Index

Stewards of the People’s Forests: A Short History of the British Columbia Forest Service

The forest industry was the most important economic activity in British Columbia during the twentieth century. Oddly, except for some consideration of its founding, there has not been a major examination of an institution at...

Review by Gordon Hak

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 126-27

Barkerville in Context: Archaeology of the Chinese in British Columbia

By Douglas Edward Ross

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 161-193

archaeology chinese japanese people Barkerville

Kwong Lee & Company and Early Trans-Pacific Trade: From Canton, Hong Kong, to Victoria and Barkerville

By Tzu-I Chung

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 137-161

gold rush Kwong Lee & Co. trade and commerce chinese Barkerville

“Into That Country to Work”: Aboriginal Economic Activities during Barkerville’s Gold Rush

By Mica Jorgenson

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 109-137

gold rush economy employment aboriginal people Dakelh people Barkerville Bowron Lake Stąatąimc or Stląatląimx (Lillooet)

The Hudson’s Bay Company in Barkerville

By Ramona Boyle, Richard Mackie

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 79-109

gold rush Hudson's Bay Company trade and commerce Barkerville Wark John McAdoo

Barkerville’s Thomas Robson Pattullo in Life and Death: The Memorial Album as Aide-Memoire

By Don Bourdon

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 49-79

photography gold rush Barkerville Crawford John Wallace Dally Pattullo Dufferin Thomas Pattullo Thomas Robson

Eldorado Vernacular: Barkerville and Its Buildings

By Jennifer Iredale

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 27-49

architecture gold rush cities and towns Barkerville

A New Take on an Old Town: New Directions in Research on Barkerville and the Cariboo

By Christopher Douglas Herbert

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 13-27

historiography gold rush Barkerville Cariboo

From the West Coast to the Western Front: British Columbians and the Great War

  When Mark Forsythe, host of CBC Radio’s mid-day show, BC Almanac, and journalist-producer Greg Dickson discovered that they were both involved in a personal quest to learn about great-uncles and grandfathers who had served...

Review by James Wood

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 127-28

And the River Still Sings: A Wilderness Dweller’s Journey

Women of Brave Mettle: More Stories from the Cariboo Chilcotin

Drugstore Cowgirl: Adventures in the Cariboo-Chilcotin

Review by Connie Brim

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Pages 145-48

Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84

In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...

Review by Lisa Pasolli

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44

From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War

In his portrait of Victoria High School (VHS), Barry Gough has created a vivid microcosm of the First World War’s impact on Canadians. As one of Canada’s foremost historians, Gough brings a special authenticity to...

Review by James Wood

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 128-30

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...

Review by Jonathan Swainger

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 122-23

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...

Review by Christine Elsey

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08

Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest

Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

Review by Max Ritts

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Pages 148-150

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...

Review by Howard Stewart

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52

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...

Review by Larry McCann

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 136-38

A Legal Gamble Lost: False Creek Residents Association v Assessor of Area 9

By Sarah McCalla

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 115-124

real estate False Creek Vancouver

The Long Question of Food and Land

The Light through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming

Ginty’s Ghost: A Wilderness Dweller’s Dream

Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America

Review by James Murton

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Pages 125-138

Regional patterns of substance use in the homeless in British Columbia

By Isabelle Aube Linden, Gregory R Werker, Christian G Schutz, Marissa Y Mar, Michael Krausz, Kerry Jang

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 103-114

homelessness liquor and drugs substance use Prince George Vancouver Victoria

Oil and Gas Consultation and shale gas development in British Columbia

By Kathryn H. Garvie, Karena Shaw

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 73-102

BC Oil and Gas Commission natural gas and LNG northern development Fort Nelson First Nation Treaty 8 First Nations government

Shale Gas Development in Fort Nelson First Nation Territory: Potential Regional Impacts of the LNG Boom

By Kathryn H. Garvie, Lana Lowe, Karena Shaw

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 45-72

energy natural gas and LNG northern development environment Fort Nelson First Nation

Dikes, Ducks, and Dams: Environmental Change and the Politics of Reclamation at Creston Flats, 1882-2014

By Anne Theresa Dance

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 11-44

Columbia River treaty rivers agriculture Creston Kootenay River Constable Guy

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...

Review by Lani Russwurm

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32