Index

Memories of Jack Pickup: Flying Doctor of British Columbia

       Transportation and communication technologies have played an integral role in modernizing British Columbia by reconfiguring possibilities of movement and exchange. As Cole Harris has pointed out in The Resettlement of British Columbia (1997), the...

Review by Bret Edwards

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 138-40

“‘Nonsensical and a Contradiction in Terms’: Multiple Use Forestry, Clearcutting, and the Politics of Salmon Habitat in British Columbia, 1945-1970”

By Richard Allan Rajala

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 89-127

forestry rivers salmon government conservation fishing industry

Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History

Vancouver’s famous park has received a lot of attention, including from notable historians like Jean Barman and Robert A. J. McDonald, prominent artists like Emily Carr, and a continuous collection of journalists and tourism writers...

Review by Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73

British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas

  In British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas, Derek Hayes uses over 900 contemporary maps to illustrate the history of British Columbia. The maps are beautifully reproduced, carefully analyzed in captions, often supported by useful...

Review by Duff Sutherland

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51

Corporate Social Responsibility and the State: International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation

Forest certification has provided fertile ground for social science research and scholarship since the early 1990s. Much of this work has focused on explaining the improbable rise and continuing global significance of the Forest Stewardship...

Review by Chris Tollefson

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 180-82

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

  Charlotte Gill, as many have already observed, has written an extraordinary book that will likely be the definitive tome about tree planting for some time to come. She has a gift for making the...

Review by Howard Stewart

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 234-235

Social Transformation in Rural Canada Community, Cultures, and Collective Action

Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History

Review by Chris Herbert

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Pages 140-143

The Grizzly Manifesto: In Defence of the Great Bear

The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek

The Bear's Embrace: A True Story of a Grizzly Bear Attack

Review by Jonathan Luedee

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Pages 177-79

The Inverted Pyramid

In 2011, the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia celebrated Vancouver’s 125th anniversary with the Vancouver Legacy Book Collection, reissuing ten books that it deemed best representative of British Columbia’s social and literary history....

Review by Sinead Earley

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 232-234

The Pearse Commission and the Industrial Organization of the British Columbia Forest Industry

By Richard Schwindt

BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | Page(s) 3-35

forestry labour force Pearse Commission government control legislation

Developing Sustainability: A Native/Environmentalist Prescription for Third-level Government

By Michael M'Gonigle

BC Studies no. 84 Winter 1989-1990 | Page(s) 65-99

forestry land claims environment sustainability government control Stein Valley

Remaking Space in North-Central British Columbia: The Establishment of the John Prince Research Forest

By Gail Fondahl, Donna Atkinson

BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 67-95

education forestry Tl'azt'en

“This Wasteful Use of a River”: Log Driving, Conservation, and British Columbia’s Stellako River Controversy, 1965-72

By Richard A. Rajala

BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 31-74

forestry logging rivers federal-provincial relations conservation Stellako River

All Roads Lead to Wells: Stories of the Hippie Days

The growing literature about hippies demonstrates that the phenomenon was anything but uniform. Joy Inglis, in a privately printed book, describes one manifestation: a commune on Quadra Island that was established in 1968 by Antioch...

Review by David Stouck

BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 195-96

Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition 3rd Edition

I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...

Review by Daniel Clayton

BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 132-3

Forestry and Biodiversity: Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests

 “No more clear-cuts!” So announced MacMillan Bloedel CEO Tom Stephens in a dramatic 1998 policy shift. The gap between global social expectations and the firm’s perceived destructive logging practices, primarily the accusation that it over-harvested pristine...

Review by David Brownstein

BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 145-147

Whitewater Devils: Adventure on Wild Waters

  With Whitewater Devils, retired forestry worker Jack Boudreau has written his eighth book of adventurous tales. Set mostly in British Columbia, Whitewater Devils – while not his best work – is an interesting complement...

Review by Anthony Dalton

BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 160

Looking to Oregon: Comparative Challenges to Forest Policy Reform and Sustainability in British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest

By W. Scott Prudham, Maureen G. Reed

BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 5-40

forestry environment Pacific Northwest

The Government Timber Business: Forest Policy and Administration in British Columbia, 1912-1928

By Stephen Gray

BC Studies no. 81 Spring 1989 | Page(s) 24-49

forestry government control Pattullo Thomas Dufferin

Practical Dreamers: Communitarianism and Co-operatives on Malcolm Island

The Finnish socialist utopian community on Malcolm Island has fared better than most smaller BC com munities in the number of books, articles, theses, and films devoted to the telling of its history. Still, the...

Review by David Breen

BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 144-5

UBC: The First 100 Years

With its heavy glossy paper, large format, and copious illustrations, this looks like a celebratory coffee table book. To classify it as such would be wrong. Drawing on previous histories of the University of British...

Review by Patricia Roy

BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11

“I Don’t Really Like the Mill; In Fact, I Hate the Mill”: Changing Youth Vocationalism Under Fordism and Post-Fordism in Powell River, British Columbia

By Tanya Behrisch, Roger Hayter

BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 73-101

forestry labour force Powell River

Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians: West Coast Legends and Stories, Part 11 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts

What do the stories of lineage significance say about the people who tell them? What is culturally salient to the tellers of the stories? What is culturally salient to the hearers of the stories, be...

Review by Marlene Atleo

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 99-101

The Weather of the Pacific Northwest

Weather is a favourite topic of conversation in most places but perhaps nowhere more so than along the northwest coast of North America, a region that prides itself on a rich “outdoors” recreational culture and...

Review by Ian McKendry

BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 120-2