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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...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 155-156
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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...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44
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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...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120
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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...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 225-26
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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...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 144-45
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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...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 212-214
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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....
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 185-187
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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...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 130-31
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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,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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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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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...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 164-5
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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...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 167-8
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British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years
James D. Anderson’s British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years is a tribute to the first century of the Provincial Park system in BC. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history, sensitive to ongoing...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 134-5
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Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast
This generously illustrated exhibition catalogue introduces the work of forty contemporary First Nations artists, ranging from emerging practitioners such as Shawn Hunt and Alano Edzerza to internationally renowned individuals such as Robert Davidson and Susan...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 132-133
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Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
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Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Discussion of land governance and land administration matters on Indian Act reserves in Canada has persisted for several decades. There is a general consensus that the lands have been poorly managed by a federal department...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 103-105
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Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920
It took a mountain of labour to write this book, but the result is a molehill of meaningful history. This is the second volume of Ian McKay’s planned multi-volume history of the left in Canada,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 122-127
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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 135-136
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Environmental Law: A Study of Legislation Affecting the Environment of British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 33, Spring 1977
BC Studies no. 33 Spring 1977 | Page(s) 51-4
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Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990’s
This book is a long-overdue corrective to existing literature on the history of the Canadian family. Adoption, as Veronica Strong-Boag asserts, “is a far from marginal phenomenon in Canadian history” (vii), yet historians have given...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 134-7
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Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Australia is one of the few countries of the world where academics and politicians often debate interpretations of their country’s history in the national media. They focus on the story of Aborigine-settler relations. Even the...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
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Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada
One of the most contentious aspects of politics is the legislation of morals. How much should governments be beholden to any one set of religious beliefs held by influential minorities or a major ity? Chris...