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Steel Rails and Iron Men: A Pictorial History of the Kettle Valley Railway
THE DECISION of Whitecap Books to publish the first paperback edition of Steel Rails &Iron Men is appropriate and timely. Since this book appeared in cloth in 1990, the Kettle Valley Railway (the KV) has...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 134-6
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Sutebusuton: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast
MITSUO YESAKI was born in Steveston, known to its early Japanese-Canadian residents as Sutebusuton. He spent his early childhood there until the expulsion of Japanese Canadians from the West Coast in 1942. He is a...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 133-4
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941
THIS IS AN AMBITIOUS bookthat aims to “recontextualize, if not challenge” (9) several standard historical narratives: of the American West, of Asian American settlement, and of Filipino experiences in the United States in the early...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 130-1
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Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects & Journeys
NUU-CHAH-NULTH VOICES, Histories, Objects &Journeys is an anthology produced to complement Out of the Mist: HuupuKwanum—Tupaat, Treasure of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs, an exhibition mounted in April 2000 by the Royal British Columbia Museum in conjunction with...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 123-4
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Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen
JEAN BARMAN’S Soujourning Sisters is an important book that merits a wide audience, consisting of both those interested specifically in British Columbia and those interested in Canadian history writ large. It recasts the notion of...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 105-6
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Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
THE POPULARITY OF WILDLIFE, as idea and as icon, is near universal, but the presence ofwildlife in our yards, homes, and neighbourhoods provokes reactions as diverse as the species that we encounter and the places...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 317-8
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Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities
MAUREEN REED’S BOOK, Taking Stands: Geàder and the Sustainability of Rural Communities, tackles a crucial but almost systematically neglected tangle of issues embedded in the conflicts over forestry in BC: those emerging from and through...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 315-7
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Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
IN CIRCLES WHERE SALMON management gets debated, the Fraser River looms large because it helps drive a neat syllogism, which goes something like this: Columbia River runs imploded because American scientists supported a massive dam-building...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 297-9
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E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose
IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to this collection of poetry and prose by E. Pauline Johnson, the editors, Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag, reference their previous biography Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E....
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 118-21
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A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
This collection explores many of the controversial issues surrounding fish farming practices in British Columbia. In five separate essays, the authors illustrate the importance of the precautionary principle in experimenting with new chemicals and processes...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 121-3
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Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu
As the title suggests, Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady is an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic as it swept through Vancouver and ran into preparations made for it by the city’s first full-time...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 129-31
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Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality: A Vital Link
Canadian Aboriginal Art And Spirituality: A Vital Link acknowledges right from the start that Aboriginal art forms in Canada have historically been misinterpreted as mere “craft” and that the all-important spiritual foundations of such art...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 114-5
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Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past
This is a great time to be writing Aboriginal history. A decade of productive interplay between postcolonial studies, feminist analysis, and new methods of research has opened new interpretive pathways to historians of First Nations....
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 102-4
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Arthur Erickson: Critical Works
No postwar Canadian architect is as widely known as is Arthur Erickson. Some commentators refer to him as an architectural star and a Canadian icon. Still others argue that, while many in this country revere...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 124-6
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Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective
This is a book that I will use in two of my university courses: one on Canadian political economy and the other on labour policy. It is well researched, deals with issues that have immediate...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 119-21
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Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
A book of this kind – large and sumptuous, rich with colour photo graphs of historical and more recent Haida art from the Northwest Coast, and featuring a dozen essays by Haida and non-Native contributors...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 117-9
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Sharks of the Pacific Northwest: Including Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
Humans have instigated the generalized obliteration of large predators for centuries. The severe, routinely fatal penalty that sharks have paid appears to result in large part from social perspectives founded in fear and ignorance. From...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 190-1
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Faces in the Forest: First Nations Art Created on Living Trees
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 129-31
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Glyphs and Gallows: The Rock Art of Clo-oose and the Wreck of the John Bright
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 130, Summer 2001
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 117-8
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Trading Identities: The Souvenir of Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700- 1900
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 132, Winter 2001
BC Studies no. 132 Winter 2001-2002 | Page(s) 95-8
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People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
This is the most important book now available on children and public policy in British Columbia. Its contributions by engaged and thoughtful scholar-advocates should be required reading for all Canadians interested in the welfare of...