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The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
Thirty years ago, my husband and I were having dinner at the Da Tandoor restaurant in Victoria with the incomplete executive of the League of Canadian Poets. All eyes were on the door. Would Pat...
Pages 97-9
Book Review
The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914
David Leonard’s latest work on the Peace River country of northern British Columbia and Alberta is distinguished from its predecessors by an emphasis on the region’s agricultural history. Drawn in part from documents profiling who...
Pages 111-2
Book Review
Stella: Unrepentant Madam
Linda Eversole’s biography of Victoria madam Stella Carroll (1872-1946) is listed on the book cover as fitting into two genres: “creative non-fiction” and “history.” It’s an interesting division for an interesting book. Having spent more...
Pages 107-9
Book Review
Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and Practices of Resettlement on Saltspring Island, 1859-1891
One of the most unexpected conse quences of the systematic social history undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s was a profound rethinking of its initial focus on industrialization and urbanization as the central features of...
Pages 106-7
Book Review
The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
In their recent edited collection, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005), Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton call for a renewed focus on gender as a category of historical analysis, positioning “the...
Pages 104-5
Book Review
Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson
Like Sheila Watson’s seminal – and quintessentially British Columbian – novel, The Double Hook, F.T. Flahiff’s book takes both its title and its epigraph from a particularly dramatic and thematically relevant moment in its text....
Pages 100-1
Book Review
Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth
This wonderful collection of letters describes a special friend ship between Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth between 1940 and 1945. Carr was already recognized as a distinguished artist, but she had just begun to write...
Pages 99-100
Book Review
Winging Home: A Palette of Birds
At the risk of categorizing an uncategorizable book, I feel compelled to acknowledge a trend among “nature poets” in Canada that sees many of them exploring in nonfiction prose what they typically reserve for poetry....
Pages 115-7
Book Review
Royal City: A Photographic History of New Westminster, 1858-1960
Today, many residents of the Lower Mainland know New Westminster only as the site of traffic jams as they wait to get on to the Pattullo, the Queensborough, and Alex Fraser bridges; Highway 401; or...
Pages 112-4
Book Review
Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality: A Vital Link
Canadian Aboriginal Art And Spirituality: A Vital Link acknowledges right from the start that Aboriginal art forms in Canada have historically been misinterpreted as mere “craft” and that the all-important spiritual foundations of such art...
Pages 114-5
Book Review
Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History
A primary goal of feminist scholarship and activism is to interrupt assumed notions about gender and to intervene in the naturalization of processes that perpetuate women’s op pression and subordination in patri archal societies. Contemporary...
Pages 109-11
Book Review
Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past
This is a great time to be writing Aboriginal history. A decade of productive interplay between postcolonial studies, feminist analysis, and new methods of research has opened new interpretive pathways to historians of First Nations....
Pages 102-4
Contributors
Contributors
Forrest Pass is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Western Ontario. His research explores several aspects of the relationship between national and regional consciousness in Canada, using British Columbia as a case study. He is also editor of the Canadian History and Canadian Studies discussion forum, H-Canada.
Katharine Rollwagen is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her article, “When Ghosts Hovered: Community and crisis in a company town, Britannia Beach, B.C., 1957-1965,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Urban History Review.
Melanie Buddle teaches History and Canadian Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Her most recent publication was “The Business of Women: Female Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1941,” Journal of the West vol. 43, no. 2, Spring 2004. Her current research project is a post-World War Two comparison of self-employed women in Peterborough, Ontario and Victoria, BC. She completed her PhD at the University of Victoria in 2003.