Index

A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur

Selected as one of ten Vancouver books reprinted to celebrate the city’s 125th anniversary, A Hard Man to Beat is perhaps even more important now than when it was first published. Then, Bill White’s lively...

Review by Mark Leier

BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 191-93

The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 68, Winter 1985  

Review by Mel Watkins

BC Studies no. 68 Winter 1985-1986 | Page(s) 73-6

After Bennett: A New Politics for British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 79, Autumn 1998  

Review by Lynda Erickson

BC Studies no. 79 Autumn 1988 | Page(s) 92-4

The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America

I must declare an “interest” in this book. Its pictorial dimension consists of reproductions of superb sepia prints made from original glass negatives sold to the Capital Group Foundation by James Graybill, grandson of their...

Review by Mick Gidley

BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 113-5

Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 133-4

The Art of Peer Support: Work, Health, Consumer Participation, and New Forms of Citizenship in Late Twentieth-Century Mental Health Care in British Columbia

By Geertje Boschma, Courtney Devane

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 65-97

hospitals mental health peer support citizenship

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...

Review by Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe

BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 117-20

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...

Review by James Pitsula

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 109-11

Law & Justice in a New Land: Essays in Western Canadian Legal History

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 76, Winter 1987/88  

Review by DeLloyd Guth

BC Studies no. 76 Winter 1987-1988 | Page(s) 91-4

Fur Traders from New England: The Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998  

Review by James Delgado

BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 70-1

Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870

A Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633) was published by command of King Charles I after Thomas James (c.1593-1635) returned from overwintering in James Bay. Dead by 1635, James had nothing to do with the founding...

Review by I.S. MacLaren

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 160-63

The Laird of Fort William: William McGillivray and the North West Company

Forging a Fur Empire: Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809-1824

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man

Review by Robert Foxcurran and John Jackson

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Pages 152-154

Charting a Course: Shellfish Aquaculture and Indigenous Rights in New Zealand and British Columbia

By Chris Tollefson, Robert Scott

BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 3-41

“Chinks Pay Heavily for ‘Hitting Pipe'”: The Perception and Enforcement of Canada’s New Drug Laws in Rural and Northern British Columbia, 1908-30

By Yvan Prkachin

BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 73-105

liquor and drugs chinese legislation

Chinatown Theatre as Transnational Business: New Evidence from Vancouver during the Exclusion Era

By Wing Chung Ng

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 25-54

music theatre business chinese Vancouver

Housing New Canadians in the Central Okanagan, British Columbia

By Carlos Teixeira

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 45-63

immigration housing Kelowna Okanagan Valley Penticton Vernon

“Chinks Pay Heavily for ‘Hitting Pipe'”: The Perception and Enforcement of Canada’s New Drug Laws in Rural and Northern British Columbia, 1908-30

By Yvan Prkachin

BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 73-105

liquor and drugs chinese legislation

New Approaches to the Klondike Gold Rush: A Review Essay

Gold Diggers of the Klondike: Prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon

Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men and Community in the Klondike

Review by Myra Rutherdale

BC Studies no. 121 Spring 1999 | Pages 121-5

Reconciling Issues of Time-Past and Time-Present in New Works of BC Ethnography

Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902

Q'sapi: A History of Okanagan People as Told by Okanagan Families

Review by Wendy C. Wickwire

BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Pages 165-72

Schools for the “Brave New World”: R.A.D. Berwick and School Design in Postwar British Columbia

By Rhodri Windsor Liscombe

BC Studies no. 90 Summer 1991 | Page(s) 25-39

schooling architecture Berwick R.A.D.

“A New Understanding of Things Indian”: George Raley’s Negotiation of the Residential School Experience

By Paige Raibmon

residential schools religion aboriginal people aboriginal art Fraser Valley Raley George Henry

The Grand Hall: First Peoples of Canada’s Northwest Coast

Treasures of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives

Review by Hannah Turner

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 137-139

The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown

Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...

Review by Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164

The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: The Travels, 1850 Version

The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts

Review by Barry Gough

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 149-152