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Book Review
This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald’s letters from the Columbia River, 1822-44
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 132, Winter 2001
BC Studies no. 132 Winter 2001-2002 | Page(s) 100-1
Book Review
Sakura in the Land of the Maple Leaf: Japanese Cultural Traditions in Canada
This book, edited by the curator of Asian studies at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, is a worthy publication. It is a compilation of three research projects conducted in 1976-77 for the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 156-9
Book Review
The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast
As a study of missionary imperialism, Mary-Ellen Kelm’s edition of the letters Margaret Butcher wrote from Kitamaat between 1916 and 1919 makes an important contribution to historical conversations about the Haisla, missionaries, and residential schools...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 152-4
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National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
Leslie Dawn makes an ambitious contribution to a hotly debated topic of Canadian cultural history – the role of the visual arts in the formation of the image of a modern Canadian nation. The title’s...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 179-83
Book Review
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture
Tim Bowling, who spent his child-hood on the west coast of British Columbia and now lives in Edmonton, is perhaps better known as a poet than a prose writer. He has published seven collections of...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 128-130
Book Review
Dark Storm Moving West
“The trouble with narrative – telling stories, making histories,” Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening says, “is that it is so easy, but thinking about it is so hard” (Performances, 1996). I suspect Barbara Belyea would agree,...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 126-8
Book Review
Phantom Limb
A phantom limb is an amputated arm or leg that feels like it hasn’t gone anywhere. At the end of a phantom arm, for instance, the fingers of a phantom hand still feel heat, the touch...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 123-5
Book Review
Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory
I live on forested acreage at the north end of the Sechelt Peninsula, surrounded by salal. I think of Gaultheria shallon as the signature plant of the landscape I have loved my whole life. The glossy...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 120-1
Book Review
Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) Curator of Western Subarctic Ethnology, has produced a lavishly illustrated book, compelling for its quality of images, clarity of writing, and elegance of design. Seventy-one rarely published and...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 118-20
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Companions of the Peace: Diaries and Letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 127, Autumn 2000
BC Studies no. 127 Autumn 2000 | Page(s) 128-30
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Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 129, Spring 2001
BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Page(s) 111-2
Book Review
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash is an accessible, succinct narrative of George Vancouver’s life, focusing on the voyage he led into the Pacific in the late 18th century. Bown’s stated goal is to give Vancouver...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 135-6
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In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing
The twelfth and most recent volume in NeWest Press’s Writer as Critic series, Roy Miki’s In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing, like others in the series, approaches writing as praxical intervention. Beginning with...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 154-155
Book Review
Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930
In Hearts and Minds, Dan Azoulay includes part of a 1913 letter from a young woman lamenting her lack of companionship: “although I like Vancouver very much I am not acquainted with many people, and...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 144-145
Book Review
Making Headlines: 100 Years of the Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun turned one hundred in 2012. To mark this event, reporter Shelley Fralic compiled a (roughly) chronological account of goings-on in the city and at the paper itself. It is not so much...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 139-141
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Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918, More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...