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Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade
Prostitution is a complex and politically charged issue that defies simple analysis. Daniel Francis’s new book documents attempts to regulate the sex industry in Vancouver, a city where the subject has occupied a central place...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 198-9
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Trade Liberalization and a Regional Economy
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 12, Winter 1971
BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972 | Page(s) 79-84
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Old Trials and New Directions: Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 50, Summer 1981
BC Studies no. 50 Summer 1981 | Page(s) 57-60
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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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Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 60, Winter 1983
BC Studies no. 60 Winter 1983-1984 | Page(s) 78-80
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Dark Storm Moving West
“The trouble with narrative – telling stories, making histories,” Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening says, “is that it is so easy, but thinking about it is so hard” (Performances, 1996). I suspect Barbara Belyea would agree,...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 126-8
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The Chinese Connection, Getting Plugged In To Pacific Rim Real Estate, Trade, and Capital Markets
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 73, Spring 1987
BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 69-71
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The Subarctic Indians and the Fur Trade 1680-1860
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 76, Winter 1987/88
BC Studies no. 76 Winter 1987-1988 | Page(s) 86-8
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The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and Discoveries to 1812
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 98, Summer 1993
BC Studies no. 98 Summer 1993 | Page(s) 88-91
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‘Boston Men’ on the Northwest Coast: The American Maritime Fur Trade, 1788-1844
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 123, Autumn 1999
BC Studies no. 123 Autumn 1999 | Page(s) 94-5
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Hail, Columbia: Robert Gray, John Kendrick, and the Pacific Fur Trade
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 109, Spring 1996
BC Studies no. 109 Spring 1996 | Page(s) 87-9
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From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919
While the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War unfolds with little or no fanfare, it is appropriate to consider an even more forgotten Canadian military adventure: the Canadian Siberian Expedition to the Russian port...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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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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L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
MANY NORTH AMERICAN cities have had great civic leaders. Fiorello La Guardia, New York’s Depression-era mayor, is considered the father of modern New York; Metro chair Fred Gardiner put his distinctive imprint on Toronto in the...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 128-30
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Making Wawa: The Genesis of Chinook Jargon
It is difficult to research and write about the history of British Columbia without coming across snippets of Chinook Jargon. Within living memory, it was the lingua franca in coastal logging camps and salmon canneries,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 109-10
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific North West Coast
In 1900, after almost fifty years of assiduously keeping a daily diary, Tsimshian leader and Christian, Arthur Wellington Clah, feared he was losing his sight. “But my Lord Jesus Christ push my heart to write...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 225-228
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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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The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
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Undelievered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
In Undelivered Letters, editors Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss provide a voice for those North American fur trade people usually thought to be voiceless. This publication of over 200 undelivered letters to men who...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 129-30
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Nature and Human Societies: Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History
In the three decades since environmental history burst onto the academic scene in the United States in the early 1970s, the field experienced impressive growth among American scholars and internationally in arenas such as South...