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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
The negotiation and signing of the numbered treaties with First Nations groups in Western Canada, followed shortly thereafter by the opening of the territory to Euro-Canadian settlement, served to consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 167-8
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Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story
As one Daily Province journalist put it in 1916, “to write an article about English Bay without referring to Joe Fortes, would be like Hamlet without the Prince” (118). For nearly forty years the legendary...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 172-4
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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
Westward Bound is a work of remarkable scope and depth. Covering the period from 1886 to 1940, Lesley Erickson uses records from local courts, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the North West Mounted Police...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 174-75
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The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive, Vancouver, to 1956
On the morning of April 8, 1949, a nattily-dressed crook named Robert Harrison visited the Bank of Commerce at the corner of First Avenue and Commercial Drive and relieved it of $3,000. Armed with a...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 140-1
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A Thoroughly Wicked Woman: Murder, Perjury & Trial by Newspaper
Betty Keller has a fascination with the early social history of Vancouver that dates back at least to 1986 when she published On the Shady Side, her lively study of crooks and cops in the...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 153-54
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The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History
Sharron Simpson’s The Kelowna Story offers her clear intention of providing for the people of Kelowna, most of whom are recent arrivals, “a collective memory” (9) about the origin and development of their community. Overall,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 132-33
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From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919
While the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War unfolds with little or no fanfare, it is appropriate to consider an even more forgotten Canadian military adventure: the Canadian Siberian Expedition to the Russian port...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
Colonists seldom embarked alone to new continents, and so the act of “settling” was often the act of creating a “settlement.” Penelope Edmonds’s Urbanizing Frontiers reminds us that the interface between settler and...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 130-31
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Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada
I am particularly interested in this volume, having been born in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 1938 and having a father who was treasurer of a district association. He was a shirt tailor, and I remember in...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 158-161
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Peter O’Reilly: The Rise of a Reluctant Immigrant
Peter O’Reilly, third son of a landed Anglo-Irish family with estates in County Meath (Ireland) and Lancashire (England), immigrated to Vancouver Island early in 1859. He was thirty-two years of age and had served...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 156-157
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A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
A Thousand Dreams is a very thorough, if partisan, overview of the events in the Downtown Eastside (DES) over the last twenty years. The partisan aspect is due to the overwhelming voice of Larry Campbell...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 161-162
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Missing Women, Missing News: Covering Crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
In a publication coincident with the launch of the inquiry into the police investigation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, David Hugill’s Missing Women, Missing News poses a vital and timely challenge to common-sense frames...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 181-183
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Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Kristin R. Good, a political scientist, accomplished two main objectives in this book: (1) investigating how and why municipalities responded to dramatic changes in their ethno-cultural composition and (2) evaluating her findings about municipal multicultural...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 177-179
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Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie
Every province and state seems to have spawned its own popular literature about those who enforce the law and those who run afoul of it. British Columbia is no exception, but most popular histories of...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 185-186
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Canada’s Rights Revolution, Social Movements and Social Change
I am not as confident as is Dominique Clément that “the vast majority of Canadians instinctively see human rights as an inherent good” (9). It might be true that most of us value civil liberties, at...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 130-2
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The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
William Turkel grew up in central British Columbia; studied linguistics and psychology before undertaking doctoral studies in history, anthropology, and the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and now teaches...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 134-6
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Waste Heritage
The protagonist of Irene Baird’s Depression-era novel Waste Heritage is Matt Striker, a twenty-three-year-old transient from Saskatchewan. A veteran of the Regina Riot in 1935, which ended the On-to-Ottawa trek, Matt arrives in Vancouver by...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 141-2
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Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade
Prostitution is a complex and politically charged issue that defies simple analysis. Daniel Francis’s new book documents attempts to regulate the sex industry in Vancouver, a city where the subject has occupied a central place...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 198-9
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Myra’s Men: Building the Kettle Valley Railway, Myra Canyon to Penticton
In August 2003, the Okanagan Mountain Park fire southeast of Kelowna destroyed or damaged the Myra Canyon trestles, eighteen railroad structures, and the roadbed between them. This 5.5-mile (8.9-km) elevated path around a mountainous amphitheatre...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 200-1
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Negotiating Buck Naked: Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution
No one knows better than Gregory Cran the sometimes baffling intricacies of the relationship among the various groups of Doukhobors and between them and the mainstream community in British Columbia. Between 1979 and 1987, he...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 121-3
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Stella: Unrepentant Madam
Linda Eversole’s biography of Victoria madam Stella Carroll (1872-1946) is listed on the book cover as fitting into two genres: “creative non-fiction” and “history.” It’s an interesting division for an interesting book. Having spent more...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 107-9
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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...