Index

Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order

Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order aims to give voice to street-based sex workers in urban Canada, in particular Indigenous women who face intersecting stigma associated with sex work, racism, and...

Review by Cecilia Benoit

BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 177-179

From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights

From Treaty Peoples To Treaty Nation: A Road Map for All Canadians

Review by Neil Vallance

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Pages 150-152

The Canadian “West” as a Public Policy Space? Public Policies in Western Canadian Provinces from a National and Cross-National Perspective

By Gerard W. Boychuk, Debora L. Vannijnatten

BC Studies no. 133 Spring 2002 | Page(s) 5-30

government legislation public policy

Common Bonds: A History of Greater Vancouver Community Credit Union

The credit union movement in British Columbia is, in a way, a legacy of the Great Depression. When banks and governments were unwilling or unable to respond appropriately to economic crisis, mutual aid arrangements became...

Review by Lani Russwurm

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 172-173

Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908

  At first glance, a review of the biography of a nineteenth century Quebec politician seems out of place in BC Studies. Born in France in 1829 to a wealthy French Protestant father and his...

Review by Patricia E. Roy

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 155-156

“We Shall Arrive at the “Utopia” of Nursing”: Reconceptualizing Nursing Labour in British Columbia, 1945-1965

By Peter L. Twohig

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 9-30

schooling labour force nursing legislation

Tenant Organizing and the Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, 1968–75

By Paul S. Jon

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 31-58

housing real estate legislation politics

Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84

In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...

Review by Lisa Pasolli

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44

Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876

This is a timely, thoughtful, and useful collection of primary documents on the history of the interactions among Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, and the Canadian state. Given what is currently available, it will be invaluable...

Review by Hamar Foster

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120

Adapting to Miners’ Practices: The Development of Gold Mining Law and the 1863 Mining Board

By Thomas Mills

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 43-65

gold rush mining legislation Cairboo Fraser River

Let’s Talk About Schools: Educational Policy-Making in British Columbia in the 1970s and 1980s

By Robert Whiteley

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 15-39

education legislation public policy Social Credit party

“Everybody knows what a picket line means”: Picketing before the British Columbia Court of Appeal

By Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 53-79

strikes and lockouts trade unions British Columbia Court of Appeal law legislation

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

Mark Abley was understandably alarmed when an impeccably dressed apparition appeared in his living room claiming to be Duncan Campbell Scott. An accomplished and respected poet, Scott spent over fifty years working in Canada’s Department of...

Review by Keith D. Smith

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 225-26

Soldiers, Settlement and Development in British Columbia, 1915-1930

By Paul M. Koroscil

BC Studies no. 54 Summer 1982 | Page(s) 63-87

land settlement military history Kwakwaka'wakw legislation agriculture Merville

The Pearse Commission and the Industrial Organization of the British Columbia Forest Industry

By Richard Schwindt

BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | Page(s) 3-35

forestry labour force Pearse Commission government control legislation

The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment

The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution

Review by Benjamin J. Richardson

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Pages 241-243

Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

In 1871 in the process of dismantling the mibun or caste system that had been the basis of Japanese politics and society for hundreds of years, the fledgling Meiji government emancipated the buraku jūmin, or...

Review by Joel Legassie

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 144-45

Vladimir Krajina: World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer

This book is a major addition to our understanding of Vladimir Krajina’s life and times because it provides a clear context to the life of this remarkable citizen. Jan Drabek’s father and Krajina played different...

Review by Iain Taylor

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 212-214

Who Killed Janet Smith?

In late July 1924 in a house in the upper crust neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, around midday, a Scots nursemaid was found dead in the basement by the Chinese “house boy,” Wing Fong Sing....

Review by John McLaren

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 185-187

The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver

Everyone who has spent any time researching Vancouver history seems to have a Chuck Davis story. Here’s mine. It’s about 1980, I’m a callow not-easily-impressed grad student doing work on some arcane heritage tax law...

Review by John Belshaw

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 130-31

Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Accommodation in Canada and India

The author is a professor of Political Science in Shillong, the capital of the tiny hill state of Magalaya in the tribal area of North Eastern India. This is a state that, by official figures,...

Review by Hugh Johnston

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 138-39

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...

Review by LiLynn Wan

BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 190-91

The Principal’s Office – And Beyond, Volumes 1 (1849-1960) and Volume 2 (1961-2005)

This study considers the development of public education in British Columbia mainly from the perspective of school principals. The author is a prominent scholar in the field of education history and a provocative critic of...

Review by Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 164-5

Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927

The negotiation and signing of the numbered treaties with First Nations groups in Western Canada, followed shortly thereafter by the opening of the territory to Euro-Canadian settlement, served to consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the...

Review by Heather Devine

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 167-8