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In the Mind of a Mountie
T.M. “Scotty” Gardiner’s memoir, In the Mind of a Mountie, fits nicely into the genre of heroic Mountie literature that has enjoyed a popular readership since the late nineteenth century. Gardiner, who served with the...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 194-195
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Company, Crown and Colony: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada
In essence, this is a study of governorship, or governorships — Richard Blanshard to Frederick Seymour, with Sir James Douglas as the centrepiece of description. The addition of many charts and tables lend it an...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 172-174
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The Inverted Pyramid
In 2011, the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia celebrated Vancouver’s 125th anniversary with the Vancouver Legacy Book Collection, reissuing ten books that it deemed best representative of British Columbia’s social and literary history....
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 232-234
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Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
Always among the more contentious of Canadian public policies, the control of immigration, legal and illegal, is once again on the front burner. Political scientist Christopher Anderson sets himself the task of explaining the broad...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 143-44
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Ever-Changing Sky: Doris Lee’s Journey from Schoolteacher to Cariboo Rancher
Doris Lee’s memoir, Ever-Changing Sky, offers readers an account of the nearly twenty years she and her husband spent as owner/operators of Big Lake Ranch, deep in the heart of British Columbia’s Cariboo country. Freshly...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 136-37
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific North West Coast
In 1900, after almost fifty years of assiduously keeping a daily diary, Tsimshian leader and Christian, Arthur Wellington Clah, feared he was losing his sight. “But my Lord Jesus Christ push my heart to write...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 225-228
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A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada
This is a book about people in small towns in the west, and the rodeos that have provided ways to negotiate their complex social, economic, and cultural relationships with each other and with the animals...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 189-191
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“We are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
We read this book as the British Columbia government announced that oil and gas development will be banned in the “Sacred Headwaters,” the vast tract of land in North Central British Columbia where the Nass,...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 224-225
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The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The Dunsmuir Years: 1884-1905
Originally, Robert Dunsmuir, the founder of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N), had intended the southern terminus to be Esquimalt and the northern terminus to be Nanaimo, as the name suggests, but before he had...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 178-179
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West
Alexander Caulfield Anderson was born to British parents on a plantation in India in 1814, raised and schooled in England, and in 1831 arrived in Lachine, Lower Canada, where he was promptly hired on as...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 180-82
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At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver, 1937-1998
The historical photography section of the Vancouver Public Library is one of Vancouver’s unexplored treasure troves. Among many other gems, it holds the prints and negatives produced by seven photographers under the auspices of a...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 146-47
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Brian Jungen
The book provides an overview of the career of the artist Brian Jungen, consisting of essays by Daina Augaitis and four other notable curators — Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ralph Rugoff, Kitty Scott, and Trevor Smith. The...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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The British Columbia Court of Appeal: The First Hundred Years, 1910-2010
A law court has an inner life, beyond the many outside lives that it can rescue, ruin, remedy and reward. When it is an appellate court, the urge to converge as group judgment replaces the...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 136-38
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Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror
In Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, Daniel Francis provides an overview of the response of the Canadian state and elite to the postwar labour revolt. Although written for...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 126-28
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Kilts on the Coast: The Scots Who Built BC
Despite the title, this is not a comprehensive history of the Scots in British Columbia. The best overview remains the BC chapter in Ferenc Morton Szasz, Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917 (2000), which...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 161-3
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Is it a house? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington
Synthesizing archaeological research results from the Salish Sea can be a time-consuming task because of the international boundary that currently divides the region. This is further complicated by the rise of cultural resource management archaeology...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 157-9
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Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada
Retail Nation is a thought-provoking study of the intersection between a rapidly growing consumer economy and the formation of culture and identity in Canada between 1890 and 1940. During this period, argues Donica Belisle, department...