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BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016
Featuring articles by Anika Nicole Stafford, Tom Langford, Ben Bradley, Nichole Dusyk, Katharine Dickerson, and Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa.
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Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship
This precisely researched and engaging study enlarges our understanding of the archive by focusing on the decisions taken by or imposed on five Canadian women writers about the disposition of their papers or literary record....
Pages 183-84
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Salmon: A Scientific Memoir
Inspired by John Steinbeck, journalist Jude Isabella combines narrative and knowledge in a well-crafted and informative ode to the Pacific coast. Her accounts of salmon, science and history are drawn from her studies and from...
Pages 188-89
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The Answer is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance
The Answer is Still No is a disparate collection of voices united in opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines: First Nations activists and hereditary chiefs, members of the environmental movement establishment and those self-consciously on...
Pages 187-88
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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the catalogue of arguably one of the most important exhibitions of Canadian art in recent history, which in turn dealt with one of the most transformative art movements...
Pages 176-77
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A Natural Selection: Building a Conservation Community on Sidney Island
In many British Columbia communities diverse actors have long fought to protect their ecological treasures. Their struggles have played a part in preventing the degradation of vast expanses of land: about 14 million hectares (14.4...
Pages 179-182
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Witness: Canadian Art of the First World War
The centenary of the First World War currently being commemorated has only further sparked our perpetual fascination with that conflict. With the eyewitnesses now gone, we are left to ponder the records and reflections they...
Pages 171-73
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Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada
This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...
Pages 174-76
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Vancouver Blue: A Life Against Crime
Wayne Cope joined the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in 1975, the fulfillment of a childhood dream to be a police officer. Like most police memoirs, Cope’s is filled with anecdotal stories, some humorous and some...
Pages 184-85
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New Perspectives on the Gold Rush
Under editor Kathryn Bridge, New Perspectives on the Gold Rush teams up academic historians, archaeologists, and museum professionals in an effort to add previously marginalized voices to traditional histories of British Columbia’s gold rush. Despite...
Pages 164-66
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Names on a Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World War I
Sylvia Crooks’s Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II (2005) brought to life the lives of all the men honoured on the Nelson cenotaph and the impact of the war on their families...
Pages 169-171
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Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur
Reading these two books in tandem is a reminder, if one were needed, that all is relational. Considered in isolation, each work offers illuminating insights into imperial hunting culture in the American West. Read in...
Pages 156-158
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Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Judging a book by the cover, we are told, is never a good idea. In this case the artwork by Dana Claxton implies an ironic, wind-in-his-hair-style cruise down a testosterone highway. Twenty-three authors, including eight...
Pages 158-159
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Legacy in Time: Three Generations of Mountain Photography in the Canadian West
British Columbia and Alberta are home to the most iconic mountain landscapes in Canada. To many of us, visitors and Canadians alike, these landscapes are the embodiment of Canada. They tempt us to stop, explore,...
Pages 167-68
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Drawn to Sea: Paintbrush to Chainsaw: Carving out a life on BC’s Rugged Raincoast.
Ever since Muriel Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time (1961), memoirs of some of the west coast’s most tough and toothsome women have enjoyed a prominent position on BC Ferry gift shop bookshelves. Recent publications such...
Pages 182-83
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Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? addresses important questions about the contribution of arts and culture in small and medium sized cities and the ethos and ethics of supporting cultural development in these environments. Small and...
Pages 177-78
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The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown
Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...
Pages 160-164
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
During his round-the-world voyage in 1842, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Governor George Simpson arrived at Fort Stikine and discovered that chief trader John McLoughlin Jr. had been killed. Two recent books discuss this event....
Pages 154-155
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A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia.
This is a journalist’s book about one of the crucial issues of our time: growing inequality. As Thomas Piketty has shown in his careful study of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) the tendency for...
Pages 186-87
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Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
In Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Robert Hogg examines the gendered expectations, manly identities, and lived experiences of British men in mid-nineteenth-century Queensland and British Columbia....
Pages 166-67
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The Laird of Fort William: William McGillivray and the North West Company
In The Laird of Fort William: William McGillivray and the North West Company, Irene Gordon, a true daughter of the Saskatchewan prairies, has provided an informative outline of the western operations of the North West...
Pages 152-154
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Bootleggers and Borders: The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-US Borderland
Given how contentious relations between Canada and the US became during the American Prohibition era (1917-1933), it is surprising how little scholarly work has been done on the subject. There are many popular books about...
Pages 173-74
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The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer who Opened the Northwest
Barry Gough has masterfully grappled with the challenge of interpreting an important figure in the Canadian fur trade in his book, The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer who Opened the Northwest....
Pages 151-152
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The Railway Beat: A Century of Canadian Pacific Police Service
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) experimented with many different forms of policing throughout its long history. How do you protect a 2,000-mile transportation network that keeps growing? David Laurence Jones’s The Railway Beat looks...
Pages 168-69
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Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies and Human Communities in British Columbia.
This is a thought-provoking book. Focussing on the rangelands of Interior British Columbia, John Thistle describes how commercial ranching begot inequities, dispossessions, and ecological degradation. All, according to his analysis, were avoidable. Resettling the Range...
Pages 178-79
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Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...
Pages 159-160
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Contributors
Contributors
Ben Bradley is a Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History & Classics ay the University of Alberta. In 2011, with Jenny Clayton, he guest-edited Provincial Parks, a special issue of BC Studies (no. 170).
Katharine Dickerson is a lecturer emeritus at Alberta College of Art and Design where she taught for thirty years before retiring in 2007. She has over sixty years of weaving experience and her work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions. In 2002 she published the article “Making Meaning, Aho Tapu: The Sacred Weft”, in Crafts Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse, edited by Paula Gustafson (Ronsdale Press). The majority of her research has been con- ducted through living and working with Salish, Maori, and Aboriginal twiners and incorporating that knowledge into her studio practice.
Nichole Dusyk is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on the intersection of energy and participatory governance. She has completed work on municipal energy planning and the development of large-scale renewable energy in British Columbia, including studies of the City of Dawson Creek, the Bear Mountain Wind Park, and the Site C Hydroelectric Project. Her current research examines the discourses of legitimacy and construction of environmental subjectivities created via the regulatory review of pipelines.
Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa recently retired as Director, Research Services, at Vancouver Island University. She is enrolled at Olds College, Alberta, in the Master Spinners program, where she has completed the six years of coursework and is completing an applied spinning research project which focuses on Coast Salish spinning.
Tom Langford teaches courses on social inequalities, labour unions, Alberta society, and research methodologies as a member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. His previous work on the Crowsnest Pass includes a book co-edited with Wayne Norton, A World Apart: The Crowsnest Communities of Alberta and British Columbia (Plateau Press, 2002).
Anika Stafford’s research focuses on children and gender justice and spans sociological and historical methods. Her book, Is It Still a Boy? Heteronormativity in Kindergarten, is forthcoming with UBC Press. Dr. Stafford completed her SSHRC-funded PhD with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is currently conducting SSHRC postdoctoral research on gender, sexuality, and children’s recreational programming during the Cold War era.