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Book Review
Becoming British Columbia: A Population History
If Canada, as William Lyon Mackenzie King once quipped, has too much geography, John Belshaw might well reply that Canadian historiography has too little demography. Regional historical writing, including that found in British Columbia, has...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 120-122
Book Review
One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30
Book Review
The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
William Turkel grew up in central British Columbia; studied linguistics and psychology before undertaking doctoral studies in history, anthropology, and the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and now teaches...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 134-6
Book Review
Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849- 1925
Landing Native Fisheries is an important contribution to the history of fisheries and a good companion to Harris’ Fish, Law, and Colonialism (2001). This is a serious study that demonstrates conclusively that dispossession of Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 138-40
Book Review
Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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Land, Man, and the Law
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 24, Winter 1974/75
BC Studies no. 24 Winter 1974 | Page(s) 98-101
Book Review
Natural Resource Revenues: A Test of Federalism
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 35, Autumn 1977
BC Studies no. 35 Autumn 1977 | Page(s) 66-7
Book Review
Natural Resources of British Columbia and the Yukon
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 35, Autumn 1977
BC Studies no. 35 Autumn 1977 | Page(s) 67-9
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Waterfowl on a Pacific Estuary: A Natural History of Man and Waterfowl on the Lower Fraser River
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 61, Spring 1984
BC Studies no. 61 Spring 1984 | Page(s) 88-9
Book Review
Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 232-4
Book Review
After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 87, Autumn 1990
BC Studies no. 87 Autumn 1990 | Page(s) 94-7
Book Review
Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
IN SEPTEMBER 1996 Don “Lelooska” Smith, a highly regarded Northwest Coast artist, was laid to rest near his home in Ariel, Washington. The present volume is the result of a collaboration between Lelooska and historian...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 121-3
Book Review
Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
Book Review
Finding Ft. George
One challenge of writing a poetry collection that centres around rural life is that the poet is automatically engaged with debates between centre and periphery, between the urban and the rural, and, in the case...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 145-7
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Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia
John Calvert is a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, but this is not the kind of book one expects from an academic. It presents a conspiracy theory in which the sole purpose...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 162-4
Book Review
Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
Resilience. This is a word that, for me, conjures up a feeling of hard times met with bald-faced determination to get through whatever comes one’s way. Coasts under Stress brings this idea to life through...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 164-6
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Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment
It is sometimes forgotten that rural Canada is on the front lines of some of the most important changes and challenges facing this country. By now, we are accustomed to hearing about looming crises in...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 146-7
Book Review
Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934
How many Canadians know exactly where Nome is? Yes, we know it’s in Alaska, though the author of this book may not be confident that all readers will know, since he names the state as...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 153-4
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Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada’s Pacific Coast Fisheries
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 108, Winter 1995/96
BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 94-9
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Cork Lines and Canning Lines: The Glory Years of Fishing on the West Coast
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 108, Winter 1995/96
BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 105-6
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Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 201-4
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Senewelets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92