Index
Results (274)
Book Review
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
In 1999 a small group of Salt Spring Island activists decided to mark the coming millennium by inventorying and mapping the unique resources of their island home. Inspired by bioregional writing and mapping projects in...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 94-6
Book Review
Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia
Andrew Woolford’s Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia marks an important shift in the historiography of indigenous- settler relations in Canada. Focusing on the first ten years of the BC treaty process...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 89-91
Book Review
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
Book Review
Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia
Recently the CBC program Ideas aired “Canadian Clearances,” a documentary about the impacts of globalization in rural Canada.1 What has come to epitomize the political activism of rural and remote communities is the depth of...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 118-20
Book Review
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
Book Review
British Columbia: Land of Promises
This delightful book is Volume 5 of Oxford University Press’s six-volume Illustrated History of Canada. As the authors note in the introduction, the series is “uniquely Canadian” because the volumes are not shaped by chronology...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 111-3
Book Review
Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University
When Simon Fraser University (SFU) opened in the fall of 1965, the registrar locked himself in his office and refused to answer the phone. A group of department heads, who later entered the office, found...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 109-11
Book Review
The Wheel Keeper
In The Wheel Keeper , first-time novelist Robert Pepper-Smith, an instructor at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has written an engaging and often enchanting tale that draws heavily on three generations of the...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
Book Review
High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The commercial salmon fishery has recently inspired a spate of books on the fading of the salmon industry. This volume fits into that literature. Among its special virtues are its basis in a specific area...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 127-8
Book Review
Book Review
Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
A welcome addition to the literature on Aboriginal symbolic politics and direct action in Canada, this book describes the standoff between the rcmp and a handful of Native activists and supporters at Gustafsen Lake, British...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 112-4
Book Review
Book Review
Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970
In this interesting book, Michael Dawson studies the rise of a tourist economy in British Columbia over the course of the twentieth century. At the heart of the story are loosely related groups of tourist...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 103-5
Book Review
The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
THIS LONG-AWAITED BOOK argues that the Slocan Valley, through its often dramatic history, is a reflection of the region and its connection with events in British Columbia and Canada. Not so much a local history,...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 134-5
Book Review
Book Review
The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters
THE INTENT OF The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters is to present the “Native point of view” and so that will also be the perspective of this book review. On the surface of things, the method...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 120-2
Book Review
Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
PHOTOGRAPHS OCCUPY a paradoxical place in our historical imagination. As Carol J. Williams notes in the introduction to Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest, contemporary historians have primarily...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 118-20
Book Review
The Old Red Shirt: Pioneer Poets of British Columbia
THE TITLE OF The Old Red Shirt comes from one of the poems that Yvonne Mearns Klan collects in this wonderful book. The poem in question is by Rebecca Gibbs, a black woman who had established...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 113-4
Book Review
Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community
THE CURRENT POLITICAL climate in British Columbia is one that seeks to resolve Aboriginal legal entitlements and treaty rights through verification of precolonial practices and residency. Since 2000, when the so-called modern-day treaty process was...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 129-31
Book Review
When Coal Was King: Ladysmith in the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island
WHEN COAL WAS KING, Ladysmith was a small, undistinguished pit-town, one of thousands around the industrializingworld. On the eve of the Great War, Ladysmith’s population barely passed 3,200. Compared with Nanaimo or Cumberland, let alone...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 125-6
Book Review
Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Non-recognition
A TEXT THAT PURPORTS to examine the experiences of indigenous peoples on a global scale is by definition ambitious and, thus, open to a variety of critiques. These works tend to sacrifice detailed analysis in favour...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 121-2
Book Review
The Comox Valley: Courtnay, Comox, Cumberland, and Area
In the publisher’s promotional sheet, this attractive book is described as “an intimate portrait of an incredibly beautiful and special place.” This sense of affection for the region comes across strongly in the course of...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 195-7
Book Review
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Coll Thrush’s book lies at the intersection of two bodies of scholarship that usually run parallel to each other. Urban history and Indian history meet in Native Seattle with panache and authority. Thrush tracks the...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 186-7
Book Review
Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West
DAVID PETERSON DEL MAR’S work on violence against wives is well known to social and legal historians, and in this important, innovative, and provocative new book, he has broadened his approach to examine interpersonal violence...