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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...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 138-40
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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...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73
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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...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51
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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...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 180-82
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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...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 234-235
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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....
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 232-234
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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...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 195-96
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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...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 132-3
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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...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 145-147
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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...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 160
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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...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 144-5
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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...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11
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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...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 99-101
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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...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 120-2
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Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
For anyone familiar with environmental history, Stephen J. Pyne is as synonymous with the word “fire” as is Smokey the Bear. As a former firefighter in the Grand Canyon, a renowned historian at Arizona State...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 145-146
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974
A few exceptions aside, the remarkable escalation of books that have investigated British Columbia’s forests and forest economy in recent years have not paid much attention to labour. Yet labour’s role is vital to the evolution...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 155-7
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Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
Resilience. This is a word that, for me, conjures up a feeling of hard times met with bald-faced determination to get through whatever comes one’s way. Coasts under Stress brings this idea to life through...