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Images from the Likeness House
At the start of Images from the Likeness House, Dan Savard tells us why the photographs he presents of Aboriginal people are important. Put succinctly, it is because of their past and continuing influence on...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 127-8
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The Quadra Story: A History of Quadra Island
Jeanette Taylor’s history of Quadra Island is a welcome addition to Harbour Publishing’s growing collection of Coast histories. It draws on Taylor’s profound local knowledge of the northern strait and complements her histories of Campbell...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 186-187
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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Telling the story of the timber wars in the national forests of the Pacific Northwest is a task that has moved from journalism to history, William Dietrich suggests in this 2010 edition of The Final...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 171-173
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Up Chute Creek: An Okanagan Idyll
In the early 1970s, Melody Hessing and her husband Jay Lewis bought acreage in the south Okanagan near Naramata. They called their property the Granite Farm. They were idealists, hoping to build a house and...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 114-5
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Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia
Evergreen Playland is the dvd version of the movie of the same name that was part of the exhibition “Free Spirits: Stories of You, Me and BC,” held at the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 203-5
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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
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States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
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Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Authentic Indians examines the pressure exerted on a minority to conform to an ideal that the majority defined by another ideal – in short, two abstractions played off one another. Paige Raibmon calls this a...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 113-6
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British Columbia, The Pacific Province: Geographical Essays
UNTIL RECENTLY, geographers looking for a reasonably comprehensive, but decidedly current, introductory text or compilation of essays having a regional and/or thematic focus on the geography of British Columbia had little with which to work....
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 201-3
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A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound
Clayoquot Sound. Home of the Nu-Chah-Nuulth First Nation for thousands of years. Home of loggers and fishers who have contributed to a global market for wood and fish products for decades. Home to scenic fjords,...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 120-3
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Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970
In this interesting book, Michael Dawson studies the rise of a tourist economy in British Columbia over the course of the twentieth century. At the heart of the story are loosely related groups of tourist...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 103-5
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The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
THIS LONG-AWAITED BOOK argues that the Slocan Valley, through its often dramatic history, is a reflection of the region and its connection with events in British Columbia and Canada. Not so much a local history,...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 134-5
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The Comox Valley: Courtnay, Comox, Cumberland, and Area
In the publisher’s promotional sheet, this attractive book is described as “an intimate portrait of an incredibly beautiful and special place.” This sense of affection for the region comes across strongly in the course of...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 195-7
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The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on
WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES dancers yearn to sing or painters to write? Why are academics fundamentally unhappy within their disciplines? Inside each academician there seems to be an alter ego struggling to get out....
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 187-8
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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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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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Red Dog, Red Dog
Due to the strong tourism and leisure economy of British Columbia, the Okanagan Valley has become primarily associated with orchards, beaches, and, most recently, award-winning vineyards – in short, the Okanagan Valley is synonymous with...