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BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012
The paper copy of issue no. 172, Winter 2011/12 features an informative 70 x 100 cm map “Fraser River Gold Mines and Their Place Names: A Map from Hope to Quesnel Forks,” drawn by Eric Leinberger, which accomapnies Andrew Nelson and Mike Kennedy’s aritcle.
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From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919
While the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War unfolds with little or no fanfare, it is appropriate to consider an even more forgotten Canadian military adventure: the Canadian Siberian Expedition to the Russian port...
Pages 138-39
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The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism
Keith Thor Carlson’s book focuses on the relationship between history and identity among the Stó:lÅ people of the Lower Fraser River between 1780 and 1906. He examines specific events and broad trends to demonstrate how...
Pages 128-9
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Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
Colonists seldom embarked alone to new continents, and so the act of “settling” was often the act of creating a “settlement.” Penelope Edmonds’s Urbanizing Frontiers reminds us that the interface between settler and...
Pages 130-31
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The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay’s 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies
In 1914, Samuel Prescott Fay (1884- 1971), a Harvard graduate from Boston, ventured twelve hundred kilometres through the northern Rockies from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope. While the Harvard Travelers Club deferred exploration in the...
Pages 137-38
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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism is one of those unique edited volumes in which the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. As suggested in the subtitle, the legacy of J.S. Woodsworth...
Pages 141-45
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The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
Making Way for Indigenous Voices However sensitive those of us who are non-indigenous and write on indigenous topics might be, we do so as outsiders. We have empathy and we attempt to understand,...
Pages 134-35
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Chicken Poop for the Soul: In Search of Food Sovereignty
Chicken Poop for the Soul is, in part, a personal journal documenting Kristeva Dowling’s quest to take more control of the food she consumes by spending eighteen months growing, foraging, bartering, hunting, and fishing for...
Pages 146-48
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This is What They Say. Stories by Francois Mandeville: A Story Cycle Dictsted in Northern Alberta in 1928
Ron Scollon was an eminent linguist who worked for much of his life on Athapaskan languages and the ethnography of speaking. This Is What They Say was his final project; sadly, he died in 2010....
Pages 136-37
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Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools, A Memoir.
Canadians who advise survivors of Native residential schools to “ just get over it” should read Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools. Author Theodore Fontaine, cousin of the more famous Phil, attended...
Pages 131-32
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Images from the Likeness House
At the start of Images from the Likeness House, Dan Savard tells us why the photographs he presents of Aboriginal people are important. Put succinctly, it is because of their past and continuing influence on...
Pages 127-8
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The Beggar’s Garden
When I first picked up Michael Christie’s collection of short stories, The Beggar’s Garden, I worried that it would be an overly romanticized or pitying account of the residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Yet, as...
Pages 145-46
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Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
The most spectacular and accessible wildlife spectacle in British Columbia is the annual arrival of snow geese on Westham Island. For twenty-five years my office overlooked Reifel Refuge, and flocks of snow geese tumbling out...
Pages 148-49
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Still Fishin’: The BC Fishing Industry Revisited
Is there a future for sustainable commercial fisheries that support independent fishers and their way of life in British Columbia’s coastal communities? This timely question has recently been examined by Alan Haig-Brown – former fisher,...
Pages 140-41
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Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
For years Canadians have been learning about the horrors of the Indian residential schools: from histories that have been written, from the 1996 report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (which blamed the schools...
Pages 132-33
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Mark Crawford, a graduate of the University of British Columbia and Oxford University, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Centre for Social Sciences at Athabasca University. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.
Michael Kennedy is a retired geography teacher living actively on a ridge south of Lillooet in the middle canyons of the Fraser River. He is fifth generation of his family to live out their lives there in intimacy with these dramatic landscapes.
Eric Leinberger is a cartographer in the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia, where he has prepared many maps and illustrations in books and journals since July 1992.
Margaret (Maggie) Low received a BSc from the University of Guelph in Resource Management and an MA in Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria. Maggie is interested in sustainability and environment issues, especially those that tackle the challenges of ensuring ecological integrity while maintaining human well-being. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
Andrew Nelson is a geomorphologist who completed his Masters degree in the Geography Department at UBC in 2011. His research interests include human-landscape interaction, the evolution of sediment slugs in rivers, and the use of historical methods to understand geomorphic processes and change. His MSc work along the Fraser River emphasizes the importance of understanding upstream and historical context in the study of natural processes.
Patricia E. Roy is professor emeritus of History at the University of Victoria. This article draws on research for her forthcoming biography of Richard McBride.
Karena Shaw is Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.