Index

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...

Review by Patricia E. Roy

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 155-156

Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada

This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...

Review by John O’Brian

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76

Vancouver Blue: A Life Against Crime

Wayne Cope joined the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in 1975, the fulfillment of a childhood dream to be a police officer. Like most police memoirs, Cope’s is filled with anecdotal stories, some humorous and some...

Review by Bonnie Reilly Schmidt

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 184-85

Tenant Organizing and the Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, 1968–75

By Paul S. Jon

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 31-58

housing real estate legislation politics

Drawn to Sea: Paintbrush to Chainsaw: Carving out a life on BC’s Rugged Raincoast.

Born Out of This

Review by Molly Clarkson

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Pages 182-83

American Exiles beyond the Politics of the Draft: Nudity, Feminism, and Third World Decolonization in Vancouver, 1968-71

By Henry John

BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 33-56

debating dissent: the Sixties feminism hippies women Americans

Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii

In Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii, Louise Takeda challenges the dominant epistemological perspective on the politics of BC resource management in order to “[further] political and social justice” and “give back”...

Review by James Davey

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51

Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest

Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

Review by Max Ritts

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Pages 148-150

Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860–1871

By Alice Gorton

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 273-299

gold rush Identities race and racism sexuality Barkerville

“Metis:” Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood

In “Métis,” Chris Andersen highlights the widespread marginalization of Métis peoples by taking to task the continued racialization of the term “Métis.” Systematically unpacking the ways in which the word “Métis” has been misrecognized and...

Review by Gabrielle Legault

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 116-17

Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

Xweliqwiya is the name carried by Rena Point Bolton among the Steqó:ye Wolf People. It marks an indelible position in the Xwélmexw (Stó:lō) world, relating her to a particular geography, linking her to mythological narratives,...

Review by Leslie Robertson

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 156-57

A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945

Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

Review by Stacey J. Barker

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Pages 134-35

Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner

Unbreakable the Ujjal Dosanjh Story

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

Review by Patricia E. Roy

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Pages 187-89

Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut

Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut is the collaborative effort of a prize-winning photographer (Nancy Bleck), a writer (Katherine Dodds), and a Squamish Nation chief (Bill Williams). The 175-page coffee-table book documents the story of how a...

Review by Dorothy Kennedy

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 155-56

Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia

Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...

Review by Duff Sutherland

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77

Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada

Forests, long of economic and socio-cultural importance to both Aboriginal peoples and settlers in Canada, have also been sites of contention between these groups, reflected in blockades, court action, and state policies intended to address...

Review by Brian Egan

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 184-85

Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education

This collection of essays is edited by Sara Burke, a historian, and Patrick Milewski, a sociologist and former elementary school teacher, at Laurentian University. The title, Schooling in Transition, reflects the editors’ belief that public...

Review by Patrick A. Dunae

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 165-67

Class and Environmental Justice Politics in the Demolition of Natal and Michel, 1964-78

By Tom Langford

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 31-58

mining city planning Kootenay District Natal Michel

The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s-1970s

Water Without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters

The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty

Review by Meg Stanley

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Pages 214-17

Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics

I vividly remember when I first heard the name “Svend Robinson.” I was attending the wedding of a distant cousin I had never met before and have not seen since. At the reception, in Burnaby,...

Review by Joseph Tilley

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 223-25

We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us: Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia

We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us is an important and long overdue book about contemporary First Nations’ experiences in British Columbia. Using narrative interviews with almost two dozen First Nations peoples, Katherine Palmer...

Review by Sarah Nickel

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 226-27

Bittersweet Memories: Narratives of Japanese Canadian Children’s Experiences before the Second World War and the Politics of Redress

By Daniel Lachapelle Lemire

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 71-104

education military history children japanese people Vancouver

This Day in Vancouver

       There are some stories about Vancouver that bear retelling. Take the tale of Theodore Ludgate, an American capitalist in the lumber trade who arrived in the city around 1899 with a lease for the...

Review by John Belshaw

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 206-09

Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments

This book is a must-read for people interested in Canadian history, gender, and electoral politics in Canada. I cannot say enough about Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments, which includes chapters written by...

Review by Janni Aragon

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 231-32