Politics and Public Automobile Insurance in British Columbia, 1970-2010
By Richard C. McCandless
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013
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Politics and Public Automobile Insurance in British Columbia, 1970-2010
By Richard C. McCandless
Postponed Decisions: Petroleum Exploration on Canada’s Western Continental Shelf
By Robert G. McCandless
By Hugh J.M. Johnston
Komagata Maru Revisited: “Hindus,” Hookworm, and the Guise of Public Health Protection
By Isabel Wallace
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century
By Jonathan Clapperton
Hugh Johnston is a professor emeritus in history at Simon Fraser University and recent author of Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family (2011).
Richard McCandless is a retired senior BC government public servant with an interest in history and public policy. He was the lead government facilitator of the transfer of the driver licensing program to ICBC in the early 1990s. He has a history degree from the University of Victoria and a Master of Public Administration from Queen’s University, and lives in Saanich, BC.
Robert McCandless began his professional career in oil and gas and mining exploration. For several years while living in the Yukon, he was a contract researcher and writer, which led to his publishing Yukon Wildlife: A Social History (University of Alberta Press, 1985). He later worked for Environment Canada mainly on pollution prevention in mining, and also for several years advising on Aboriginal affairs including treaty negotiations.
Isabel Wallace is a doctoral candidate at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on South Asians and public health in BC and the Pacific Coast states in the early twentieth century.
LiLynn Wan is a potter who completed her PhD in history at Dalhousie
University. She has a particular interest in the history of race and First Nations in British Columbia, where she is originally from. She is currently the proprietor of WaterDragon Pottery, which operates out of her studio in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia.
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