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The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the BC Coast
Promoting an upcoming reading of Don Pepper’s A Life on the Water at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Harbour Publishing exclaims: “Here, finally, is a book about commercial salmon fishing through the eyes of a commercial...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 150-51
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The Inverted Pyramid
In 2011, the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia celebrated Vancouver’s 125th anniversary with the Vancouver Legacy Book Collection, reissuing ten books that it deemed best representative of British Columbia’s social and literary history....
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 232-234
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Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror
In Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, Daniel Francis provides an overview of the response of the Canadian state and elite to the postwar labour revolt. Although written for...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 126-28
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A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur
Selected as one of ten Vancouver books reprinted to celebrate the city’s 125th anniversary, A Hard Man to Beat is perhaps even more important now than when it was first published. Then, Bill White’s lively...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 191-93
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Canada’s Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
Canada’s Road to the Pacific War examines the role of intelligence in Canadian strategic planning during the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Drawing on archival resources in Canada, Britain, and the United...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 184-86
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Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920
It took a mountain of labour to write this book, but the result is a molehill of meaningful history. This is the second volume of Ian McKay’s planned multi-volume history of the left in Canada,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 122-127
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Myra’s Men: Building the Kettle Valley Railway, Myra Canyon to Penticton
In August 2003, the Okanagan Mountain Park fire southeast of Kelowna destroyed or damaged the Myra Canyon trestles, eighteen railroad structures, and the roadbed between them. This 5.5-mile (8.9-km) elevated path around a mountainous amphitheatre...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 200-1
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Land, Man, and the Law
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 24, Winter 1974/75
BC Studies no. 24 Winter 1974 | Page(s) 98-101
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Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 232-4
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Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada’s Pacific Coast Fisheries
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 108, Winter 1995/96
BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 94-9
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Cork Lines and Canning Lines: The Glory Years of Fishing on the West Coast
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 108, Winter 1995/96
BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 105-6
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Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 201-4
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Senewelets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 214-7
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Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 227-8
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Three Men and a Forester
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 228-31
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Landscape Evaluation: Approaches and Applications
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 231-2
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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
This book is a self-confessed labour of love, and it took the authors twenty-five years working in their spare time to complete it. Beautifully produced and reasonably priced, it has over 1,700 original colour photographs...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 103-4
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Danger, Death and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902-28
The Crowsnest Pass coal-mining communities serve as the backdrop for Karen Buckley’s study of danger, death, and disaster. Her objective is to examine personal and community responses to death and to “gain a clearer understanding...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 129-31
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Watara- Dori (Birds of Passage)
WATARA-DORI (Birds of Passage) is a biographical fiction of a half-year period (24 June 1915 to 1 January 1916) in the life of a Japanese-Canadian fisher. Mitsuo Yesaki has a thorough knowledge of the Pacific coast fisheries,...