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The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in BC
This is one of those rare collections that focusses on a recent significant political transition. In doing so Jason Lacharite and Tracy Summerville have produced a needed and worthwhile book. For those not cognizant of recent...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 193-194
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The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake
In recent years, the historiography of British Columbia has burgeoned. Much of this rich and growing scholarship focuses on the province as a whole, or on its urban centres. We still have much to learn...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 156-157
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At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast
Caroline Fox presents in the guise of an account of her experiences as a field biologist a wonderful memoir of coastal British Columbia. Onboard the sailboat Achiever, her job was to survey birds from Vancouver Island to...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 149-105
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Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion
In the spring of 2018, hundreds of people gathered between city hall and the public library in downtown Bellingham, Washington, to witness the dedication of a 10-ton granite “Arch of Reconciliation,” a monument to and...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 152-153
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Kwädąy Dän Ts’inchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found
Sometime between 1720 and 1850, late in summer, an eighteen-year-old man was traveling in an icefield in the present-day territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. Well...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 171-2
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Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes is a humanistic look at the survivors from one of our nation’s most shameful institutions alongside residential schools: segregated healthcare facilities and the treatment of Indigenous peoples within these spaces....
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 178-9
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The Queen of the North Disaster, The Captain’s Story
As one might expect from a competent and conscientious career mariner, Colin Henthorne’s account of the sinking of the Queen of the North on March 22, 2006, a little south of Prince Rupert on British...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 182-4
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In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice
This edited volume of modern BC birthing stories will be a compelling read for anyone with a personal or professional interest in the rich drama of childbirth. Not intended as a scholarly text, the sixty...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 187-88
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Building the Power: The Labourers’ Union in British Columbia
This book tells the story of the Labourers’ International Union of North America in British Columbia since 1937 and is intended primarily for workers and retirees associated with the union. It is an insider’s perspective:...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 189-90
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Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
Anyone with even the most superficial knowledge of eugenics, racism, the ‘domestication’ of women, and the history of the 20th century will know why pronatalism might ring the wrong bells. And this is setting aside...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 194-6
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Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage
James Cook was the greatest navigator of his, and perhaps any, age. He did more than any other individual to make the Pacific, which covers one third of the earth’s surface, known to Europe. Through...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 201-202
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Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation
Rarely does a book cover depict a Canadian athlete with claims to a major role in academic life and advocacy politics, but this is no ordinary cover. The front of Playing for Change depicts young Bruce Kidd,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 238-239
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War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes
For four turbulent years (June 1915 to May 1919) Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes served together in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, taking on new administrative and bedside nursing roles in joint postings...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 145-146
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Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University
This fine piece of work provides new insights into the way the nature and culture of life in Canadian universities changed during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Based on a careful review...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 149-150
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The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller
I was a third-year undergraduate at UBC in 1990 when Bruce Miller joined the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, launching his second career after having taught high school. Between 1991 and 1994 I took several...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 158-159
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Bringing Water to Victoria: An Illustrated History, 1843-1915
Little is as intimate and political as the water that flows from city taps. We fill our bodies with it, we wash our babies in it. Many of us depend on the state to provide...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 160-161
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Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
In this fascinating collection, seven Indigenous artists from across Canada illustrate how digital technologies and Indigenous ontologies combine to inform new media theory and practice. In different ways, the contributors demonstrate how digital technologies are...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 217-218
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Cleaner Greener Smarter: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
The World Health Organization released an update to the Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database on 12 May 2016, finding that more than 80 percent of people who live in major cities around the world...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 201-203
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A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
There is an alternative out there to the globalized world of agribusiness, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and processed packaged food, one based on harvesting and using local, especially wild, foods and re-weaving them into our...