Index
Results (2435)
Review
Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
Xweliqwiya is the name carried by Rena Point Bolton among the Steqó:ye Wolf People. It marks an indelible position in the Xwélmexw (Stó:lō) world, relating her to a particular geography, linking her to mythological narratives,...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 156-57
Review
Review
From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
This book tells the story of the many roles of basketry in the lives of the First Peoples of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and of the diverse styles and materials used by the weavers, mainly women....
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 157-58
Review
Written as I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms taʔaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Sliammon elder Elsie Paul’s grandmother told her in the 1930s that knowing how to harvest food, cook, and raise children was all that a good woman really needed. It was a view said to be...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 113-14
Review
Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
With Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan hearkens back to the political youth movements that went to the barricades, the conferences, and the picket lines in the 1960s, and in the process historicizes the events and people...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 178-79
Review
No One to Tell: Breaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP
Like all new recruits graduating from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) training academy in 1991, Janet Merlo was looking forward to getting to work at her first posting in Nanaimo, British Columbia. It was...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 144-45
Review
Review
Rufus: The Life of the Canadian Journalist who Interviewed Hitler
Colin Castle has undertaken a labour of love. The retired schoolteacher spent four years researching, transcribing, and writing the story of newspaperman Lukin “Rufus” Johnston. The self-described “history buff” (xvii) married Val Johnston, the granddaughter...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 168-69
Review
We Go Far Back In Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987
Nicholas Bradley is to be commended for this edited collection of Earle Birney and Al Purdy’s correspondence. As might be expected from two epic figures of Canadian literature who lived and worked in British Columbia,...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 138-40
Review
Review
Review
Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut
Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut is the collaborative effort of a prize-winning photographer (Nancy Bleck), a writer (Katherine Dodds), and a Squamish Nation chief (Bill Williams). The 175-page coffee-table book documents the story of how a...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 155-56
Review
Klallam Dictionary
Timothy Montler’s Klallam Dictionary is much more than a listing of words in Klallam and English. It is a beautiful, solid volume of information that has potential to be useful to a wide range of...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 198-99
Review
Historical GIS Research in Canada
This is a wonderful collection of thirteen essays, nine co-authored (twenty-seven authors all told), written by historians, geographers, librarians, archivists, cartographers, environmental scientists, and an architect, many of them acknowledging by name the other research...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 163-65
Review
article
article
article
article
article
Review
On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Michael Asch has enjoyed a distinguished career as an anthropologist and original thinker. In his writing he wrestles with the big questions of Indigenous/settler relations, proposes original answers, and argues his points with elegance and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 185-86
Review
Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
Review
Okanagan Geology South: Geologic Highlights of the South Okanagan, British Columbia
Guidebooks present risks. Some authors inadvertently lead readers into the minutia that is their passion. Others find themselves indulging in editorial or polemic. Yet others lose their readers in what might be described as a...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 232-33
Review
Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia
Just about every kid who grew up in British Columbia in the 1980s had a friend (or a friend of a friend) whose parents were American immigrants. Their parents usually arrived in the province sometime...