Index

The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935

Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1]  In contrast to...

Review by Wendy Wickwire

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72

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

Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses and the Imperial Press

In May 1861, the British Colonist, a local newspaper in Victoria, Vancouver Island, reported on a “Horrid Massacre in New Zealand.” According to the Colonist, Maori warriors had launched a surprise attack on a small...

Review by Robert Hogg

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 172-4

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

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

Kerry Mason begins The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts with a question: ‘Why haven’t I heard about this artist?’ (x) By the end of the book the reader is persuaded that we should indeed...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 174-5

Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy

By Jordan Stanger-Ross

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 39-62

race and racism Japanese internment administration Kimura Kishizo

Imagining Uplands: John Olmsted’s Masterpiece of Residential Design

This is a most handsome book, and a most intelligent analysis of the dense process of realizing a design concept. Larry McCann has allowed his telling of the Uplands history to be imaginative, if not...

Review by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 175-77

“‘Not being religious didn’t take away from their Jewishness’: The complexities of lived religion among late 19th and early 20th century B.C. Jews”

By Lynne Sorrel Marks

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 63-82

religion Jewish peoples

Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917.

E.A Heaman has produced a decided masterpiece on a topic too often thought to be dry as a bone. Taxation, with its underlying legitimacy of consent, is the lifeblood of the state, supplying it with...

Review by Michael J. Prince

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 177-8

Shellfish and Coastal Change: Pacific Oysters and Manila Clams in BC Waters

By Jennifer J. Silver

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 83-103

trade and commerce aquaculture shellfish

An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936

For most of the past eighty years, Section 98 of Canada’s Criminal Code has been seen as an “exceptional law” in a different way than Dennis Molinaro regards it. Because of its limited life (1919-1936),...

Review by Larry Hannant

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 178-9

Out on the Slopes: Activism, Identity, and Money in Whistler’s Gay Ski Week, 1992-2012

By Christopher Douglas Herbert

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 105-126

skiing tourism LGBT[Q+] Whistler

The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang

The past decade has witnessed a surge in Vancouver criminal and nocturnal history, from Daniel Francis’s Red Light Neon (2006) to Diane Purvey and John Belshaw’s Vancouver Noir (2011) and Belshaw’s edited collection Vancouver Confidential...

Review by Matthieu Caron

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 179-181

Labrets and Their Social Context in Coastal British Columbia

By Marina La Salle

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 123-153

aboriginal culture labrets

Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community

The Alaska Highway runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska. Built by the American military for defense purposes during the Second World War, it was opened to the public in 1948 and...

Review by Steve Penfold

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 181-2

Barking Up the Right Tree: Understanding Birch Bark Artifacts from the Canadian Plateau, British Columbia

By Shannon Croft, Rolf W. Mathewes

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 83-122

archaeology aboriginal culture birch and birch bark paleoethnobotany Lillooet

The Queen of the North Disaster, The Captain’s Story

As one might expect from a competent and conscientious career mariner, Colin Henthorne’s account of the sinking of the Queen of the North on March 22, 2006, a little south of Prince Rupert on British...

Review by Howard Stewart

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 182-4

Oregon’s Doukhobors: The Hidden History of a Russian Religious Sect’s Attempts to Found Colonies in the Beaver State

By Ron Verzuh

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 43-81

Doukhobors agriculture United States

Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley

The Woods: A Year on Protection Island

Review by Andrew Scott

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Pages 184-5

Panic on Love Street: Citizens and Local Government Respond to Vancouver’s Hippie Problem, 1967-68

By Daniel Ross

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 11-41

hippies government control Kitsilano neighbourhood Vancouver

The Regulation of Peace River: A Case Study for River Management

The Peace River is an impressive natural system, flowing from the Rocky Mountains of northeastern British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean, and it has been historically (and prehistorically) a vital part of the region. From...

Review by Undiné Thompson

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 185-7

Managing Diversity in the Representation of BC History: Point Ellice House and “Chinatown”

By Misao Dean

BC Studies no. 134 Summer 2002 | Page(s) 71-86

historiography museums

In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice

This edited volume of modern BC birthing stories will be a compelling read for anyone with a personal or professional interest in the rich drama of childbirth. Not intended as a scholarly text, the sixty...

Review by Megan J. Davies

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 187-88

The British Columbia Crown Corporations Committee: Comparisons and Implications

By R. S. Milne

BC Studies no. 68 Winter 1985-1986 | Page(s) 23-44

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia government control