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Kosaburo Shimizu: The Early Diaries, 1909-1926
Many ISSEI , first-generat ion Japanese immigrants, kept diaries – but rarely in English. Now, thanks to translations by his son-in-law, informed and sensitive introductions by his daughter, and the support of other family members,...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 131-2
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First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Alan Twigg is the publisher of BC BookWorld, which plays an important role in the literary life of British Columbia, and the author of eight previous books, chiefly on literature and politics. First Invaders is...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 126-8
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Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Authentic Indians examines the pressure exerted on a minority to conform to an ideal that the majority defined by another ideal – in short, two abstractions played off one another. Paige Raibmon calls this a...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 113-6
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Birthright
In the last half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, intimate relationships between indigenous women and settler men were freighted with a complicated and at times conflicting set of...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 126-8
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Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell’s Canyon High Dam Controversy
This is a book about why something did not happen. It is not quite counter-factual history, but it is an approach that works to remind us that nothing is inevitable. In the postwar Northwest, nothing,...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 122-4
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Switchbacks: Art, Ownership and Nuxalk National Identity
Jennifer Kramer’s book describes some recent negotiations of public representation and the incipient construction of national identity through the disposition of works of art by the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. This book...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 117-20
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Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse
Presented as a discourse-centred approach to understanding landstory relations in Secwepemc experience, Maps of Experience provides candid and powerful insights into contemporary First Nations experiences. The book establishes a place for itself in the remarkable...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 115-7
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British Columbia, The Pacific Province: Geographical Essays
UNTIL RECENTLY, geographers looking for a reasonably comprehensive, but decidedly current, introductory text or compilation of essays having a regional and/or thematic focus on the geography of British Columbia had little with which to work....
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 201-3
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Fur Traders from New England: The Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800
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BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 70-1
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In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
As the trial of the serial killer ac cused of murdering women from the Downtown Eastside continues, the Woodward’s building on Hastings Street is turned into luxury condominiums, and the 2010 Olympics draw closer, the...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 101-2
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Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada
One of the most contentious aspects of politics is the legislation of morals. How much should governments be beholden to any one set of religious beliefs held by influential minorities or a major ity? Chris...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 99-101
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A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound
Clayoquot Sound. Home of the Nu-Chah-Nuulth First Nation for thousands of years. Home of loggers and fishers who have contributed to a global market for wood and fish products for decades. Home to scenic fjords,...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 120-3
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Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point
Jean Barman brings clarity to a long misunderstood part of the early history of Vancouver and British Columbia. Building upon earlier re-search on Stanley Park by William C. McKee (Urban History Review 3 [1978]), Robert...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 113-5
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Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University
When Simon Fraser University (SFU) opened in the fall of 1965, the registrar locked himself in his office and refused to answer the phone. A group of department heads, who later entered the office, found...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Dream City. The title is captivating, but what does it mean? Lance Berelowitz’s book about changes in the urban design and planning of Vancouver opens and closes by briefly discussing the phrase “dream city,” but...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 107-9
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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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The Wheel Keeper
In The Wheel Keeper , first-time novelist Robert Pepper-Smith, an instructor at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has written an engaging and often enchanting tale that draws heavily on three generations of the...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
According to Patricia Wood, ethnic studies in Canada – or at least the study of Italian immigrants and their descendants – is at best a marginal or fringe activity in the Canadian academy. She complains,...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 123-7
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Watara- Dori (Birds of Passage)
WATARA-DORI (Birds of Passage) is a biographical fiction of a half-year period (24 June 1915 to 1 January 1916) in the life of a Japanese-Canadian fisher. Mitsuo Yesaki has a thorough knowledge of the Pacific coast fisheries,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 120-1
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A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960
An early and still not inappropriate epithet for Vancouver is Terminal City. This epithet denotes not only a peripheral cultural as well as a geographical location but also the city’s potential for development, despite its...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 117-20
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Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
A welcome addition to the literature on Aboriginal symbolic politics and direct action in Canada, this book describes the standoff between the rcmp and a handful of Native activists and supporters at Gustafsen Lake, British...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 112-4
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Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912
This is a wonderful addition to the history of Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia and Canada. It is unusual because it takes images as the starting point and valuable because the people upon whom it...