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Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tze-whit-zen Village
Breaking Ground, by journalist Lynda Mapes, is a compelling, well told story of a Coast Salish tribe in Washington State – the Lower Elwha – and its fraught relations with the settler community that grew...
Pages 115-116
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Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia – Exploring the Spirit of the Pacific Northwest
Fourteen individually authored chapters (and several supplements) reflect on a shared and bifurcated bioregion and, in the process, assemble the varied ways in which the designation “Cascadia” has been applied. Among the surprises in the...
Pages 117-118
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Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge
Probably few occupants of the 120,000 vehicles that daily take the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing know its full name or the story behind it. Of those who do, a significant portion still resents the...
Pages 119-120
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Becoming British Columbia: A Population History
If Canada, as William Lyon Mackenzie King once quipped, has too much geography, John Belshaw might well reply that Canadian historiography has too little demography. Regional historical writing, including that found in British Columbia, has...
Pages 120-122
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Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920
It took a mountain of labour to write this book, but the result is a molehill of meaningful history. This is the second volume of Ian McKay’s planned multi-volume history of the left in Canada,...
Pages 122-127
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Now It’s Called Princeton: Songs and Poems of BC’s Upper Similkameen
Both of these works step outside of conventional history, and to very good effect. One is a novel in which the principal characters participate in that mid-nineteenth-century mass movement, the BC gold rush. The other...
Pages 127-28
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Legacy in Wood: The Wahl Family Boat Builders
For almost half a century, the Wahl family boatyard near Prince Rupert produced high-quality wooden boats for the coastal fishing fleet. Founded by Norwegian immigrant Ed Wahl after the First World War, the boatyard built...
Pages 127-129
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Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen
As I was reading this book in the late summer of 2009, I was struck by the sharp difference between the heyday of British Columbia’s fishing industry as portrayed in Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet...
Pages 130-131
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Surveying Central British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1920-28
In Surveying Central British Columbia, Jay Sherwood offers us the second instalment of the exploits of provincial surveyor Frank Swannell, who spent nine seasons creating and connecting a survey network in the Upper Nechako country...
Pages 131-132
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Seeking Balance: Conversations with BC Women in Politics
BC women have made important gains in electoral politics over the past century. In the national context, British Columbia has led the way, being the first province to elect a female premier, the first to...
Pages 132-133
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I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter
About a decade ago, I wrote a review article in this journal in which I expressed the hope that more first-hand accounts of growing up Japanese or Chinese in British Columbia would be published [1]....
Pages 134-135
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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
Pages 135-136
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Brendan F.R. Edwards holds a doctorate in history (specializing in Native-Newcomer relations) from the University of Saskatchewan and master’s degrees from Trent and McGill universities. He is the author of Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960 (Scarecrow, 2005) and articles on Aboriginal literacy and publishing in History of the Book in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2005, 2007).
Daniel Heidt is a second year PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario. His master’s thesis examined how Howard Green’s views on war developed during his lifetime. Daniel’s current research includes continuing work on Howard Green, as well as the Canadian arctic.
James Lawson is an Assistant Professor in Canadian Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. His specialties are in Canadian Political Economy and Environmental Policy, with a particular emphasis on natural resource policy and politics.
Gordon W. Roe completed a PhD in anthropology at SFU in 2006 which examined harm reduction programs and community organizations in the Downtown Eastside (DES). He currently lives and does research in the
DES and teaches at various institutions in the Lower Mainland.
Margot Young is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. She is co-editor of Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism (UBC Press, 2008) and co-author of the report Possibilities and Prospects: The Debate Over a Guaranteed Income (CCPA, 2009).
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