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Spying on Canadians: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War
Spying on Canadians opens with the goal of adding “to the political demands for a new commitment for a transparency in national security appropriate to our purportedly democratic society.” (9) It is a principled point. Describing...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 155-157
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Asian Canadian Studies Reader
This collection of essays is an integral part of American-modelled activism to establish a collective scholarly field for Asian Canadians beyond national boundaries. Such trials, as the editors argue, have already been initiated, for example,...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
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Fernie at War 1914-1919
Wayne Norton provides a fascinating story of a British Columbia resource town navigating its way through the tribulations of the Great War. In so doing, he adds to the small but growing body of works that...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 161-162
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The Miracle Mile: Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
The Miracle Mile written by Jason Beck, the curator at the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, is a masterfully constructed narrative of the first truly international event in British Columbia sport history. The 1954...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 154-155
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From Left to Right: Maternalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada
In popular imagining, as World War II ended Canadian women were ushered back into their domestic, homemaking lives and their political voices were silenced until second-wave feminism emerged in the sixties. In the book, From Left...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 157-158
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Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada’s Great War Memorial Statuary
In the two decades following the Great War, Canadian sculptors, architects and stonemasons produced over four thousand war monuments in the form of plaques, shafts, crosses, obelisks, stelae and figurative sculptures. Some were paid for...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 146-148
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Climber’s Paradise: Making Canada’s Mountain Parks, 1906-1974
Two powerful and iconic institutions can be found at the centre of most histories of tourism and recreation in the mountains of western Canada: the Canadian Pacific Railway and the agency known today as Parks...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 166-168
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Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada
This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76
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Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44
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Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut
Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut is the collaborative effort of a prize-winning photographer (Nancy Bleck), a writer (Katherine Dodds), and a Squamish Nation chief (Bill Williams). The 175-page coffee-table book documents the story of how a...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 155-56
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Rural Women’s Health
This volume is a rare and important collection of groundbreaking work on a topic too often ignored in Canadian academia. I was delighted when I was asked to review this collection, simply to ensure that...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 229-231
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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Self-conscious litanies of intellectual genealogy are common in volumes such as this. Although Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall have their own courses to chart, they are quick to acknowledge their debt to Jennifer...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 140-41
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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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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, by Anne Hyde is the second of six volumes scheduled to appear in the “History of the American West” series intended to reflect...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 226-227
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InJustice Served: The Story of British Columbia’s Italian Enemy Aliens During World War II
Historical redress is a touchy subject and should be handled with care. At root, it is a question about what to address. InJustice Served is funded by the vaguely termed “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP),...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 235-234
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Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
Epidemics call out the ambulance-chaser in all of us, and for health historians, there is none more attention-grabbing than the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, mistakenly dubbed the “Spanish Flu,” the only infectious disease to stop the...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 183-184
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Yip Sang and the First Chinese Canadians
Francis Hern’s Yip Sang and the First Chinese Canadians is the biography of a prominent merchant in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The story begins with Yip Sang’s arrival in...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 189-90
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Whoever Gives us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
More than twenty years ago, Gabriele Scardellato lamented the dearth of attention to Italian Canadians living “beyond the frozen wastes” (Scardellato 1989). There have been modest advances since that time, including Patricia K. Wood’s Nationalism...