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Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports: 1806-1821
This volume assembles the remaining records (with the exception of accounts) produced between 1806 and 1821 at Edmonton House, the Saskatchewan District headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company. This period starts with the 1806 Lewis...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 164-165
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A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist
On the surface, Alicia Priest’s memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist is a well-researched and well-written account of Gerald H. Priest’s attempt to steal silver ore...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 168-170
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Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History
When the Kicking Horse Trail opened in 1927, connecting Banff to Golden by route of Lake Louise, parks visitors were presented with a scenic highway system unsurpassed elsewhere in the nation. For a nation that...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 173-174
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Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
In this fascinating collection, seven Indigenous artists from across Canada illustrate how digital technologies and Indigenous ontologies combine to inform new media theory and practice. In different ways, the contributors demonstrate how digital technologies are...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 217-218
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Cleaner Greener Smarter: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
The World Health Organization released an update to the Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database on 12 May 2016, finding that more than 80 percent of people who live in major cities around the world...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 201-203
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Local Self-Government and the Right to the City
Warren Magnusson’s reputation is secure as one of Canada’s leading political theorists, and Local Self-Government and the Right to the City offers us what he says is “probably… [his] last book” (viii). As such, it...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 207-210
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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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Sonia: The Life of Bohemian, Rancher and Artist Sonia Cornwall, 1919-2006
Challenged to name women artists of British Columbia of the twentieth century, most people would stop at Emily Carr. While the list of both First Nations and settler women artists of British Columbia is impressively...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 213-214
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The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to Present
In the Power of Feasts, Hayden, an SFU archaeologist, provides a “theoretical synthesis” of the history of feasting, explains the theory of its influence on human societies over time, and argues that feasting contributed to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 136-137
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Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age of Travel
The Canadian Pacific Railway’s travel literature boasts marvellous scenery, adventure, and extravagance. “You shall see mighty rivers, vast forest, boundless plains, stupendous mountains and wonders innumerable, and you shall see in all in comfort, nay...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 139-140
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Maritime Command Pacific: The Royal Canadian Navy’s West Coast Fleet in the Early Cold War
This welcome new study concerns the operations of Canada’s west coast fleet in the two decades after the Second World War. Soon after 1945, defence policy came to be dominated by Canada’s contributions to NATO...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 150-151
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Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
The cover and larger format pages of this handsomely produced book are drear images of demolition in the older inner suburbs of Vancouver. An array are pictured on the back cover rather in the manner...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 157-160
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History 1940-1980
Historian Patrick Wolfe has foregrounded the contradictory condition of Indigenous labour within Euro-American settlement by arguing that mythic narratives of settler diligence coexisted with a heavy reliance on colonized Indigenous labour. As he observes in...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 162-164
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Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place and Identity in Indigenous Communities
In this innovative and important book, Gwilyn Eades, a geographer from Terrace, undertakes a kaleidoscopic investigation of the significance of maps, cartography, contemporary geo-coding technologies (GIS, GPS, and Google Earth), and questions of spatial cognition...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 164-165
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One: Summary “Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future.”
The work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) between 2009 and 2015 is especially relevant to British Columbia. Residential schools and their impact are interwoven with the history, contemporary situation, and future development of...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 167-169
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volumes 1-6
A portion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) mandate laid out in Schedule N to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement [IRSSA] of 2006 said that the Commission was to “Produce and submit to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 169-175
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From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
Gerhard Ens and Joe Sawchuck’s co-written volume From New Peoples to New Nations approaches historical and contemporary Métis identity from a perspective that is uncommon and even contested among Indigenous histories. From a social constructionist...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 152-153
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Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Past
A student in search of a thesis topic or a scholar seeking to understand the shape of historical writing in New Zealand over the past fifty years need go no further. In this collection of...