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The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity and Quality of Life in Western Canada
The Last Best West is an eclectic collection of chapters based loosely on the meaning and mythology of the advertising slogan used by the Canadian government around the turn of the twentieth century to attract...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 110-2
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Beyond the Chilcotin: On the Home Ranch with Pan Phillips
Beyond the Chilcotin is a collection of stories about ranch life in a remote part of west-central British Columbia. Written by Diana Philips, whose father Pan Philips first came to the Chilcotin plateau in the...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 113-4
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One Native Life
For much of his life, Richard Wagamese has searched for a sense of belonging and struggled to find his identity as an indigenous person living in Canada. In One Native Life, Wagamese shares an intimate...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 208-9
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Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place
In the two generations since the first postmodern attempts to create a pan-cultural literature of place on the Pacific Coast, the context of landscape writing in British Columbia has been radically transformed. The environmental movement...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 210-12
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The Law of the Land: The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
In recent years both imperial historians and colonial legal historians have begun turning their attention to the networks at play within the British Empire and the transmission of information and ideas within the imperial system.[1]...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 143-5
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Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tze-whit-zen Village
Breaking Ground, by journalist Lynda Mapes, is a compelling, well told story of a Coast Salish tribe in Washington State – the Lower Elwha – and its fraught relations with the settler community that grew...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 115-116
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Fort St. James and New Caledonia: Where British Columbia Began
Many residents of British Columbia are probably unaware that the settler history of the province began not in the Fraser Valley but in New Caledonia, the north-central interior, a result not of the explorations of...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 107-8
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The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
William Turkel grew up in central British Columbia; studied linguistics and psychology before undertaking doctoral studies in history, anthropology, and the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and now teaches...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 134-6
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Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849- 1925
Landing Native Fisheries is an important contribution to the history of fisheries and a good companion to Harris’ Fish, Law, and Colonialism (2001). This is a serious study that demonstrates conclusively that dispossession of Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 138-40
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Stranger Wycott’s Place: Stories from the Cariboo-Chilcotin
John Schreiber’s book reminds us that British Columbia’s landscape is defined and haunted by stories from the colonial past. As a self-proclaimed “ragamuffin out of the bush” (12), Schreiber’s narrative takes the unconventional form of...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 146-7
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Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality
Is Cree a sexy language? Do indigenous people have less pubic hair than settler people? How are love, sex, and decolonization intimately related? These questions, and many more, are examined by the wide selection of...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 207-8
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Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
This is an interesting and provocative book that will motivate readers to rethink the role of the state in directing and managing a multicultural society. Exalted Subjects is divided into a number of sections labelled...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 135-137
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
Spanish activity along the Pacific Northwest Coast from 1774 to 1793 has attracted a moderate amount of scholarly attention, including monographs by Warren Cook, Donald Cutter, and John Kendrick, as well as the publication, often...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 148-9
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Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Australia is one of the few countries of the world where academics and politicians often debate interpretations of their country’s history in the national media. They focus on the story of Aborigine-settler relations. Even the...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
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In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada
The issue of voice, its recuperation and responsible representation, has long ranked among Aboriginal history’s central concerns. In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada shares this commitment. Refuting...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 140-2
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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
REGULATING LIVES adds to a rapidly growing body of work in Canadian legal history and in the history of moral regulation. The collection should be of great interest to historians of the family, gender, race...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 203-4
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First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Alan Twigg is the publisher of BC BookWorld, which plays an important role in the literary life of British Columbia, and the author of eight previous books, chiefly on literature and politics. First Invaders is...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 126-8
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Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891
One of the most unexpected conse quences of the systematic social history undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s was a profound rethinking of its initial focus on industrialization and urbanization as the central features of...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 106-7
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Pioneer Jews of British Columbia
Pioneer Jews of British Columbia is a compilation of articles that first appeared in two journals, Western States Jewish History and The Scribe, dealing with Jewish settlement in British Columbia in the nineteenth and early...