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Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 159-160
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Stewards of the People’s Forests: A Short History of the British Columbia Forest Service
The forest industry was the most important economic activity in British Columbia during the twentieth century. Oddly, except for some consideration of its founding, there has not been a major examination of an institution at...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 126-27
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Landscape Architecture in Canada
Landscape Architecture in Canada is Ron Williams’ magnum opus, the likely capstone of a distinguished career as researcher, teacher, and practitioner. It is a fine scholarly effort, more than fifteen years in the making. Until...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 136-38
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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
Since the sixteenth century, intrepid French Canadians have traversed the North American landscape to the very edges of the continent, and established families and communities in virtually every region north of Mexico. Given this legacy...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 114-16
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Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Nancy Turner’s new work Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is undoubtedly her magnum opus. It is a thing of great scope, beauty, eloquence, and cohesion. Yet perhaps its greatest attribute, like all of Turner’s work, is...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 111-13
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Ladysmith: Our Community, Your Credit Union — A History
Patrick Dunae’s microhistory, Ladysmith: Our Community, Your Credit Union — A History, is attractive and approachable, and a success at what intends to be: a proudly colourful and informative history of the Ladysmith Credit Union....
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 135-36
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Vancouver Confidential
John Belshaw undertook the task of publishing a series of fifteen essays on Vancouver written by artists, journalists, and writers. There is no specific thesis in this collection, and no attempt to convey a specific...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 132-34
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The Afterthought: West Coast Rock Posters and Recollections
Jerry Kruz’s beautifully illustrated autobiographical work provides an intriguing first hand glimpse of Vancouver psychedelic music scene. The book revolves around Kruz’s years as a concert promoter from 1966 to 1969. Although it briefly describes...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 141-43
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Closing Time: Prohibition, Rum-Runners, and Border Wars
The prohibition era has attracted much interest for generations. The American story — undoubtedly because of the violence, criminal involvement, and Hollywood exposure — has always overshadowed the somewhat milder, more complicated, and less linear...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 130-31
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Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island
A friend said recently that he didn’t think much of the new generation of histories about British Columbia’s “back-to-the-landers” in the 1960s and seventies. Because if you weren’t there, then the stories just don’t mean...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 181-82
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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Okanagan Geology South: Geologic Highlights of the South Okanagan, British Columbia
Guidebooks present risks. Some authors inadvertently lead readers into the minutia that is their passion. Others find themselves indulging in editorial or polemic. Yet others lose their readers in what might be described as a...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 232-33
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Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia
Just about every kid who grew up in British Columbia in the 1980s had a friend (or a friend of a friend) whose parents were American immigrants. Their parents usually arrived in the province sometime...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 179-181
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Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
When the Vancouver convention centre was completed in 2009, a series of interpretive panels describing the history of British Columbia were placed along the waterfront promenade. Featured among these panels is the story of “BC’s...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 173-74
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Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada
Forests, long of economic and socio-cultural importance to both Aboriginal peoples and settlers in Canada, have also been sites of contention between these groups, reflected in blockades, court action, and state policies intended to address...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 184-85
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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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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...