By George Malcolm Abbot
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 125-149
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015
Featuring articles by Caroline Elizabeth Grego, John P.D. Dunbabin, Gordon Robert Lyall, Ron Verzuh, and George Malcolm Abbott.
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By George Malcolm Abbot
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 125-149
Blaylock’s Bomb: How a Small BC City Helped Create the World’s First Weapon of Mass Destruction
By Ron Verzuh
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 95-125
From Imbroglio to Pig War: The San Juan Island Dispute, 1853-71, in History and Memory
By Gordon Robert Lyall
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 73-95
Haro or Rosario? Maps, Navigation, and the Anglo-American Northwest Water Boundary Dispute, 1846-72
By John P.D. Dunbabin
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 39-72
Maybe National Park: Consultation, Conservation, and Conflict in the Okanagan-Similkameen
By Caroline Elizabeth Grego
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 43373
Wood Storms/Wild Canvas: The Art of Godfrey Stephens
By Maria Tippett
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 152-53
Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island
By Howard Stewart
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 181-82
Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
By Leslie Robertson
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 156-57
From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
By Nancy J. Turner
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 157-58
Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
By Ron Verzuh
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 178-79
No One to Tell: Breaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP
By Bonnie Reilly Schmidt
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 144-45
Becoming Wild: Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island
By Lauren Harding
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 182-84
Rufus: The Life of the Canadian Journalist who Interviewed Hitler
By Bruce Hodding
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 168-69
Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner
By Patricia E. Roy
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 187-89
Salmo Stories: Memories of a Place in the Kootenays
By Takaia Larsen
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 171-73
Picturing Transformation: Nexw Áyantsut
By Dorothy Kennedy
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 155-56
On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
By Neil Vallance
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 185-86
Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
By Duff Sutherland
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 174-77
Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia
By Sean Kheraj
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 179-181
Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
By Kelly Black
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 173-74
John Scouler (c.1804-1871) Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages
By Ted Binnema
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 159-160
Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada
By Brian Egan
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 184-85
Canoe Crossings: Understanding the Craft That Helped Shape British Columbia
By Alan Hoover
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 151-52
Salmonbellies vs. The World: The Story of the Most Famous Team in Lacrosse & Their Greatest Rivals
By Eric Sager
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 167-68
Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family
By Robert A.J. McDonald
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 177-78
Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870
By I.S. MacLaren
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 160-63
Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education
By Patrick A. Dunae
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 165-67
George Abbott is a doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Victoria. He has previously published in BC Studies on “Duff Pattullo and the Coalition Controversy of 1941” (Summer 1994) and “Pattullo, the Press, and the Dominion-Provincial Conference of 1941” (Autumn 1996). He was a Member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Shuswap from 1996 to 2013 and a cabinet minister from 2001 to 2012.
John Dunbabin is now an Emeritus Fellow, and was, before retiring, Fellow in Politics and Modern History at St. Edmund Hall, and a university Reader in International Relations, at Oxford. His publications include books on rural discontent in nineteenth-century Britain and on international relations since 1945. He is now writing on the diplomatic processes through which what is now the line of the Canadian-US border came to be agreed. The present article is a spinoff from this project, as are two earlier map-related articles in Imago Mundi.
Caroline Grego is a second-year PhD student in history at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Originally from South Carolina, Caroline graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a BA in geography in 2011, and earned her MA in geography from the University of British Columbia in 2013. Her work now has a broad focus on environmental history, and she writes primarily about hurricanes, race, the South, and the environment.
Gordon Lyall received his MA in history from the University of Victoria in 2013. His research interests include First Nations’ historiography, nineteenth-century British Columbia, regional identity, and the occult in Victoria. Gordon is currently project manager of Colonial Despatches, a digital archive at UVic.
Ron Verzuh is a writer, historian, and documentary filmmaker currently completing his doctoral dissertation in history at SFU. He is a retired national communications director for the Canadian Union of Public Employees and author of three books, several monographs ,and numerous articles for newspapers and magazines. His latest film, Remembering Salt, is an examination of McCarthyism in small-town BC. His most recent article for BC Studies was “Oregon’s Doukhobors: The Hidden History of a Religious Sect’s Attempts to Found Colonies in the Beaver State.”
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