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Nechako Country: In the Footsteps of Bert Irvine
This personal history is written in concise and readable prose. It is an account of the life of Bert Irvine, an oil worker, soldier, carpenter, trapper, and wilderness guide who chose to live close to nature....
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 145-6
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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
POET, WRITER, storyteller, spokesperson, performer, actress, performance artist. Pauline Johnson is certainly the most public and popular writer that nineteenth-century Canada produced, and perhaps even the most public Canadian writer of the last century. Such...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 115-8
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At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
Spanish activity along the Pacific Northwest Coast from 1774 to 1793 has attracted a moderate amount of scholarly attention, including monographs by Warren Cook, Donald Cutter, and John Kendrick, as well as the publication, often...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 148-9
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The British Columbia Atlas of Wellness
Maps and atlases have acquired a mystique in the lore of public health since the publication of Dr. John Snow’s famous cholera map of London in the mid-nineteenth century. Somewhere along the way, a notion...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 160-2
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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...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 164-6
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Salmon Farming: The Whole Story
Salmon Farming : The Whole Story is not the “whole story,” but it is certainly the standard story that fish farmers like to tell of an industry maligned by “constant high-profile public opposition” (18). Peter...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 155-7
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Community, Environment and Health: Geographic Perspectives
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 101, Spring 1994
BC Studies no. 101 Spring 1994 | Page(s) 126-8
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A Persistent Spirit: Towards Understanding Aboriginal Health in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998
BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 78-80
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In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
As the trial of the serial killer ac cused of murdering women from the Downtown Eastside continues, the Woodward’s building on Hastings Street is turned into luxury condominiums, and the 2010 Olympics draw closer, the...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 101-2
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Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia
Megan Davies’s carefully worked study on residential care for the aged in British Columbia does in deed take us into the “house of old.” And it is a sad journey, made more resonant to many...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 87-9
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Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions
Coming to Shore promises to make a significant contribution to the anthropological study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the North Pacific Coast of North America. Comprising papers from the Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference,...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 115-8
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Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals
In Healing in the Wilderness Bob Burrows recounts the origins and evolution of the medical missions established and maintained by the United Church and its antecedents in isolated communities across Canada. An ordained United Church...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
In Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse) Julie Rak refers to Doukhobors as “bad subjects,” drawing on a concept formulated by Louis Althusser to describe a people who “resist the institutions, laws, and beliefs that would make...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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Harbour City: Nanaimo in Transition, 1920-1967
Nanaimo is a perplexing place for a historian. The city’s elected officials and first Nations leaders often disregard and frequently disdain historical structures. Recently, two buildings that had been listed on the city’s heritage register...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 193-5
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Too Small to See, Too Big to Ignore: Child Health and Well-being
AS THE MOST RECENT Statistics Canada reports tell us, poverty continues to stalk British Columbia’s youngest citizens. Their distress, with outcomes measured pitilessly in shortfalls in nutrition, education, and health, is directly associated with the...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 190-2
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Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
THE POPULARITY OF WILDLIFE, as idea and as icon, is near universal, but the presence ofwildlife in our yards, homes, and neighbourhoods provokes reactions as diverse as the species that we encounter and the places...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 317-8
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Plants of Haida Gwaii
FOR THOSE SCHOLARS conducting research within First Nations communities at this postcolonial moment in academic history, old rules do not apply. One must navigate a rearranged landscape made up of new challenges and opportunities. First...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 299-301
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A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
This collection explores many of the controversial issues surrounding fish farming practices in British Columbia. In five separate essays, the authors illustrate the importance of the precautionary principle in experimenting with new chemicals and processes...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 121-3
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Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu
As the title suggests, Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady is an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic as it swept through Vancouver and ran into preparations made for it by the city’s first full-time...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 129-31
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The British Columbia Atlas of Child Development
It is not surprising that many ad vocates of social justice for marginalized children and their families in British Columbia, Canada, and beyond eventually suffer professional and personal “burn-out.” Work in this vein has been...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 118-21
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Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective
This is a book that I will use in two of my university courses: one on Canadian political economy and the other on labour policy. It is well researched, deals with issues that have immediate...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 119-21
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The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast
As a study of missionary imperialism, Mary-Ellen Kelm’s edition of the letters Margaret Butcher wrote from Kitamaat between 1916 and 1919 makes an important contribution to historical conversations about the Haisla, missionaries, and residential schools...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 152-4
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash is an accessible, succinct narrative of George Vancouver’s life, focusing on the voyage he led into the Pacific in the late 18th century. Bown’s stated goal is to give Vancouver...