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Outside In: A Political Memoir
Outside In can be read and enjoyed as a straightforward memoir of Libby Davies’ remarkable career as an activist and elected official. It traces her path from her early days working for housing justice in Vancouver’s...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 117-118
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The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC
To borrow an old joke, institutional histories can often be the sofa beds of historical writing. Neither good as a sofa nor as a bed, institutional histories can often find themselves trapped between academic and...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 224-225
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Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Sarah Nickel’s Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is a significant contribution, not only to the history of Indigenous affairs in British Columbia, but to Indigenous history as a...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 216-218
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The Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
Veronica Strong-Boag is one of Canada’s most distinguished women’s historians. One of the major themes of her publishing career has been Canadian women’s struggle for the vote. Strong-Boag’s expertise in the field is very much...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 118-119
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On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
On The Line is an account of BC trade unions by the BC Labour Heritage Centre (an offshoot of the BC Federation of Labour) written by retired Vancouver Sun labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh. In a well-illustrated...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 205-206
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Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Ten years and many miles separated two distinct, yet in some ways similar, gold rushes. In 1848, rumors of gold at Sutter’s Mill sparked a process that would lure roughly 265,000 people to California, a...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 157-158
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Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
In Sailing with Vancouver, the late maritime writer Sam McKinney follows the path of Capt. George Vancouver’s 1792 expedition through the Pacific Northwest’s inland waters. Part saltwater travelogue, part historical reflection, McKinney uses the region’s...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 151-153
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A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
If this is a queer love story between Jane Rule, the legendary lesbian novelist of Galiano Island, and Rick Bébout, a long-time collective member of The Body Politic in Toronto, it should really be considered a...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 162-163
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Reconsidering Confederation: Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999
A dynamic collection of essays, Reconsidering Confederationsets out to “provide a primer for Canadians who want to better understand similarities and differences between provinces, regions, and peoples” (13). Much more than a basic outline of...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 160-161
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Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada
Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada is a fold-out display-ready wall map of Canada, hypsometrically tinted to highlight the physiographic landscape of the northern portion of North America, and labeled entirely and only in...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 179-180
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Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest
The authors of Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest attempt to expand our understanding of the development of two nations, and a border between them, from a mostly political story...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 194-195
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Fernie at War 1914-1919
Wayne Norton provides a fascinating story of a British Columbia resource town navigating its way through the tribulations of the Great War. In so doing, he adds to the small but growing body of works that...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 161-162
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The Miracle Mile: Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
The Miracle Mile written by Jason Beck, the curator at the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, is a masterfully constructed narrative of the first truly international event in British Columbia sport history. The 1954...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 154-155
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The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in BC
This is one of those rare collections that focusses on a recent significant political transition. In doing so Jason Lacharite and Tracy Summerville have produced a needed and worthwhile book. For those not cognizant of recent...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 193-194
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Witness to Loss
Witness to Loss is a multi-authored study of wartime Japanese Canadian confinement that draws from the memoirs of Kishizo Kimura, a Japanese-born man who immigrated to Canada in 1911. Kimura had an important impact on the...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 163-164
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From Left to Right: Maternalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada
In popular imagining, as World War II ended Canadian women were ushered back into their domestic, homemaking lives and their political voices were silenced until second-wave feminism emerged in the sixties. In the book, From Left...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 157-158
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