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Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell
Frank Swannell was a distinguished BC land surveyor whose career in the province extended from 1899, when he came west after completing a two-year course in mining engineering at the School of Practical Science at...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 131-2
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
THE NATURE OF GOLD is in several ways a path-breaking work since, although there is a large literature on Yukon environment, there has been very little written on the environmental history of the Territory, and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 126-8
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Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
IT WAS WITH SOME excitement and a little trepidation that I agreed to review Bill Miller’s book. First of all, my father, George Ball, was a Yukon Telegraph Line operator in the early years; and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
River of Memory is a snapshot of the Columbia River prior to the massive human manipulation of the region. Layman argues that, when we understand the river in its natural state prior to 1933, we...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 198-200
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: Douglas Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
More than an exhibition catalogue but every bit that as well, Jack Nisbet’s Mapmaker’s Eye takes its reader farther into Anglo-Welsh-Canadian explorer David Thompson’s five years (1808-12) on the Pacific Slope than has any previous...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 183-6
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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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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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Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
IN ORGANIZING this collection of papers on late-period Northwest Coast archaeology, R.G. Matson, in his introduction to this edited volume, proposes to make Northwest Coast archaeology more visible in the literature alongside the prominent ethnographic...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 136-9
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Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II
When author Sylvia Crooks was a three-year-old growing up in Nelson, a young man named Maurice Latornell taught her how to skate. In 1944, Latornell died during a bombing mission over Berlin. For Crooks, Latornell’s...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 105-6
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Blue Valley: An Ecological Memoir
Luanne Armstrong is a walker. Walking the land where her ancestors farmed and where she has lived, walking the cities where she and her children have spent time, walking by rivers and lakes and mountains...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 191-3
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Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail: Exploring the Route of the Klondike Cattle Drives
Although the Chilkoot Trail is the most famous trail to the Klondike, there were a wide variety of other routes that gold seekers used to reach the interior of the Yukon between 1896 and 1900....
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 142-143
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Tse-loh-ne (The People at the End of the Rocks): Journey Down the Davie Trail
Keith Billington has had a long career as a nurse in British Columbia and the Yukon as well as being Band Manager for the Fort Ware Sekani/Kaska band (later known as Kwadacha Nation). The first part...