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The Vancouver Acheivment: Urban Planning and Design
PDF – Hutton Review Essay, BC Studies 145, Spring 2005
Pages 97-101
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A Review of Storyeum in Vancouver’s Historic/Touristic of Gastown
PDF – Stanley Review Essay, BC Studies 145, Spring 2005
Pages 103-6
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Unmarked: Landscape Along Highway 16
In 1982 SARAH DE LEEUW’S father put on a suit and tie – “a rare sight,” (1) de Leeuw writes – and then left for the airport. He returned on the evening of the third...
Pages 107-8
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Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
THE TASK APPEARS straightforward – in this case, to read W.H. New’s monumental Encyclopedia ofLiterature in Canada for information on BC writing. There is, usefully, an entry on British Columbia (unsigned, meaning “written by New”):...
Pages 108-12
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The Old Red Shirt: Pioneer Poets of British Columbia
THE TITLE OF The Old Red Shirt comes from one of the poems that Yvonne Mearns Klan collects in this wonderful book. The poem in question is by Rebecca Gibbs, a black woman who had established...
Pages 113-4
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Vancouver: A Novel
RECENTLY, THERE HAS BEEN a surge in sweeping popular portrayals of Canadian history and its Aboriginal origins, most notably in the CBC production Canada: A People’s History (2000) but also in the current theatrical Vancouver...
Pages 114-6
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The Witness Ghost
ALTHOUGH HE HAS LIVED some years now in Edmonton, Tim Bowling continues to be one of the most eloquent interpreters of British Columbia, especially of the river-coast scene and image: the sky wearing a “sodden...
Pages 116-7
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Clearcut Cause
STRUGGLES OVER THE use of British Columbia’s natural resources are a ubiquitous feature of the province’s historical landscape. How we should manage our lumber, fisheries, water, and minerals —and who should manage them – mark...
Pages 117-8
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Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
PHOTOGRAPHS OCCUPY a paradoxical place in our historical imagination. As Carol J. Williams notes in the introduction to Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest, contemporary historians have primarily...
Pages 118-20
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The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters
THE INTENT OF The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters is to present the “Native point of view” and so that will also be the perspective of this book review. On the surface of things, the method...
Pages 120-2
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Oregon’s Promise: An Interpretive History
WHY SHOULD BC Studies review a history of the State of Oregon, situated in another country and some 300 kilometres to the south? For many reasons. Our province and Oregon lie in a single economic-environmental...
Pages 122-4
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Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
IT WAS WITH SOME excitement and a little trepidation that I agreed to review Bill Miller’s book. First of all, my father, George Ball, was a Yukon Telegraph Line operator in the early years; and...
Pages 124-6
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
THE NATURE OF GOLD is in several ways a path-breaking work since, although there is a large literature on Yukon environment, there has been very little written on the environmental history of the Territory, and...
Pages 126-8
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L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
MANY NORTH AMERICAN cities have had great civic leaders. Fiorello La Guardia, New York’s Depression-era mayor, is considered the father of modern New York; Metro chair Fred Gardiner put his distinctive imprint on Toronto in the...
Pages 128-30
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Still Ranting: More Rants, Raves and Recollections
WE LEARN A LOT ABOUT Rafe Mair in these two well-written, provocative books. By his own admission he has a large ego, thin skin, and short temper. These features have probably contributed to his volatile personal...
Pages 130-2
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Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
In Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse) Julie Rak refers to Doukhobors as “bad subjects,” drawing on a concept formulated by Louis Althusser to describe a people who “resist the institutions, laws, and beliefs that would make...
Pages 132-4
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The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
THIS LONG-AWAITED BOOK argues that the Slocan Valley, through its often dramatic history, is a reflection of the region and its connection with events in British Columbia and Canada. Not so much a local history,...
Pages 134-5
Contributors
Contributors
Dan Savard is the Senior Collections Manager, Audio-visual, with the Anthropology Section, Royal British Columbia Museum where he has worked since 1973. Amongst other duties, he manages a collection of 30,000 photographs dating From the 1860s – 1990s that record the life-ways of First Nations in British Columbia, Northwestern Washington State, and Southeastern Alaska. He has participated in workshops and symposiums on visual resources collections and has given many illustrated presentations on various topics related to First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and photography. His most recent paper entitled “To do a moving picture thing…”, Cine film and the Northwest Coast 1910 – 1930, was presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference in 2003.
Jeremy Mouat teaches history at Athabasca University. His research interests include the comparative history of British colonies and colonization in the Pacific, and resource development (notably mining) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most recent articles appeared in theJournal of Latin American Studies and the South African Historical Journal.
Tina Block is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. Her research interests centre on the history of gender, religion, and irreligion in the North American west. She is currently completing her dissertation on the social and cultural dimensions of secularism in the postwar Pacific Northwest.