s Red Light Neon (2006) to Diane Purvey and John Belshaw’s Vancouver Noir (2011) and Belshaw’s edited collection Vancouver Confidential...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 179-181
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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 Regulation of Peace River: A Case Study for River Management
The Peace River is an impressive natural system, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of northeastern British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean, and it has been historically (and prehistorically) a vital part of the region. From...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 185-7
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Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia
David Pitt-Brooke is an advocate for the protection and preservation one of British Columbia’s underappreciated landscapes. Rather than looking towards the more iconic mountain peaks and old-growth forests of British Columbia in his search for...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 185-7
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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 Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
Anything written about the Site C dam in the past year or two was bound to become dated rapidly, given the pace of events, the uncertainty around the future of the project after the 2017...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 191-2
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Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
In 1921 the Prince George Citizen reminded its readership that “central B.C. is not a new country” (Prince George Citizen 1921). Defining “central B.C.” as those parts of the province situated between the 52nd and...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border
Bradley Miller, an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia, has produced an unprecedented look at the patchwork development of the law as it pertains to the Canada-U.S. border over the course...