We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.

BC Studies no. 225 Spring 2025

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BC Studies no. 225 Spring 2025

Featuring cover artwork by Marika Echachis Swan.

This issue includes ARTICLES by Misao Dean, Rebecca Hartley, and a multi-authored article by Tyson Singh Kelsall, Aaron Bailey, Brittany Graham, and the Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education. Our spring issue also features a RESEARCH NOTE by Ben Sheriff.  This issue will be open access 2026-07-15

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In This Issue

Review

A Haida Wedding

By Nigel Baker-Grenier

 

BC Studies no. 225 Spring 2025  pp. 103-104

Cover Image: A Haida Wedding
Review

The Sunshine Coast

By Nick Stanger

 

BC Studies no. 225 Spring 2025  pp. 107-108

Cover Image: The Sunshine Coast
Contributors

Aaron Bailey is an incoming PhD student in the Social Dimensions of Health program at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy and research assistant with the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study. He previously worked alongside the Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education (EIDGE), Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU), Right to Remain Research Collective, Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, and supported the operations of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) overdose prevention site. Bailey’s academic work explores the relationship between substance use policy history, dispossession, public health coloniality, and present-day movements for drug user liberation. His doctoral work will examine the genealogy of involuntary care for people who use drugs in so-called BC. 

Misao Dean is professor of English at the University of Victoria. She is author of numerous books and articles about Canadian literature and Canadian culture, and teaches courses on fiction and on feminism in fiction. She is also currently treasurer of the Vancouver Island Local History Society.

Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education (EIDGE) is a group of people who use illicit alcohol, or people who drink in ways that are criminalized. EIDGE works to improve the lives of illicit drinkers through education and support. 

Brittany Graham is the former executive director of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). Graham is a longtime researcher and coordinator of harm reduction-based services in British Columbia. 

Rebecca Hartley is a master’s student in history at Queen’s University. She graduated with a BA (Honours) in history and anthropology from the University of Victoria in 2022. Her research examines historical representations of the past produced by and for public audiences in twentieth-century Canada. She previously co-authored “Telling the Stories of Airwomen in the ‘Forgotten Decade’: 1952–1962” with Allan English in Canadian Military History 33, no. 2 (2024). 

Ben Sheriff recently earned his BA from Wesleyan University and is an incoming MPhil student at the University of Cambridge, which he will attend on a Keasbey Memorial Foundation Scholarship. His research interests include comparative empire, the nineteenth-century American West, and the historical strength of the American state. With Carol Sheriff, he is currently coauthoring a book manuscript tentatively entitled Schoolbook Politics in the Former Confederacy. 

Tyson Singh Kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿ ੰਘ is a social worker in k’emk’emeláy/ Vancouver, a researcher-member of P.O.W.E.R. (Police Oversight with Evidence and Research), and a PhD candidate in Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Health Sciences.

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.