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Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs
Alison Bain, an associate professor of geography at York University, begins Creative Margins with David Gordon and Mark Janzen’s assertion that “Canada is a suburban nation (3),” noting that our population, like that of the...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 215-216
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Local Self-Government and the Right to the City
Warren Magnusson’s reputation is secure as one of Canada’s leading political theorists, and Local Self-Government and the Right to the City offers us what he says is “probably… [his] last book” (viii). As such, it...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 207-210
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Tellings from Our Elders: Lushootseed syəyəhub, Volume 1: Snohomish Texts as told by Martha Williams Lamont, Elizabeth Krise, Edward Sam, and Agnes Jules James
Skagit Valley as told by Susie Sampson Peter, Dora Solomon, Mary Sampson Willup, Harry Moses, Louise Anderson, Martin Sampson, Dewey Mitchell, and Alice Williams
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Pages 218-221
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The Business of Power: Hydroelectricity in Southeastern British Columbia, 1897-1997
When Jeremy Mouat’s The Business of Power first came out in 1997, both Cominco and West Kootenay Power and Light, the main corporate subjects of Mouat’s book (the latter of which commissioned it), had recently...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 206-207
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The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest
Audrey DeLella Benedict and Joseph Gaydos’s book about the Salish Sea, like Beamish and McFarlane’s recent tome on the Strait of Georgia (or North Salish Sea), The Sea Among Us, is a gorgeously illustrated and...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 205-206
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The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd
Peter Busby’s The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd is the eighth and latest book in the Unheralded Artists Series presented by Mother Tongue Publishing. The series as a whole makes a significant contribution to...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 211-212
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Sonia: The Life of Bohemian, Rancher and Artist Sonia Cornwall, 1919-2006
Challenged to name women artists of British Columbia of the twentieth century, most people would stop at Emily Carr. While the list of both First Nations and settler women artists of British Columbia is impressively...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 213-214
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In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum
In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the Burke Museum’s contemporary Northwest Coast art collection. The writers, four academics and four artists, all have strong ties to this Seattle museum, and the artists featured here...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 216-217
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Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst
Poet Robert Bringhurst has been just on the periphery of my attention for many years, and it seems I’ve been in good company. Although he has made a name for himself in some circles (he...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 210-211
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The Salmon People
When The Salmon People was first published in 1967, commercial salmon fishing still sustained many coastal communities, although as Hugh McKervill pointed out then, there were plenty of signs that the resource was threatened. In...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 200-201
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Forest$ustainability: A Rumination on the Once and Future Forests of British Columbia, Provoked by Five Books and a Screenplay 
Ground-Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC’s North Coast
Big Trees Saved and Other Feats: e Story of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society
Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees and Forest Practices
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 115-131
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The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to Present
In the Power of Feasts, Hayden, an SFU archaeologist, provides a “theoretical synthesis” of the history of feasting, explains the theory of its influence on human societies over time, and argues that feasting contributed to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 136-137
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A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
There is an alternative out there to the globalized world of agribusiness, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and processed packaged food, one based on harvesting and using local, especially wild, foods and re-weaving them into our...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 197-200
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They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
Bev Sellars’s bestselling memoir, They Called Me Number One, is a personal account of an important part of the colonial history of British Columbia told from a specific region in the province (Cariboo) and from...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 221-222
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Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age of Travel
The Canadian Pacific Railway’s travel literature boasts marvellous scenery, adventure, and extravagance. “You shall see mighty rivers, vast forest, boundless plains, stupendous mountains and wonders innumerable, and you shall see in all in comfort, nay...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 139-140
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Liberal Hearts and Coronets: The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens
Veronica Strong-Boag announces at the outset of her latest book that “Lords and ladies are rarely in fashion for critical scholars or democratic activists. This is unfortunate” (3). Thankfully she decided to take on Ishbel...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 140-141
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Conrad Kain: Letters from a Wandering Mountain Guide, 1906-1933
Few figures in the history of western Canadian mountaineering are held in such high regard as Conrad Kain. Arriving in Banff in 1909 to work for the young Alpine Club of Canada (ACC), Kain came...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 143-145
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Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District
Those who would wish to time-travel to the Comox Valley of the First World War era need only to walk the streets of today’s Courtenay downtown core. There they will encounter numerous large publicly-displayed photographs...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 145-146
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Canadian State Trials, Volume IV
The fourth volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials is a critical analysis of the powers, both theoretical and practical, of Canada’s judiciary and political executive, and how Canadian state officials used such...