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Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
The revised third edition of Kilian Crawford’s ground-breaking book on BC’s Black pioneers is timely and essential reading. It is a critical corrective to omissions and erasure in both academic histories and in popular understandings,...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 131-132
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A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada
Historical geographer Cole Harris, professor emeritus at UBC, has in his latest book brought together a number of his articles, some previously published, to focus on the subject of settler colonialism in Canada. It is...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 136-138
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Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw
In 2013 the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition brought together three argillite platters made in the late 1880s by Da.a. xiigang, Charles Edenshaw – one from the Field Museum in Chicago, one from the...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 142-145
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In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island
In Nature’s Realm, a third tome from Michael Layland that focuses on the (mostly) colonial histories of Vancouver Island, is an artistic and literary achievement. Layland’s hybrid of chronological and thematic descriptions of Vancouver Island-related...
BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 145-147
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At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada’s West Coast
In recent years, local opposition to the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in BC has confounded the plans of oil investors and federal officials alike. The government of Alberta has declared its right to...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 140-141
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“Opposition on the Coast”: The Hudson’s Bay Company, American Coasters, the Russian American Company, and Native Traders on the Northwest Coast, 1825-1846
Jim Gibson has assembled a collection of primary sources: 27 documents from Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) archives, British Columbia provincial archives, and microfilm of Russian-American Company (RAC) records from the US National Archives. A significant...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 121-122
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New Ground: A Memoir of Art and Activism in BC’s Interior
New Ground: A Memoir of Art and Activism in BC’s Interior is more than just a memoir about Ann Kujundzic’s life — it is a beautifully crafted encounter with Kujundzic and all of the histories that...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 126-127
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Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence and the Settler Everyday in British Columbia
The history of colonial British Columbia is, in many respects, well-trodden ground. Over the past few decades, scholars like Jean Barman, Cole Harris, and Adele Perry have made multiple transformative contributions to our understanding of...
BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 122-124
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Voices from the Skeena: An Illustrated Oral History
Many familiar with Imbert Orchard’s CBC radio interviews from the 1960s will welcome this publication of transcriptions of oral interviews relating to the history of the Skeena River together with forty illustrations executed by the...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 123-124
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This Was Our Valley
The 2019 edition of This Was Our Valley by Shirlee Smith Matheson and Earl K. Pollon continues a longstanding conversation about the impacts of large dams in northern British Columbia. This story, told in three acts,...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 121-122
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Vancouverism
It’s best to start any study with a clear, concise, and irrefutable sentence. But “Vancouver is a place” is taking that axiom too far. And, as anyone who knows horses will tell you, a place...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 114-117
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By Law or In Justice
The foundation of Professor Jane Dickson’s book, By Law Or in Justice, is her work as a Commissioner for the Indian Specific Claims Commission, from 2002 to 2009. The Commission itself endured from 1991 to...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 218-219
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Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence
In his famous study Of Wolves and Men (1978), Barry Lopez pertinently noted that ‘the wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you.’ Paula...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 209-210
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Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir
Chasing Smoke is a memoir centered on Aaron Williams’ account of being a wildland firefighter in British Columbia during the 2014 fire season. Williams managed fire as a Telkwa Ranger, a wildland firefighter at the Telkwa...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 150-151
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Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
Today we live in a consumer-oriented culture in which material items help to define who we are, or, who we want to be. To meet our material needs, stores are now open seven days a...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 192-193
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Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast
The sea draws many, to many destinies. Even those of us who are landlocked remain drawn due to history, biology or too much reading. This book offers the stories of 24 women (25 including the...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 184-185
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Asian Canadian Studies Reader
This collection of essays is an integral part of American-modelled activism to establish a collective scholarly field for Asian Canadians beyond national boundaries. Such trials, as the editors argue, have already been initiated, for example,...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 153-154
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Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada
Over the past two decades, community forestry has been adopted with growing frequency across Canada. Localities have sought to balance multiple values – economic, social, environmental – within systems of decentralized forest management. Contributors to Growing...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 164-165
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The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in BC
This is one of those rare collections that focusses on a recent significant political transition. In doing so Jason Lacharite and Tracy Summerville have produced a needed and worthwhile book. For those not cognizant of recent...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 193-194
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Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Writing the Body in Motion, edited by BC writers and literary scholars Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, is an introduction and literary companion for readers wishing to delve into Canadian sports literature. The book is...