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Echoes of British Columbia: Voices from the Frontier
For devotees of British Columbian history and, in particular, of the province’s local histories, the origins of Robert Budd’s latest collection of oral history transcripts will be familiar. Drawn from the pioneering work of...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 122-23
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The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview. Third Edition
Despite its slim size (the main body of text is only 117 pages), The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview is a useful primer for those hoping to learn the basic issues relevant...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08
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The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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Landscape Architecture in Canada
Landscape Architecture in Canada is Ron Williams’ magnum opus, the likely capstone of a distinguished career as researcher, teacher, and practitioner. It is a fine scholarly effort, more than fifteen years in the making. Until...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 136-38
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
Since the sixteenth century, intrepid French Canadians have traversed the North American landscape to the very edges of the continent, and established families and communities in virtually every region north of Mexico. Given this legacy...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 114-16
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The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb
Everyone has met artists who triumphed at art school, who showed some promise following graduation, but who then vanished from the art world. The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb tells such a...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 140-41
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He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award
Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22
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“Metis:” Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
In “Métis,” Chris Andersen highlights the widespread marginalization of Métis peoples by taking to task the continued racialization of the term “Métis.” Systematically unpacking the ways in which the word “Métis” has been misrecognized and...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 116-17
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Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Nancy Turner’s new work Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is undoubtedly her magnum opus. It is a thing of great scope, beauty, eloquence, and cohesion. Yet perhaps its greatest attribute, like all of Turner’s work, is...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 111-13
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Wood Storms/Wild Canvas: The Art of Godfrey Stephens
In the introduction that the art critic Robert Amos has contributed to this pictorial biography, he tells us that Duncan-born Godfrey Stephens is “too busy and too self-centred, to study the influences of art history...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 152-53
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Ladysmith: Our Community, Your Credit Union — A History
Patrick Dunae’s microhistory, Ladysmith: Our Community, Your Credit Union — A History, is attractive and approachable, and a success at what intends to be: a proudly colourful and informative history of the Ladysmith Credit Union....
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 135-36
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A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes
Tom Swanky’s self-published book A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes brings into sharp focus the problems faced by historians steeped in a discipline that does not fully appreciate the culturally constructed limitations...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 117-18
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Vancouver Confidential
John Belshaw undertook the task of publishing a series of fifteen essays on Vancouver written by artists, journalists, and writers. There is no specific thesis in this collection, and no attempt to convey a specific...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 132-34
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Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
This is a timely, thoughtful, and useful collection of primary documents on the history of the interactions among Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, and the Canadian state. Given what is currently available, it will be invaluable...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120
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The Afterthought: West Coast Rock Posters and Recollections
Jerry Kruz’s beautifully illustrated autobiographical work provides an intriguing first hand glimpse of Vancouver psychedelic music scene. The book revolves around Kruz’s years as a concert promoter from 1966 to 1969. Although it briefly describes...
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