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Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family
Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family, finds Hugh Johnston, the leading expert on early South Asian migration to Canada, on familiar terrain. This time Johnston provides a rare familial and...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 182-183
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Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood
Vancouver’s Chinatown has been the subject of numerous notable academic studies, providing a focus that has proven to be essential to the Canadian historical narrative. In analyzing the history of Vancouver’s Chinatown, scholars have made...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 190-91
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Selling Canada: Three Propaganda Campaigns that Shaped the Nation
In his latest project Daniel Francis takes on a series of publicity campaigns, running from the 1870s through to 1940: immigration to western Canada, the First World War, and the promotion of tourism from the...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 182-83
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Yip Sang and the First Chinese Canadians
Francis Hern’s Yip Sang and the First Chinese Canadians is the biography of a prominent merchant in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The story begins with Yip Sang’s arrival in...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 189-90
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Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
This is a groundbreaking book in Chinese Canadian History and in the history of the global Chinese diaspora. It challenges conventional perceptions of Chinese relations with the mainstream society in Canada during the historical era...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 147-48
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Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
In September 1922, the Victoria, B.C. school board ordered 155 Chinese children (97 were Canadian-born and many spoke only English) to leave its regular elementary schools and move to segregated schools which only they would...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition 3rd Edition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 132-3
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Whoever Gives us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
More than twenty years ago, Gabriele Scardellato lamented the dearth of attention to Italian Canadians living “beyond the frozen wastes” (Scardellato 1989). There have been modest advances since that time, including Patricia K. Wood’s Nationalism...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 160-62
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Chilliwack’s Chinatowns: A History
Writing about immigrants has long been central to Canadian historical scholarship. Today, the history of immigration also constitutes an essential element of the popular imagination in Canada and, in turn, of our sense of national...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 131-32
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Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada
I am particularly interested in this volume, having been born in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 1938 and having a father who was treasurer of a district association. He was a shirt tailor, and I remember in...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 158-161
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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism is one of those unique edited volumes in which the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. As suggested in the subtitle, the legacy of J.S. Woodsworth...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 141-45
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Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Kristin R. Good, a political scientist, accomplished two main objectives in this book: (1) investigating how and why municipalities responded to dramatic changes in their ethno-cultural composition and (2) evaluating her findings about municipal multicultural...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 177-179
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UBC: The First 100 Years
With its heavy glossy paper, large format, and copious illustrations, this looks like a celebratory coffee table book. To classify it as such would be wrong. Drawing on previous histories of the University of British...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11
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Gold Dust on His Shirt: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Family
British Columbia produces an astounding number of works on non-British immigrants on the west coast. Many recent books, such as Voices Raised in Protest (2008), The Triumph of Citizenship (2007), Nikkei Fishermen on the BC...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 142-3
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The Ker Family of Victoria, 1859- 1976: Pioneer Industrialists in Western Canada
Approached by David Nation Ker to document the history of his family in British Columbia since Robert Ker’s arrival in 1859, John Adams has produced an engaging narrative, principally focused on the lives and careers...