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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.

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The Vancouver Island Project: Research, Resources, and Regional Studies

By Alan F.J. Artibise, Peter A. Baskerville, Chad M. Gaffield

BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | Page(s) 116-119

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Society, Place, Work: The BC Public Hospital for the Insane, 1872-1902

By Ken Scott

BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 93-110

employment hospitals mental health Gender chinese

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Doing Their “Home” Work: A Case Study of University of British Columbia Okanagan Student Youth Rental Housing Experiences in the City of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

By Carlos Teixeira and Jamie McEwan

BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 123-142

housing youth Kelowna Okanagan Valley

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch and Superintendent Henry A. Larsen: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography Authors

By Bradley P. Tolppanen

BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 147-170

Henry Larsen

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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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More letters of Edmund Verney

By Allan Pritchard

Colony of Vancouver Island Verney Edmund Hope

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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