Index

The history of colonial British Columbia is, in many respects, well-trodden ground. Over the past few decades, scholars like Jean Barman, Cole Harris, and Adele Perry have made multiple transformative contributions to our understanding of...

Review by Kristine Alexander

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 122-124

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Re-living the present: Title, treaties, and the trickster in British Columbia

By John Borrows

BC Studies no. 120 Winter 1998 | Page(s) 99-108

aboriginal self government land claims treaties

Book Review

The Co-op Revolution: Vancouver’s Search for Food

When growers, producers and practitioners self-organize around shared interests in the local foods economy, their social and economic actions—whether through a farmer’s market, buying co-op or the production of local food—can feel tenuous on the...

Review by Diandra Oliver

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 129-130

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Aboriginal self-government and the foundations of Canadian nationhood

By Samuel V. Laselva

BC Studies no. 120 Winter 1998 | Page(s) 41-54

aboriginal self government land claims treaties confederation United States

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Immigration and the Changing Social Geography of Greater Vancouver

By Daniel Hiebert

BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Page(s) 35-82

immigration demography geography Vancouver

Book Review

Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded our Schools

Corporate involvement in Canadian schools is an emotional topic. There are alarmists, like some of the teachers’ federations. They long for public education’s halcyon days and warn vaguely of nefarious “neoliberals” set to “privatize.” There...

Review by Jason Ellis

BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 113-114

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Red Salmon and Red Cedar Bark: Another Look at the Nineteenth-Century Kwakwaka’wakw Winter Ceremonial

By Judith Berman

BC Studies no. 125-126 Spring-Summer 2000 | Page(s) 53-98

aboriginal people aboriginal culture Boas Franz

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Treaty Eight and Expert Witnesses: A Reply to Dr. Robert Irwin

By Arthur J. Ray

BC Studies no. 127 Autumn 2000 | Page(s) 102-107

treaties aboriginal people

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“A Baby Show Means Work in the Hardest Sense”: The Better Baby Contests of the Vancouver and New Westminster Local Councils of Women, 1913-1929

By Gerald E. Thomson

BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 5-36

health women

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Tainted Space: Representations of Injection Drug-Users and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

By Andrew Woolford

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 27-50

newspapers epidemics health Vancouver

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Saying No: BC Voters and the Canadian Alliance in the 2000 Federal Election

By David Laycock

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 15-20

Canadian Alliance Party elections political parties

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The Colonies and Cultures of Canada: Old Versus New

By Boris DeWiel

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 9-14

Canadian Alliance Party elections political parties

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“The Names Spread in All Directions”: Hereditary Titles in Tsimshian Social and Political Life

By Christopher Roth

BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 69-92

aboriginal people aboriginal culture

Book Review

Breaching the Peace: the Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro

Damming the Peace: The Hidden Costs of the Site C Dam

Review by Zander Albertson

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Pages 220-221

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Jean and Al’s Sense of Place and History

By Jean Wilson

BC Studies no. 131 Autumn 2001 | Page(s) 59-62

literature

Book Review

Children of the Kootenays: Memories of Mining Towns

Shirley D. Stainton’s Children of the Kootenays: Memories of Mining Towns describes her own and her brother Ray’s childhoods in West Kootenay mining communities during the 1930s and 1940s. Stainton’s father, Lee Hall, was a cook...

Review by Duff Sutherland