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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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High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The commercial salmon fishery has recently inspired a spate of books on the fading of the salmon industry. This volume fits into that literature. Among its special virtues are its basis in a specific area...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 127-8
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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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Atlas of Pacific Salmon
Journalist Timothy Egan once wrote that the Pacific Northwest “is wherever the salmon can get to.” As woefully provincial as he was, Egan unwittingly revealed the absence of an alternative way to regionalize the seven...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 116-8
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Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals
In Healing in the Wilderness Bob Burrows recounts the origins and evolution of the medical missions established and maintained by the United Church and its antecedents in isolated communities across Canada. An ordained United Church...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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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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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...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 108-10
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
This book represents an expanded form of the much debated revelations of Samuel Bawlf concerning the Pacific Ocean explorations of Francis Drake during his 1577–80 voyage of circumnavigation. Parts of the voyage account are well known,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 101-3
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
THE NATURE OF GOLD is in several ways a path-breaking work since, although there is a large literature on Yukon environment, there has been very little written on the environmental history of the Territory, and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 126-8
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Oregon’s Promise: An Interpretive History
WHY SHOULD BC Studies review a history of the State of Oregon, situated in another country and some 300 kilometres to the south? For many reasons. Our province and Oregon lie in a single economic-environmental...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 122-4
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The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters
THE INTENT OF The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters is to present the “Native point of view” and so that will also be the perspective of this book review. On the surface of things, the method...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 120-2
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Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
PHOTOGRAPHS OCCUPY a paradoxical place in our historical imagination. As Carol J. Williams notes in the introduction to Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest, contemporary historians have primarily...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 118-20
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McGowan’s War: The Birth of Modern British Columbia on the Fraser River Gold Fields
IN 1858 TENS OF thousands of non-Native goldseekers rushed to the Fraser River in search of gold, a substantial number of them being American citizens who paid little heed to British sovereignty in the region....
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 144-5
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A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
JAMES COLNETT will always remain a name of notoriety in world history for it is he who responded to Commandant Esteban Martinez’s demands and formalities at Nootka Sound in 1789 and started, so it is...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 131-3
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When Coal Was King: Ladysmith in the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island
WHEN COAL WAS KING, Ladysmith was a small, undistinguished pit-town, one of thousands around the industrializingworld. On the eve of the Great War, Ladysmith’s population barely passed 3,200. Compared with Nanaimo or Cumberland, let alone...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 125-6
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Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Non-recognition
A TEXT THAT PURPORTS to examine the experiences of indigenous peoples on a global scale is by definition ambitious and, thus, open to a variety of critiques. These works tend to sacrifice detailed analysis in favour...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 121-2
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The Comox Valley: Courtnay, Comox, Cumberland, and Area
In the publisher’s promotional sheet, this attractive book is described as “an intimate portrait of an incredibly beautiful and special place.” This sense of affection for the region comes across strongly in the course of...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 195-7
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Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Coll Thrush’s book lies at the intersection of two bodies of scholarship that usually run parallel to each other. Urban history and Indian history meet in Native Seattle with panache and authority. Thrush tracks the...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 186-7
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: Douglas Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
More than an exhibition catalogue but every bit that as well, Jack Nisbet’s Mapmaker’s Eye takes its reader farther into Anglo-Welsh-Canadian explorer David Thompson’s five years (1808-12) on the Pacific Slope than has any previous...