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City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties
Lawrence Aronsen’s handsomely-illustrated City of Love and Revolution examines a period of Vancouver’s history that still resonates. The latest contribution to a growing literature on the Sixties in Canada, the book also contributes to contemporary...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 150
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The Box
Following the reissue of George Bowering’s Burning Water in 2007 and Shoot! in 2008, New Star continues its dedication to local authors with the publication of Bowering’s The Box in 2009. Promoted as a “series...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 146-7
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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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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 135-136
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver: Major James Skitt Matthews
The publication of Daphne Sleigh’s biography of James Matthews coincides with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the City of Vancouver Archives, which he founded. The work is remarkable for being the first book-length biography of a...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 142-143
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Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
Resilience. This is a word that, for me, conjures up a feeling of hard times met with bald-faced determination to get through whatever comes one’s way. Coasts under Stress brings this idea to life through...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 164-6
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Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson
Like Sheila Watson’s seminal – and quintessentially British Columbian – novel, The Double Hook, F.T. Flahiff’s book takes both its title and its epigraph from a particularly dramatic and thematically relevant moment in its text....
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 100-1
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Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University
When Simon Fraser University (SFU) opened in the fall of 1965, the registrar locked himself in his office and refused to answer the phone. A group of department heads, who later entered the office, found...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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Starbuck Valley Winter
YOU WON’T FIND many kids like Don Morgan these days. The plucky protagonist of this reissued children’s novel is a sixteen-year-old who hunts avidly, builds a waterwheel-driven pump to supply the farmhouse with water, and dreams of...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 139-41
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Too Small to See, Too Big to Ignore: Child Health and Well-being
AS THE MOST RECENT Statistics Canada reports tell us, poverty continues to stalk British Columbia’s youngest citizens. Their distress, with outcomes measured pitilessly in shortfalls in nutrition, education, and health, is directly associated with the...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 190-2
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‘Call Me Hank’: A Sto:lo Man’s Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old
Old loggers love to tell stories, but few find their way onto paper. We are fortunate indeed, then, that in 1969 linguist Wyn Roberts visited Henry Pennier at his home near Mission and asked the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 150-2
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Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) Curator of Western Subarctic Ethnology, has produced a lavishly illustrated book, compelling for its quality of images, clarity of writing, and elegance of design. Seventy-one rarely published and...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 118-20
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Shoot!
George Bowering’s Shoot!, originally published in 1994, is based on the historical account of the murder of officer Johnny Ussher by the McLean Gang. Ostensibly, Shoot! is a western novel that revolves around the youthful...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 147
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Potlatch
George Clutesi is a member of the Tse-shaht band of the Nootka Tribe of Vancouver Island. As a child he was sent to a church-operated residential school where he recalls that he was taught that...