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BC VOICES: The Return of the Midden!
The Return of the Midden! by Jacob Earnshaw, President of the Archaeological Society of British Columbia (ASBC) The above articles are archived issues from the Archaeological Society of British Columbia’s journal, The Midden....
July 14, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: Tsunami and coseismic events – PART 2 of Evolving perspectives on the Pacific-North American plate boundary near Haida Gwaii, BC
Tsunami and coseismic events By Sean Mullan Shortly after the 2012 Haida Gwaii quake, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s issue of a Tsunami warning led to the coastal evacuation...
July 11, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Archaeological Prospection on the Pacific Northwest Coast (Quadra Island)
By Alex Lausanne Archaeological prospecting is inhibited by many factors on the Pacific Northwest coast. Changing sea levels, the dense rainforest canopy and thick sediment layers obscure the buried archaeological record and...
July 7, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: SEAN MULLAN – PART 1 – Evolving perspectives on the Pacific-North American plate boundary near Haida Gwaii, BC
By Sean Mullan On October 27th, 2012 a moment magnitude (Mw = 7.8) earthquake occurred off Moresby Island, Haida Gwaii, BC. This was the second largest Canadian earthquake ever instrumentally measured. The largest recorded Canadian...
July 5, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
PLACES OF BC: Walbran Valley
By Kirsten Mathison A few weekends ago, I went to the Walbran Valley on a quest to find caves in the extensive karst regions in the area. It is an unprotected tract of old-growth...
June 30, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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Wishing Graeme Wynn farewell!
Today we bid farewell to Graeme Wynn who is retiring from UBC and stepping down as the Editor of BC Studies after a remarkable eight years. During his tenure, Graeme moved BC Studies from a...
June 30, 2016 | News
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BC VOICES: PART 2 – The Great Land Grab: The Expansion of Settler Colonialism
By Kelly Black Rapid growth on southern Vancouver Island and an obstinate commitment to fossil fuels demand serious consideration of passenger and freight services by rail. Driving north from Victoria, it is immediately evident...
June 28, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: National Energy Board Accepts Trans-Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project
By Lee Britton Oil spills in Puget Sound and the Salish Sea have become a public concern as oil and gas exportation has increased in recent years and is projected to continue to do so...
June 23, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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National Aboriginal Day
Happy Aboriginal Day from the BC Studies blog! Check out some of the amazing events and celebrations going on across BC. Below is link to the events happening today in Prince George, at Lheidlt T’enneh...
June 21, 2016 | News
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BC VOICES: PART 1 – The Great Land Grab: Real Estate and Commuter Rail on Vancouver Island
By Kelly Black After years of questionable service and maintenance, it’s time to get serious about retaining the E&N rail corridor for future rail service. It is well past due, however, that we...
June 20, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: Michael Kluckner
By Michael Kluckner I’ve always believed that I write in a neutral tone. “Mostly believed” is probably more accurate, as a book called Paving Paradise that I wrote in 1991 was pretty much a rant...
June 16, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
A Note from the Blog Curator
Spring is officially in full swing in BC, and so is the BC Studies blog! With over 30 posts since the blog’s inception in January, it has been a tremendous ‘first...
June 14, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
PLACES OF BC: Follow-up on Botanical Beach – Minnesota Seaside Station
“Each summer from 1901 to 1907, groups of students and instructors ventured here from Minnesota, Ohio, Nebraska, and other midwestern states. They traveled by train, cooking meals on a small stove in their rail...
June 13, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Could Stopping Biodiversity Loss Be The Answer To All Our Problems?
This is a timely post, as today, June 8th, is World Oceans Day! By Michaela Montaner – Pacific Wild Photos by Ian McAllister As habitat destruction continues in and around the otherwise pristine Great Bear...
June 8, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
PLACES OF BC: Behind The Scenes – Meet the GBR’s Biodiversity Mascots
By Michaela Montaner – Pacific Wild Photos by Ian McAllister Since inception, Pacific Wild has been pushing to protect the biodiversity the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR) represents. Lucky for us, we have some...
June 6, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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BCHF Historical Writing Competition Winners
The British Columbia Historical Federation (BCHF) announced the winners for the Annual Historical Writing Competition at the BCHF Annual Conference on May 28th. Many of the titles have been reviewed in BC Studies. The Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing...
June 2, 2016 | News
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PLACES OF BC: Botanical Beach
The Minnesota Seaside Station Little known and visited, only by small groups of university students and their instructors over the last century or so, Botanical Beach and the Field Station established there by...
June 1, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: Doug King – Pivot Legal Society
In the Midst of a Mental Health Crisis, We are Failing Rural and Aboriginal Youth By Doug King, Pivot Legal Society Pivot was formed more than a decade ago in the face of a health...
May 31, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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RECURRENT VOICES: Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag
Every One A ‘Woman Worthy’ [1]: Commemoration on Canadian Currency Because it’s 2018, or soon will be—in other words, a hundred years after Ottawa deigned to enfranchise most but not all Canadian women in the...
May 25, 2016 | News
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PLACES OF BC: Born Outta This, Born Into That
By Christine Lowther After three collections of poetry, it was time for a prose project. Time to gather previously published essays and personal narratives with new work, consolidate, add, polish and refresh, and see what kind...
May 24, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: Patrick Dunae
By Patrick A. Dunae The image of the ‘Little Man’ evokes the essence of the credit union movement in its formative years and was used in BC from the 1940s until the 1970s. Protected from a...
May 19, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: Jonathan Swainger
Recent events — Toronto’s Black Lives Matter activism, the Truth and Reconciliation Report (TRC), Jian Ghomeshi’s trial and outcome, in addition to the Trudeau government’s anticipated House of Common’s Komagata Maru apology — demonstrate that...
May 17, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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Call for Papers: UVIC Faculty of Law and History
First Nations, Land, and James Douglas: Indigenous and Treaty Rights in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 1849-1864 The Songhees Nation and the University of Victoria Faculty of Law and History Department invite...
May 17, 2016 | News