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Review

UBC: The First 100 Years

By Patricia Roy

BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | p. 109-11

article

Russian Revolutionaries in the Port of Vancouver, 1917

By William Rodney

communism

communism

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

Russia

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 16 Winter 1972-1973 | p. 25-31

article

Beyond Being Others: Chinese Canadians as National History

By Lisa Rose Mar

chinese

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

newspapers

BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | p. 13-34

article

The Komagata Maru and the Ghadr Party: Past and Present Aspects of a Historic Challenge to Canada’s Exclusion of Immigrants from India

By Hugh J.M. Johnston

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

India

Komagata Maru

Komagata Maru

South Asians

BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | p. 43356

article

Komagata Maru Revisited: “Hindus,” Hookworm, and the Guise of Public Health Protection

By Isabel Wallace

health

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

Komagata Maru

Komagata Maru

race and racism

race and racism

race and racism

South Asians

BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | p. 33-50

article

Between South China and British Columbia: Life Trajectories of Chinese Women

By Yuen-Fong Woon

chinese

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

women

women

BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | p. 83-107

Review

Gold Dust on His Shirt: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Family

By Eva St. Jean

BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | p. 142-3

article

“Orienting” the Empire: Mackenzie King and the Aftermath of the 1907 Race Riots

By John Price

chinese

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

japanese people

race and racism

race and racism

race and racism

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | p. 53-81

article

SUCCESS: A Chinese Voluntary Association in Vancouver

By Shibao Guo

chinese

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

social services

social services

BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | p. 97-119

article

Negotiating the Boundaries of Race and Class: Meiji Diplomatic Responses to North American Categories of Exclusion

By Andrea Geiger

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

japanese people

labour force

race and racism

race and racism

race and racism

BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | p. 37-51

article

Canada’s Struggle with Illegal Entry on Its West Coast: The Case of Fred Yoshy and Japanese Migrants before the Second World War

By James D. Cameron

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

japanese people

BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | p. 37-62

article

Group Identity in an Emigrant Worker Community: The Example of Sikhs in early Twentieth-Century British Columbia

By Hugh Johnston

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

India

labour force

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | p. 3-23

article

“Witnessing” Social Suffering: Testimonial Narratives of Women from Afghanistan

By Parin Dossa

Anthropology

anthropology

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | p. 27-49

article

Exploring Myths in Womens Narratives: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947-1961

By Alexandra Freund, Laura Quilici

Germans

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

Italians

Vancouver

women

women

BC Studies no. 105-106 Spring-Summer 1995 | p. 159-182

article

Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia

By Michiko Midge Ayukawa

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

japanese people

women

women

BC Studies no. 105-106 Spring-Summer 1995 | p. 103-18

Review

Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941

By Jacqueline Gresko

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | p. 195-6

Review

The Ker Family of Victoria, 1859- 1976: Pioneer Industrialists in Western Canada

By Jamie Morton

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | p. 196-8

Review

Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

By Frances Henry

BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | p. 135-137

Review

The Trail of 1858: British Columbia’s Gold Rush Past

By Daniel Marshall

BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | p. 121-3

Review

In Search of Canadian Political Culture

By Dennis Pilon

BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | p. 152-5

Review

The Ambitious City: A History of the City of North Vancouver

By Meg Stanley

BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | p. 158-160

Review

Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990’s

By Lori Chambers

BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | p. 134-7

Review

Finding Home: A War Child’s Journey to Peace

By Christian Lieb

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | p. 123-5

Review

The Wheel Keeper

By Gabriele Scardellato

BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | p. 132-4

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