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Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Graphic texts are becoming increasingly popular as a way of telling history. Within three months of its official launch, David Wong’s Escape from Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America made...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 179-180
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Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
Epidemics call out the ambulance-chaser in all of us, and for health historians, there is none more attention-grabbing than the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, mistakenly dubbed the “Spanish Flu,” the only infectious disease to stop the...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 183-184
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Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family
Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family, finds Hugh Johnston, the leading expert on early South Asian migration to Canada, on familiar terrain. This time Johnston provides a rare familial and...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 182-183
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The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The Dunsmuir Years: 1884-1905
Originally, Robert Dunsmuir, the founder of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N), had intended the southern terminus to be Esquimalt and the northern terminus to be Nanaimo, as the name suggests, but before he had...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 178-179
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Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
“ Who am I,” asks the narrator in an early poem, “Arras,” by P.K. Page, “or, who am I become…?” (144). It’s a question Page was to return to many times, in both her literary...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 197-199
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Craigflower Country: A History of View Royal, 1850-1950
Craigflower country was the area of greater Victoria between the waters of the Gorge waterway and Esquimalt harbour. Today it is within the town of View Royal, to the northwest of the city. Craigflower was...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 177-178
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Bluebacks and Silver Brights: A Lifetime in the BC Fisheries From Bounty to Plunder
For sixty years the Campbell Avenue fish dock on Burrard Inlet was the hub of Vancouver’s fishing industry, home to numerous fish plants, smokehouses, and floats where the boats tied up. The Safarik family business,...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 187-189
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Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest, also known as the North and Central Coast of British Columbia, is one of the last intact temperate rainforests left in the world. This region has received much attention since 1989,...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 199-201
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City Critters: Wildlife in the Urban Jungle
This beautifully illustrated volume introduces readers young and old to the diversity of wild animals that share urban environments with us. Through entertaining anecdotes and compelling and often humorous narrative, Nicholas Read explains where these...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 198-99
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Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe
Most people identify Northwest Coast Aboriginal culture with the totem pole, most notably with the dramatic Thunderbird-winged carvings of the Kwakwaka’wakw Peoples. In Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe, Martine Reid and co-authors James Raffan and Michael...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 113-14
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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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Angus McDonald of the Great Divide: The Uncommon Life of a Fur Trader 1816-1889
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) has been the source for North American historians since the late nineteenth century. From the beginnings of it adventures in the fur trade, the Company’s head office in London sent...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 118-19
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The Cannibal Spirit
Harry Whitehead’s novel The Cannibal Spirit fictionalizes one of the most important figures in the history of BC anthropology, Franz Boas’s long-time collaborator George Hunt. With many points of reference to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 114-15
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The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thorton
Sheryl Salloum’s new book The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton explores why this important BC artist has generally been ignored in the historical record and cultural landscape of this province. Given that she...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 181-2
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Taking My Life
In 2008, when researching Canadian women authors, Linda Morra discovered an unpublished autobiography written by Jane Rule in the 1980s, just before her retirement from writing, in which she recounts with frankness and humour her...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 185-7
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Lillian Alling: The Journey Home
In 1929, Lillian Alling reached the coast of Alaska on her way to Siberia. Her three-year walk across North America began in New York City and ended at Cape Wales where her footsteps disappeared after...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 175-6
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The Good Hope Cannery: Life and Death at a Salmon Cannery
Until post-war technology allowed for the centralization of salmon canning, the industry relied on numerous canneries located close to the fishing grounds. More than 200 canneries were scattered along the BC coast, and apart from...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 170-1
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Long Beach Wild: A Celebration of People and Place on Canada’s Rugged Western Shore
Long Beach Wild is the kind of book that academics are often quick to dismiss. It’s popular history, after all (academics, of course, preferring unpopular histories), by a freelance writer whose many previous works include...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 187-8
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Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century
In Nature’s Northwest, William G. Robbins and Katrine Barber have synthesized a wealth of scholarship on the Greater Northwest, encompassing Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana, and southern British Columbia. The authors track social, economic, political,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 124-26
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Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St. Ann in Health Care in British Columbia
Today, Mount St. Mary Hospital, an extended care facility in Victoria, is one of the last visible legacies of the Sisters of St. Ann’s contributions to health care in British Columbia. But for more than...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 163
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Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West
Nayan Shah observes that historians get it wrong when they privilege permanent populations over transient, the nuclear family over other domestic arrangements, and polarized rather than various gender roles. He complains – fairly —...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 174-5
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V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
V6A is a postal code prefix in Vancouver. It is, thus, an artificial geographical space defined by a bureaucracy housed far from V6A itself. It runs from Burrard Inlet south to False Creek and Great...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 178-80
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The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History 1945-1953
The writing of Canadian Theatre History, as an academic field of study, is a latecomer, with the first wave of academic articles and books appearing only in the mid-1970s along with the founding the Association...