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Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World: Canadian Experiences
The title suggests a broad discussion of sustainability, with Canadian examples. The core of this book, however, is about “Canadian experiences” with Man and Biosphere Reserves (sic) or MAB, and Model Forests. Francis was an...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of the Gitlax m’oon.
“Gitlax m’oon, people of the saltwater” are more commonly known as the Gitxaala; their principal village, Lach Klan is located on what is now called Dolphin Island, a little to the south of Prince Rupert....
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 163-4
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Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community
The Alaska Highway runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska. Built by the American military for defense purposes during the Second World War, it was opened to the public in 1948 and...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 181-2
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The Regulation of Peace River: A Case Study for River Management
The Peace River is an impressive natural system, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of northeastern British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean, and it has been historically (and prehistorically) a vital part of the region. From...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 185-7
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Everything Shuswap
In 1969, Jim Cooperman arrived in British Columbia from the United States, one of many Vietnam ‘war resisters’ who remade our province in ways that few people yet fully appreciate. One was in building a...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 184-5
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Summer of the Horse
Donna Kane’s Summer of the Horse elates and lures readers towards reenchantment, or what deep ecologist Thomas Berry calls “a reverence for the mystery and magic of the earth and the larger universe.” Kane calls...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 187-8
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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna represents a collective effort to create a historiography of nonhuman animals and human subjects in Canada since...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 188-9
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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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The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
Anything written about the Site C dam in the past year or two was bound to become dated rapidly, given the pace of events, the uncertainty around the future of the project after the 2017...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 191-2
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The Language of Family: Stories of Bonds and Belonging
“What does a book about family look like when everyone’s idea of family is different?” So opens Michelle van der Merwe’s thoughtfully edited volume The Language of Family: Stories of Bond and Belongings. This anthology...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 197-8
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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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Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Let us get the quibbling out of the way first, lest it leave a bad taste in our mouths at the end. Cambridge University Press appears to have put little effort into indexing this volume,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 202-204
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Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966
David Chuenyan Lai and Ding Guo’s Great Fortune Dream is a comprehensive history of the Chinese in Canada, from early settlement to the 1960s. While much has been written on the subject, there have been...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 207-208
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Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities
The essays in Solitudes of the Workplace examine the university as a workplace. The authors use the concept of solitude to examine women’s various experiences as workers in universities. A key premise of the book...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 218-219
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Human Rights in Canada: A History
Human Rights in Canada: A History is a comprehensive survey of the checkered human rights pattern in this country. Dominique Clément writes of a country that in its infancy and youth had a minimal respect...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 224-225
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The Slow Farm
A memoir, The Slow Farm, focuses largely on the brief period during which Tarn Wilson lived on Texada Island with her American parents and younger sister Rima. Arriving in 1973, the then four-year-old and her...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 195-196
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The Slocan History Series
Edited by Cole Harris, the Slocan History Series began with four booklets that focus primarily on the mining “boom days” of the 1890s and their long-term effects on the region....
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 141-144
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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 Secular Northwest: Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar Life
Scholarly endeavours, at their best, are richly textured conversations with a wide range of considered opinion and new sources that reveal dimensions of a subject previously hidden. Tina Block conducts such an endeavor focusing on...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 150-152
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Community Forestry in Canada: Lessons from Policy and Practice
In Community Forestry in Canada, Sara Teitelbaum brings together a rich array of case studies –including four cases focused on British Columbia – that depict the remarkable variation in regional dynamics within community forestry politics...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 158-159
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Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Canada has a long history of reliance on the labour of both permanent immigrants and migrant workers. In recent decades, the number of migrant workers entering Canada has increased significantly relative to permanent immigrants. A...