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By Law or In Justice
The foundation of Professor Jane Dickson’s book, By Law Or in Justice, is her work as a Commissioner for the Indian Specific Claims Commission, from 2002 to 2009. The Commission itself endured from 1991 to...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 218-219
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Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
Tamara Starblanket is a Nehiyaw (Cree) legal scholar from Ahthakakoop First Nation and is currently the Dean of Academics at the Native Education College in Vancouver, which is located on the traditional territories of the...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 214-216
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On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 205-206
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Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence
In his famous study Of Wolves and Men (1978), Barry Lopez pertinently noted that ‘the wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you.’ Paula...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 209-210
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A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
If this is a queer love story between Jane Rule, the legendary lesbian novelist of Galiano Island, and Rick Bébout, a long-time collective member of The Body Politic in Toronto, it should really be considered a...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 162-163
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Building a Collaborative Advantage: Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
With 235,000 people experiencing homelessness each year in Canada, the nature and quality of the state response are crucial to preventing and ultimately ending homelessness. Doberstein’s analysis of the role governance networks –groups of community...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
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Reconsidering Confederation: Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999
A dynamic collection of essays, Reconsidering Confederationsets out to “provide a primer for Canadians who want to better understand similarities and differences between provinces, regions, and peoples” (13). Much more than a basic outline of...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 160-161
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Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
Today we live in a consumer-oriented culture in which material items help to define who we are, or, who we want to be. To meet our material needs, stores are now open seven days a...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 192-193
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Trail North: The Okanagan Trail of 1858-68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington
In Trail North, Ken Mather directs our attention to a relatively forgotten part of British Columbian history: the trails linking the interior of British Columbia to the Columbia Plateau of Washington and their contribution to...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 188-189
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The North-West Mounted Police, 1873-1885
In a wonderfully detailed and researched volume, Jack F. Dunn has created a study that is a worthy addition to Brendan and Horall’s Red Coats on the Prairiesand R.C. Macleod’s NWMP and Law Enforcement. Focusing...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 189-190
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Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought them in 1970s Vancouver
Liminal spaces make places. This is the central theme of Jean Walton’s book, Mudflat Dreaming, an unconventional work of literary nonfiction that weaves together memoir, film studies, and Vancouver history in the 1970s, a pivotal...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 190-192
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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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Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada
Over the past two decades, community forestry has been adopted with growing frequency across Canada. Localities have sought to balance multiple values – economic, social, environmental – within systems of decentralized forest management. Contributors to Growing...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 164-165
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Witness to Loss
Witness to Loss is a multi-authored study of wartime Japanese Canadian confinement that draws from the memoirs of Kishizo Kimura, a Japanese-born man who immigrated to Canada in 1911. Kimura had an important impact on the...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 163-164
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Raven Walks Around the World
In Raven Walks Around the World, Henley shares parts of his personal journey of activism, travel, and life long work with Indigenous peoples around the world. Through his stories, Henley illuminates the determination of all...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 180-181
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Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism
Shirley McDonald and Bob Barnetson’s edited volume Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activismprovides a unique and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the role farm workers occupy in the complex industrial agriculture system. McDonald and Barnetson...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 187-188
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Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick
The recent passing of Beau Dick makes this documentary film both a testament and an affirmation of an extraordinary life. More than a recitation of the chronology of his life, the filmmakers have created a...