Index

Canoe Crossings: Understanding the Craft That Helped Shape British Columbia

A devoted canoeist, Sanford Osler has used his wide experience with many forms of paddle-craft to write a comprehensive and well-informed review of canoeing and kayaking in British Columbia. His up-to-date and very readable presentation...

Review by Alan Hoover

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 151-52

Salmonbellies vs. The World: The Story of the Most Famous Team in Lacrosse & Their Greatest Rivals

In this well-researched, beautifully illustrated book W.B. MacDonald tells the story of the Salmonbellies from their founding to the present, and he does much more. He traces the evolution of lacrosse in the province, beginning...

Review by Eric Sager

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 167-68

Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family

Buckerfield tells the story of one of Vancouver’s most important business families. The story is structured around two narrative strands. One is the business history of the family patriarch, Edward Ernest Buckerfield, the New Brunswick-born...

Review by Robert A.J. McDonald

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 177-78

Women Caring for Kamloops, 1890-1975

Daughters in the City: Mennonite Maids in Vancouver, 1931-61

Review by Lisa Pasolli

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Pages 228-29

A Tsilhqút’ín Grammar

Eung-Do Cook’s (2013) A Tsilhqút’ín Grammar is the culmination of his research on the language, spanning forty years. It provides a very thorough, albeit quite technical, overview of Tsilhqút’ín linguistic structure. Overall, the grammar is...

Review by Sonya Bird

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 196-98

Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870

A Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633) was published by command of King Charles I after Thomas James (c.1593-1635) returned from overwintering in James Bay. Dead by 1635, James had nothing to do with the founding...

Review by I.S. MacLaren

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 160-63

Multi-Level Governance in British Columbia: Local Perspectives on Shifting Relations and Structures

By Dion Curry

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 103-124

government municipal government public policy

Home to the Nechako: The River and the Land

A Trail of Two Telegraphs: And Other Historic Tales of the Bulkley Valley and Beyond

Pioneer Daughter: Footnotes on a Life in Northern British Columbia

Review by Jonathan Swainger

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Pages 203-05

Mac-Pap: Memoir of a Canadian in the Spanish Civil War

I first read Mac-Pap: Memoir of a Canadian in the Spanish Civil War in manuscript form thanks to the invaluable labour-related holdings of the Special Collections Division at UBC Library. While I don’t think it...

Review by Todd McCallum

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 220

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

Mark Abley was understandably alarmed when an impeccably dressed apparition appeared in his living room claiming to be Duncan Campbell Scott. An accomplished and respected poet, Scott spent over fifty years working in Canada’s Department of...

Review by Keith D. Smith

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 225-26

Chinuk Wawa: Kakwa nsayka ulman-tilixam ɬaska munk-kəmtəks nsayka/As Our Elders Teach Us To Speak It

In an obscure 1978 dissertation, a linguist named Samuel Johnson demonstrated that most of the countless Chinook Jargon lexica compiled over two hundred years form a few distinct lineages.[1] Joining the ranks of definitive dictionaries...

Review by Dave Robertson

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 199-200

Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education

This collection of essays is edited by Sara Burke, a historian, and Patrick Milewski, a sociologist and former elementary school teacher, at Laurentian University. The title, Schooling in Transition, reflects the editors’ belief that public...

Review by Patrick A. Dunae

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 165-67

BC Narratives of the Great War: Home, Home Away, Loss, and Hope

Review by James A. Wood

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 177-204

Epistolary Memory: First World War Letters to British Columbia

By Megan Robertson

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 125-51

archives letters and letter writing military history Ralston and family

From British Columbia: Music of the Great War, 1914-18

By Wayne Norton

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 113-24

music military history

Wages, Work, and Wartime Demands in British Columbia Shipbuilding 1916-19

By Chris Madsen

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 73-112

labour ships and shipbuilding strikes and lockouts military history maritime history

Uncovering the Enemy Within: British Columbians and the German Menace

By Peter Moogk

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 45-72

immigration ethnicity military history Germans

A Militia History of the Occupation of the Vancouver Island Coalfields, August 1913

By Daniel Schade

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 11-44

coal mining strikes and lockouts military history militia Vancouver Island

Father Pandosy: Pioneer of Faith in the Northwest

Over the course of a ministry that spanned nearly half a century, Catholic missionary Jean-Charles Pandosy witnessed and participated in one of the most dramatic regional transformations in human history. Whereas Pandosy described his mission...

Review by Timothy P. Foran

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 201-02

Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920

Winter in the western mountains of Canada and the United States is a challenging time of year. Encounters in Avalanche Country provides insight into the experiences of trappers, miners, railway employees, and their communities in...

Review by Heather Longworth

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 212-13

Railway Rock Gang

Gary Sim worked for BC Rail rock gangs from 1978 until 1987. He gained first-hand experience in many facets of railway operations and maintenance that were the gangs’ day to day work: blasting, tree falling,...

Review by Robert D. Turner

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 218-19

Flight was in his Spirit: The Life of Harry Burfield

First Tracks: The History of Skiing in Revelstroke

First Tracks: Whistler's Early History

Review by David A. Rossiter

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Pages 209-12

The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s-1970s

Water Without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters

The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty

Review by Meg Stanley

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Pages 214-17