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Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
Eve Lazarus’s fascination with Vancouver’s history continues with her latest book, Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders. Crime buffs and readers interested in true crime literature or in understanding how police investigate...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 171-173
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Writing the Okanagan
George Bowering’s new anthology, Writing the Okanagan, is a collection of Bowering’s fiction associated through setting, choice of characters, or autobiographical referents, with the Okanagan, chiefly the South Okanagan, where he grew up. Many of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 165-166
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No Regrets: Counter-culture and Anarchism in Vancouver
Since the 1960s, anarchist activism has played a critical role in shaping the radical political landscape of Vancouver. Nevertheless, there are very few scholarly considerations of this history. Instead, most of the work that has...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 170-171
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Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism
Indigenous Women and Work, edited by Carol Williams, consists of seventeen essays that examine the history of indigenous women and wage labour in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The object of these...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 146-147
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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
This substantial collection brings interdisciplinary approaches to a range of questions on Aboriginal populations. Aiming to bring about a “comprehensive understanding of the social demographic transformation of the Canadian Aboriginal population” (ix), the contributors review...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149
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Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada’s Second World War
In Allied Power, Matthew Evenden expertly demonstrates how private and public power commissions and corporations throughout Canada expanded hydro-electric capacity in response to the ballooning demands for power and production during the Second World War....
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 161-162
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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar
It was with great anticipation that those of us who study South Asian migration to Canada have awaited the expanded and revised version of Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru. Johnston’s original monograph...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 156-157
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Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic Commodore Ballroom
From the beginning, Aaron Chapman is clear about his intentions for Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historical Commodore Ballroom. The renowned Granville Street concert venue is a place where “The history of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 169-170
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Carlo Gentile, Gold Rush Photographer, 1863-1866
Like most colonial-era Victoria photographers, Carlo Gentile arrived and departed with little notice. Born in Italy, he eventually found his way to California around 1860. Having reached Victoria from San Francisco in 1862, he was...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 152-153
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The Answer is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance
The Answer is Still No is a disparate collection of voices united in opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines: First Nations activists and hereditary chiefs, members of the environmental movement establishment and those self-consciously on...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 187-88
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Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908
At first glance, a review of the biography of a nineteenth century Quebec politician seems out of place in BC Studies. Born in France in 1829 to a wealthy French Protestant father and his...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 155-156
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New Perspectives on the Gold Rush
Under editor Kathryn Bridge, New Perspectives on the Gold Rush teams up academic historians, archaeologists, and museum professionals in an effort to add previously marginalized voices to traditional histories of British Columbia’s gold rush. Despite...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 164-66
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Names on a Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World War I
Sylvia Crooks’s Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II (2005) brought to life the lives of all the men honoured on the Nelson cenotaph and the impact of the war on their families...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 169-171
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Legacy in Time: Three Generations of Mountain Photography in the Canadian West
British Columbia and Alberta are home to the most iconic mountain landscapes in Canada. To many of us, visitors and Canadians alike, these landscapes are the embodiment of Canada. They tempt us to stop, explore,...