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He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award
Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22
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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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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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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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The Ones Who Have to Pay: The Soldiers-Poets of Victoria BC in the Great War 1914-1918
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s study of the soldier-poets of the First World War is useful for scholarship and is approachable by a casual reader. Although the tone of this review must be critical, the utility and...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 208-209
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Creating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
There is no such thing as Indigenous education. There is only cross-cultural education containing negotiations between both Indigenous people and the settler societies that colonized them. Understanding the past is essential, but even if we...
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John Clarke: Explorer of the Coast Mountains
For over a century, the Coast Mountains have drawn British Columbians, through both gaze and gait, to embrace the rugged peaks for which they are known. And, from the exploratory expeditions of the Mundays in...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 240-241
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The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar’s groundbreaking work, The Punjabis in British Columbia, represents a significant addition to a number of fields. At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 240-242
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Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia
Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia depicts stories of Canadians who went to Japan, or whose lives, dreams, achievements, and failures were intimately connected to Japan. In contrast to the far more familiar experiences...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 238-240
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Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247
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Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties
Generation has dominated sixties scholarship since the baby-boomers came of age in the 1960s. Early historical scholarship, often written by those who participated in the events, emphasized a rupture with the past. These writers focused...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 146-47
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Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community
The authors, Ann-Lee Switzer and Gordon Switzer are both historians and writers with an interest in the Japanese Canadian experience. Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community is a rich history of the Japanese...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 180-182
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The British Columbia Court of Appeal: The First Hundred Years, 1910-2010
A law court has an inner life, beyond the many outside lives that it can rescue, ruin, remedy and reward. When it is an appellate court, the urge to converge as group judgment replaces the...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 136-38
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Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St. Ann in Health Care in British Columbia
Today, Mount St. Mary Hospital, an extended care facility in Victoria, is one of the last visible legacies of the Sisters of St. Ann’s contributions to health care in British Columbia. But for more than...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 163
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The Principal’s Office – And Beyond, Volumes 1 (1849-1960) and Volume 2 (1961-2005)
This study considers the development of public education in British Columbia mainly from the perspective of school principals. The author is a prominent scholar in the field of education history and a provocative critic of...