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BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024

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BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024

Featuring cover artwork by Kelly Cannell.

This issue includes ARTICLES by Nicholas Bradley, Jesse Morin and Aaron Blake Evans,  a CASE COMMENT by James Hickling, and a RESEARCH NOTE by Letian Wang.  To read the issue online, visit our OJS site.

This issue will be open access 2026-02-25

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In This Issue

Contributors

Nicholas Bradley is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches courses in Canadian literature and environmental writing. His books include the edited collection An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy after a Century (2020) and Before Combustion (2023), a volume of poems.

Aaron Blake Evans graduated with a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from Simon Fraser University and continues to work with Indigenous communities supporting litigation, specific claims, and other rights and title issues. This work includes extensive archival research, oral history interviews, traditional use study interviews, report writing, and cultural revitalization projects. Since 2004, Aaron Blake Evans has included cultural heritage, archaeological, and culturally modified tree surveys as part of his work with Indigenous communities, industry, and government.

James Hickling, MSc, LLB (UBC) BCL (Oxon), is a practising lawyer and independent scholar based in Vancouver. He was gold medalist at UBC Law School, clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for
Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci, and attended Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to Vancouver and developing specializations in law relating to environment, natural resources, energy, and Indigenous rights. He leads engagement in regulatory processes and negotiations on major natural resource projects, teaches Law 392 – Natural Resources Law at UBC as an adjunct professor, and is completing his PhD dissertation on the history of biodiversity law (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge).

Jesse Morin is an archaeologist and ethnohistorian who specializes in the prehistory and stone tools of Salishan peoples. He works for Tsleil-Waututh Nation, K’ómoks First Nation, and Takla Nation in support of their assertions of rights and title and management of their cultural heritage. Morin is an adjunct professor at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and SFU’s Department of Archaeology and lives with his family in Comox on Vancouver Island.

Letian Wang is a master’s student in history at Simon Fraser University. His research explores the complex dynamics between the Chinese and Japanese communities in early 20th-century Vancouver. Wang approaches Asian Canadian history through a lens that extends beyond conventional narratives of confrontation and interaction between the dominant society and individual Asian groups. His broader academic interests focus on the interactions among various racialized settler/migrant groups and Indigenous Peoples. He is particularly interested in uncovering the often-overlooked intersection of settler colonialism and anti-Asian racism.

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