Index

Review

Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia

The study of indigenous history is fundamentally interdisciplinary and benefits, as Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia illustrates, from consideration of different forms of data from a range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. The challenge...

Review by Andrew Martindale

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 144-46

Review

Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History

Vancouver’s famous park has received a lot of attention, including from notable historians like Jean Barman and Robert A. J. McDonald, prominent artists like Emily Carr, and a continuous collection of journalists and tourism writers...

Review by Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73

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Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965-73

During the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of draft-age Americans came north to Canada to avoid military service and protest the war in Vietnam. A few were deported, and others left voluntarily; but most...

Review by Daniel Ross

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 164-66

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Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada

Selling Sex draws in many authors who have long been involved in the struggle to decriminalize sex work in Canada. The volume offers chapters written by academics, activists, and sex industry workers. Together they make...

Review by Kevin Walby

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 156-57

Review

Charles Edenshaw

This is the catalogue for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition. Curated and edited by Robin K. Wright, Curator of Native American Art and Director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of...

Review by Martha Black

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 147-49

Review

Finding Jim

Finding Jim is an intimate portrayal of grief. In this memoir, first-time author Susan Oakey-Baker chronicles her relationship with mountain guide Jim Haberl (1958-99), a Canadian climber made famous for his 1993 ascent of K2...

Review by Zac Robinson

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 173-74

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The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway

This book, aptly titled The Oil Man and the Sea, is about the current threat posed by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline to the ecosystems and people of the Great Bear Rainforest. This region,...

Review by Maggie Low

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 174-77

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Tragedy on Jackass Mountain

No Easy Ride: Reflections on my Life in the RCMP

Review by Bonnie Reilly Schmidt

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Pages 154-56

Review

Barkerville and the Cariboo Goldfields

Cariboo Gold Rush: The Stampede that Made BC

The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of Gold-fields of British Columbia

Review by Mica Jorgenson

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Pages 154-56

Review

When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada’s “Most Influential Literary Magazine”

Words, Words, Words: Essays and Memoirs

Review by Nicholas Bradley

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Pages 168-70

Review

Now You’re Logging

Romance, high drama with runaway logging trucks (26-29), and dangerous river crossings of donkey engines (65-72) are all integral parts of this graphic portrayal of British Columbia’s coastal logging scene during the 1930s. Although Griffiths...

Review by Robert Griffin

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 163-64

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The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Books that are compilations of papers given at conferences, such as this one, can be rather disjointed, often with only a few chapters of interest to each individual reader. This is an exception to that...

Review by Becky Wigen

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 146-48

Review

Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals

Histories of Aboriginal health form a field that has captured significant public interest after Ian Mosby’s recent revelation of experiments performed on Aboriginal children in residential schools and hospitals. Laurie Meijer Drees gives an accessible...

Review by Leah Wiener