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Research Notes

Short essays, research stories, or works in progress attending to diverse knowledge practices, political projects, alliances and/or engagements in any field of research.

Results (16)

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Minerals for War: British Columbia’s Production of Mercury and Tungsten in World War Two

By Robert George McCandless

BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 93-108

mining Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (CM&S) defence weapons and munitions

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In Search for the Lost Chinese Canadian Story: A Review and Research Note for The Diary of Dukesang Wong

By Zhongping Chen

BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 79-91

historiography human geography immigration chinese

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Letter from the Interior: James Teit and the “Injustice of Displacement”

By Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Page(s) 127-134

anthropology historiography James Teit

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Arrested Development: The Saga of a “Sustainable” Planned Village on Salt Spring Island, 1985–2016

By J.I. Little

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 101-119

housing real estate urbanization Gulf Islands

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The Murakami Women of Saltspring Island

By Brian Smallshaw

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 183-204

Japanese Canadian internment agriculture Gulf Islands

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The Soyokaze: A Gentle Wind That Weathered the Storm

By Beth Boyce

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 171-182

museums Japanese Canadian internment fishing industry Campbell River

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Lifting the Veil on Nanaimo’s Nikkei Community: From Settlement to Return

By Masako Fukawa

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 151-170

Japanese Canadian internment japanese people fishing industry

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The Cruise of the Steel Steamer: SS Beaver on the Lower Fraser River Route, 1898-1926

By Trevor Williams

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 131-146

ships and shipbuilding rivers Fraser River

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The Minor Transpacific: A Roundtable Discussion

By Phanuel Antwi, Nadine Attewell, Beng Huat Chua, John Nguyet Erni, Christine Kim, Joanne Leow, Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Jia Tan, Chih-ming Wang, Audrey Yue

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 13-26

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Research Note – Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)

By Alix Shield

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 107-121

publishing and publishers myths and stories

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The Archaeology of 1858 in the Fraser Canyon

By Brian Pegg

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 67-87

colonization gold rush military history Nlakapamux Fraser Canyon

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The Future of the Local Yarn Store

By Bonita I. Russell, Jo’Anne Yearley, Hilary M. Russell

BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 111-122

trade and commerce

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British Columbia Marine Fisheries Catch Reconstruction, 1873 to 2011

By Cameron Ainsworth

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 81-90

sustainability fishing industry British Columbia

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An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Jar from the Queen Charlotte Islands

By Hector Williams, Tom Beasley, David Huntley, William Newton

archaeology Queen Charlotte Islands Spain

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The 2011 Vancouver Riot and the Role of Facebook in Crowd-Sourced Policing

By Christopher J. Schneider, Dan Trottier

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 57-72

facebook social media crime police and policing Vancouver

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More letters of Edmund Verney

By Allan Pritchard

Colony of Vancouver Island Verney Edmund Hope