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Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier
THE SUBTITLE of this biography has several meanings. Constance Lindsay Skinner (1877-1939) lived on a variety of frontiers – geographical, social, literary, and imaginative. Skinner occupies a minor place in the canon of American literature...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 106-7
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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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The British Columbia Atlas of Child Development
It is not surprising that many ad vocates of social justice for marginalized children and their families in British Columbia, Canada, and beyond eventually suffer professional and personal “burn-out.” Work in this vein has been...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 118-21
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With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
We might as well name the elephant in the room. The editors did. The book’s first sentence, back cover, and promotional material all imply a fear that it will be received as “an apologist text”...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 116-8
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Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History
A primary goal of feminist scholarship and activism is to interrupt assumed notions about gender and to intervene in the naturalization of processes that perpetuate women’s op pression and subordination in patri archal societies. Contemporary...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America
I must declare an “interest” in this book. Its pictorial dimension consists of reproductions of superb sepia prints made from original glass negatives sold to the Capital Group Foundation by James Graybill, grandson of their...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 113-5
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Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century
This long-awaited book emerged from a May 2000 conference entitled “The Nikkei Experiences in the Pacific Northwest.” The conference was organized by the Department of History at the University of Washington (UW) in conjunction with...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 130-2
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 132 Winter 2001-2002 | Page(s) 103-105
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Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration
Understanding immigration is central to understanding Canadian working-class history and the fortunes of the Canadian labour movement. This is the case not just because immigration stocked, and restocked, the labour market but also because workers...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 145-7
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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...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
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Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
The publication of Xiaoping Li’s Voices Rising is a rare literary event, a cause for celebration. Through its analysis of the social and cultural movements of Asian Canada, especially in Vancouver and Toronto, her work...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 139-41
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Philip Timm’s Vancouver: 1900-1910
I first met Fred Thirkell in the late 1970s when I ran an antique store in North Vancouver. Fred was a postcard collector, and we played the familiar dance between buyer and seller in the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 154-6
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‘Call Me Hank’: A Sto:lo Man’s Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old
Old loggers love to tell stories, but few find their way onto paper. We are fortunate indeed, then, that in 1969 linguist Wyn Roberts visited Henry Pennier at his home near Mission and asked the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 150-2
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National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
Leslie Dawn makes an ambitious contribution to a hotly debated topic of Canadian cultural history – the role of the visual arts in the formation of the image of a modern Canadian nation. The title’s...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 179-83
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Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 124, Winter 1999
BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 124-5
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The Silent Debate: Asian Immigration and Racism in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 127, Autumn 2000
BC Studies no. 127 Autumn 2000 | Page(s) 144-6
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Shoot!
George Bowering’s Shoot!, originally published in 1994, is based on the historical account of the murder of officer Johnny Ussher by the McLean Gang. Ostensibly, Shoot! is a western novel that revolves around the youthful...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 147
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In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing
The twelfth and most recent volume in NeWest Press’s Writer as Critic series, Roy Miki’s In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing, like others in the series, approaches writing as praxical intervention. Beginning with...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 154-155
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