Index

Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Insights into Locally Variable Subsistence Patterns: A Case Study from Late Holocene Southern Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

By Trevor J. Orchard, Paul Szpak

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 87-129

archaeology Haida Charlotte Islands northwest coast

Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver

In Once They Were Hats, Francis Backhouse, who teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria, invites us to join her in exploring the multifaceted history of the beaver. She recounts personal stories about trips...

Review by Ezekiel Gow

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 174-175

The Precarious Politics of Shifting Direction: The Introduction of a Harmonized Sales Tax in British Columbia and Ontario

By George Malcolm Abbot

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 125-149

harmonized sales tax (HST) taxation government Liberal Party Campbell Gordon

The Great Bear Sea: Exploring the Marine Life of a Pacific Paradise

The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest

Review by Margaret (Maggie) Low

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Pages 175-177

Blaylock’s Bomb: How a Small BC City Helped Create the World’s First Weapon of Mass Destruction

By Ron Verzuh

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 95-125

Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (CM&S) nuclear arms and energy weapons and munitions Trail Blaylock Selwyn G.

Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness

Museums and the Past opens with a statement that “‘museums’ and ‘historical consciousness’ dovetail almost intuitively” (3). I don’t think they do, and this book does not convince me. The editors offer a couple of...

Review by Alan Gordon

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 177-178

From Imbroglio to Pig War: The San Juan Island Dispute, 1853-71, in History and Memory

By Gordon Robert Lyall

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 73-95

historiography Haro Strait San Juan Island and archipelago

Highlights: Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives

Using text and images, this booklet focuses on the varied elements that make up the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives – its history, physical components (primarily the exhibits), functions, and activities – and on...

Review by Bianca Message

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 178-179

Haro or Rosario? Maps, Navigation, and the Anglo-American Northwest Water Boundary Dispute, 1846-72

By John P.D. Dunbabin

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 39-72

treaties maritime history Haro Strait San Juan Island and archipelago

Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form (50th anniversary edition)

To anyone who is familiar with Northwest Coast art scholarship, it will come as no surprise that Bill Holm’s Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form was published anew 50 years after it was...

Review by Solen Roth

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 179-180

Maybe National Park: Consultation, Conservation, and Conflict in the Okanagan-Similkameen

By Caroline Elizabeth Grego

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 43373

parks and reserves Similkameen conservation Parks Canada Okanagan Valley Txasqin (Mount Kobau)

Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013

The short title of the book – Red – shares its name with the 2013 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, which gathered together the work of five notable Indigenous artists: Julie...

Review by Geoffrey Carr

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 180-181

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

The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff

Jeffrey Rubinoff (1945-2017) is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and 1980s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada. Though poised...

Review by Susan Lewis

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 181-182

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

The Life and Art of Mary Filer

The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Pages 182-185

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

Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

  Masculinity is not an easy concept to define, never mind Indigenous masculinities, and in Indigenous Men and Masculinities, co-editors Robert Innes and Kim Anderson don’t really attempt to define it. In the closing chapter,...

Review by Jean-Paul Restoule

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 222-224

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

Working Mothers and the Childcare Dilemma

The history of twentieth century childcare has received scant attention from historians in Canada. Lisa Pasolli’s compact study of childcare debates in British Columbia from the 1900s through the Harper era reveals what a historian...

Review by Esyllt W. Jones

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 224-225

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

Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art

In this fascinating collection, seven Indigenous artists from across Canada illustrate how digital technologies and Indigenous ontologies combine to inform new media theory and practice. In different ways, the contributors demonstrate how digital technologies are...

Review by Rob McMahon

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 217-218

“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)

Cleaner Greener Smarter: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies

The World Health Organization released an update to the Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database on 12 May 2016, finding that more than 80 percent of people who live in major cities around the world...

Review by Deborah Curran

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 201-203