Review Essays

Reflections on the Surface of the Pond

Rubber Boots for Dancing and other Memories of Pioneer Life in the Bulkley Valley

Review by Cole Harris

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BC Studies no. 49 Spring 1981 | Pages 79-85

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Local History, Local Colour

Bella Coola

The Nootka Connection: Europe and the Northwest Coast, 1790-1795

A Pour of Rain: Stories from a West Coast Fort

Review by Gordon R. Elliott

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BC Studies no. 51 Autumn 1981 | Pages 63-84

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The World is as Sharp as a Knife

Review by Wayne Suttles

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BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | Page(s) 82-91

Bill Holm, Willie Seaweed and the Problem of Northwest Coast Indian “Art”

Review by Michael M. Ames

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BC Studies no. 64 Winter 1984-1985 | Page(s) 74-81

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The Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

Review by Christon I. Archer

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BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 43-61

Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest Coast (volume 7)

Review by Anne Goodfellow

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BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 185-191

Determining Okanagan History

Review by Elizabeth Vibert

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BC Studies no. 96 Winter 1992-1993 | Page(s) 110-114

“Reading” Rock Art: One Sense/Many Senses

Review by Wendy Wickwire, Michael M'Gonigle

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BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 75-93

Writing Religion into the History of British Columbia: A Review Essay

No Better Land: The 1860 Diaries of the Anglican Colonial Bishop George Hills

Catalysts and Watchdogs: BC's Men of God, 1836-1871

Review by Gail Edwards

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BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Pages 101-105

Mining the Rush: Recent Publications Relating to the Klondike Gold Rush

Trail to the Klondike

The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-1899

Paddlewheelers of Alaska and the Yukon

Southeast Alaska: Early Photographs of the Great Land

Review by Charlene Porsild

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BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Pages 91-94

Metis Lives Past and Present

I Knew Two Metis Women: The Lives of Dorothy Scofield and Georgina Houle Young

Thunder through My Veins: Memories of a Metis Childhood

Review by Heather Devine

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BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Pages 85-90

Comox Students

Blazing Paddles: Historical Fiction of British Columbia

Review by Tom Morton

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BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Pages 81-83

Trickster’s Turn: New Books on Bill Reid

Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

Review by Gerta Moray

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BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Pages 93-100

“From Sea and Cedar to Concrete Sidewalks” A Review Essay by Judith Saltman

Review by Judith Saltman

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BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 103-111

COMMENTARY: Glaciers Listen: A Review Essay and Response to Cole Harris

Review by Dorothee Schreiber

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BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 131-139

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“Pioneering” Women: Tales of Female Settler Colonialism in BC

By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer

Boom and Bust: The Resilient Women of Historic Telegraph Cove

Against the Current: The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron

Review by Sally Mennill

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BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Pages 115-121

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A Weaving of Books; What Basket Have We Made?

People among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point

Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Have Been Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry

Review by Roger Fernandes

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BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | Pages 135-140

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Film Review: c’ə snaʔəm: the city before the city

Review by Tyler Hagan

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BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 135-138

Survivance, Signs, and Media Art Histories: New Temporalities and Productive Tensions in Dana Claxton’s Made to Be Ready

Review by Julia Polyck-O'Neill

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BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 129-244

The Quest for the “Real” Franz Boas

Review by Wendy Wickwire

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BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 173-195

History and Memory of the Great War

The Great War: From Memory to History

Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Review by James Wood

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BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Pages 123-132

Forest$ustainability: A Rumination on the Once and Future Forests of British Columbia, Provoked by Five Books and a Screenplay

Ground-Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC’s North Coast

Big Trees Saved and Other Feats: e Story of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society

Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees and Forest Practices

Review by Graeme Wynn

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BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 115-131

The Long Question of Food and Land

The Light through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming

Ginty’s Ghost: A Wilderness Dweller’s Dream

Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America

Review by James Murton

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BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Pages 125-138

BC Narratives of the Great War: Home, Home Away, Loss, and Hope

Review by James A. Wood

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BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 177-204