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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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The Ones Who Have to Pay: The Soldiers-Poets of Victoria BC in the Great War 1914-1918
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s study of the soldier-poets of the First World War is useful for scholarship and is approachable by a casual reader. Although the tone of this review must be critical, the utility and...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 208-209
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Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway: The Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail and Shortline Years, 1949-2013
Brimming with stunning photos of trains in the Vancouver Island landscape, Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway: The Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail and Shortline Years, 1949-2013 is a detailed account of both the railway’s day-to-day...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 161-62
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Echoes Across Seymour: A History of North Vancouver’s Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove
Janet Pavlik, Desmond Smith, and Eileen Smith have given us another chapter in the history of the Seymour area and North Vancouver’s eastern communities by recording the changes of the last sixty years. Written as...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 166-67
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Creating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
There is no such thing as Indigenous education. There is only cross-cultural education containing negotiations between both Indigenous people and the settler societies that colonized them. Understanding the past is essential, but even if we...
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Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
Selling Sex draws in many authors who have long been involved in the struggle to decriminalize sex work in Canada. The volume offers chapters written by academics, activists, and sex industry workers. Together they make...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 156-57
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Now You’re Logging
Romance, high drama with runaway logging trucks (26-29), and dangerous river crossings of donkey engines (65-72) are all integral parts of this graphic portrayal of British Columbia’s coastal logging scene during the 1930s. Although Griffiths...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 163-64
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British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
In British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas, Derek Hayes uses over 900 contemporary maps to illustrate the history of British Columbia. The maps are beautifully reproduced, carefully analyzed in captions, often supported by useful...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51
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Indigenous Peoples of North America: A Concise Anthropological Overview
Robert Muckle has responded to the market place need for a concise textbook treatment of the lives and circumstances of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Previous works are too long, too detailed, and unreadable...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 145-46
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Sturgeon Reach: Shifting Currents at the Heart of the Fraser
The Fraser River between Mission and Hope has been the cultural hearth of the Stó:lÅ for as long as anyone can remember. Some of British Columbia’s largest Indigenous settlements and most important cultural sites are...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 183-85
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In the Shadow of the Great War: The Milligan and Hart Explorations of Northeastern British Columbia, 1913-14
Jay Sherwood has given us another chapter in the story of how the talented surveyors of the early twentieth century put vast areas of northern British Columbia on the map. The places visited by E.B....
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 214-215
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Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians
The biographies in Deadlines died between 2001 and 2011, had sufficient importance or interest to be have their obituaries published in the Toronto Globe and Mail or be considered for it, and had at least...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 172-73
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the State: International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation
Forest certification has provided fertile ground for social science research and scholarship since the early 1990s. Much of this work has focused on explaining the improbable rise and continuing global significance of the Forest Stewardship...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 180-82
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Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985
Earning a decent living from pottery is difficult. Crafts, in general, do not support high earners. The notion that any amateur can throw a pot has kept professional potters just above the poverty line —...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 147-48
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Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History
The Society for American Archaeology website describes their “Contemporary Perspectives” series, in which Northwest Coast is the second title, as “short volumes focused on the archaeology of a specific region.” Aimed at “busy professionals and...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 220-222
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Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, and Language
Place names have an incalculable value. A name can tie together the particularities of language, history, and tradition. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway have compiled place-names in Nooksack territory. It’s the result of many years...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 216-218
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The True Story of Canada’s “War” of Extermination on the Pacific plus The Tsilhqot’in and Other First Nations Resistance
One should always be skeptical of books when the title proclaims them to be the “true story” on any aspect of history. For truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Tom Swanky’s...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 217-218
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Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia
Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia depicts stories of Canadians who went to Japan, or whose lives, dreams, achievements, and failures were intimately connected to Japan. In contrast to the far more familiar experiences...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 238-240
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast is a significant addition to our understanding of colonialism, settler-Indigenous relations, and human-land relations in British Columbia. Jeff Oliver’s work is part of a growing trend that...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 227-228
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Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams
The story of Greek mariner Juan de Fuca’s report to English merchant Michael Lok, in Venice in 1592, of the entrance to a waterway on the northwest coast of North America around the parallel 48ËšN...