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Rain Before Morning
In the spring of 1913, sisters Leah and Elspeth Jamieson, seventeen and eighteen years old, respectively, travel on the Union Steamship Comox from Vancouver past Halfmoon Bay and Pender Harbour to their parents’ home at...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 144-5
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Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
COMPANY TOWNS – once ubiquitous across the greater North American West – usually originated in the corporate need for labour in isolated areas of resource extraction. Even those who remember favourably their experiences in company...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 128-9
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Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii
In Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii, Louise Takeda challenges the dominant epistemological perspective on the politics of BC resource management in order to “[further] political and social justice” and “give back”...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51
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The Royal Fjord: Memories of Jervis Inlet
In The Royal Fjord, Ray Phillips, a long-time resident of the Sunshine Coast, finishes a job his late father started. It is, says Phillips, a book of “many anecdotes [and other stories that] tell some...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 230-231
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Blockades or Breakthroughs?: Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
Canada is no stranger to Aboriginal direct action: “Oka, Ipperwash, Caledonia. Blockades, masked warriors, police snipers” (3). Citing this excerpt from the 2006 report of Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal peoples to introduce the collection...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 165-167
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High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The commercial salmon fishery has recently inspired a spate of books on the fading of the salmon industry. This volume fits into that literature. Among its special virtues are its basis in a specific area...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 127-8
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The Old Red Shirt: Pioneer Poets of British Columbia
THE TITLE OF The Old Red Shirt comes from one of the poems that Yvonne Mearns Klan collects in this wonderful book. The poem in question is by Rebecca Gibbs, a black woman who had established...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 113-4
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Murder in the Monashees: A Mystery
Russell Montgomery, an office worker from Vancouver, has come to the Monashee Mountains for one week in the hope of shooting a mule deer stag. Through his scope, he fixes a buck, seventy-five yards away....
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 134-6
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Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia
Megan Davies’s carefully worked study on residential care for the aged in British Columbia does in deed take us into the “house of old.” And it is a sad journey, made more resonant to many...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 87-9
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Nechako Country: In the Footsteps of Bert Irvine
This personal history is written in concise and readable prose. It is an account of the life of Bert Irvine, an oil worker, soldier, carpenter, trapper, and wilderness guide who chose to live close to nature....
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 145-6
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Making Wawa: The Genesis of Chinook Jargon
It is difficult to research and write about the history of British Columbia without coming across snippets of Chinook Jargon. Within living memory, it was the lingua franca in coastal logging camps and salmon canneries,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 109-10
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Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
British Columbia is noteworthy among Canadian provinces for its paucity of good farmland. Too much is rocky, the coastal forests are daunting, a great deal is arid, elevations are too great to support crops, and...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 141-3
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Salmon Farming: The Whole Story
Salmon Farming : The Whole Story is not the “whole story,” but it is certainly the standard story that fish farmers like to tell of an industry maligned by “constant high-profile public opposition” (18). Peter...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 155-7
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Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community
THE CURRENT POLITICAL climate in British Columbia is one that seeks to resolve Aboriginal legal entitlements and treaty rights through verification of precolonial practices and residency. Since 2000, when the so-called modern-day treaty process was...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 129-31
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Harbour City: Nanaimo in Transition, 1920-1967
Nanaimo is a perplexing place for a historian. The city’s elected officials and first Nations leaders often disregard and frequently disdain historical structures. Recently, two buildings that had been listed on the city’s heritage register...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 193-5
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Raven Walks Around the World
In Raven Walks Around the World, Henley shares parts of his personal journey of activism, travel, and life long work with Indigenous peoples around the world. Through his stories, Henley illuminates the determination of all...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 180-181
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At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast
Caroline Fox presents in the guise of an account of her experiences as a field biologist a wonderful memoir of coastal British Columbia. Onboard the sailboat Achiever, her job was to survey birds from Vancouver Island to...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 149-105
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A Mill Behind Every Stump
This modest book aims to preserve the vanishing world of the Cariboo homesteader. It recounts a life of geographic isolation, in Secwépemc traditional territory, that bred both freedom and self-reliance. Life in this context also cultivated...