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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
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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
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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
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Minnesota Seaside Station
As a nice compliment to Erik A. Moore and Rebecca Toov’s photo essay on “The Minnesota Seaside Station near Port Renfrew, British Columbia,€ BC Studies no. 187 check out Hakai Magazine’s video “Out of This...
May 12, 2016 | News
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BC MUSEUMS & GALLERIES: SFU Galleries – Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s The Templeton Five Affair, March 1967
by Barbara Matthews Could it be that the lessons of the street are exhausted, out-dated, and likewise the teachings of the window? Certainly not. They perpetuate themselves by renewing themselves. The windows overlooking the street...
May 12, 2016 | BC Museums & Galleries
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RECURRENT VOICES: Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag
Examining The Camel or One Inspiration For a Biography of a Canadian Viceregal Couple Privilege of whatever sort is readily corrosive of an ethics of care to others. This is the Christian message in Matthew...
May 10, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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RECURRENT VOICES: Sage Birchwater
Atlantic Power – Burning questions about railway ties Controversy is brewing over Atlantic Power Corporation’s bid to increase the volume of creosote-laden railway ties it is allowed to burn in its biomass-fired energy plant in...
May 5, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Pacific Wild
by Pacific Wild As far as we are concerned, when a new 2016 Great Bear Rainforest land-use order was legally established on January 28, 2016, the Heiltsuk Tribal Council won quote of the year with...
May 3, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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PLACES OF BC: Tracking more stories of the First World War
PLACES OF BC: Tracking more stories of the First World War By Greg Dickson and Mark Forsythe One of the most gratifying aspects of the publication of our book, From the West Coast to...
April 26, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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BC MUSEUMS & GALLERIES: Words and Pictures
Rare Books and Special Collections is delighted to present a new exhibition: Words & Pictures: Book Illustration in Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards Join us for a special celebration of the 80th anniversary of the...
April 26, 2016 | BC Museums & Galleries
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CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Every Place has a Story
CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Every Place has a Story by Eve Lazarus A reviewer once called my first book At Home with History (2007) an “entry level book.” He wasn’t being kind, but I loved...
April 21, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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BC VOICES: Chris Czajkowski
AND THE RIVER STILL SINGS by Chris Czajkowski And The River Still Sings is my eleventh and latest published book. All of the others document different segments of the wilderness life that I have more...
April 18, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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PLACES OF BC: Arbutus Corridor
After years of shouting across the tracks, Vancouver and CP conclude agreement over the Arbutus Corridor, and the Supreme Court of Canada deserves some credit by Doug Harris Ten years ago the Supreme Court of...
April 18, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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BC VOICES: Ronald Greene
Carlo Gentile, Gold Rush Photographer by Ronald Greene My journey started over twenty years ago when I was offered a photograph album that appeared to be the work of only one photographer, Carlo Gentile. This...
April 14, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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Congratulations Nancy Turner
BC Studies congratulates Nancy Turner on her winning of the 2016 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences by The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for her book, Ancient Patheways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom...
April 13, 2016 | News
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RECURRENT VOICES: Jean Barman
In praise of Ken Mather’s Chinese cowboys BC Studies’ mandate as a regional peer-reviewed journal gives it a unique opportunity to attend to a part of Canada all too often perceived as on the edge...
April 12, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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PLACES OF BC: Wells
Wells, BC: Cariboo Counterculture by Susan Safyan From the dreams of a lonely prospector grew the town of Wells, BC, now the location for one of the province’s best-loved music festivals. Fred Wells, a “raw-boned,...
April 7, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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BC Studies Prize announcement!
It is our pleasure to announce the winner and runner up of the inaugural BC Studies Prize. This award is for the article deemed to have made the greatest contribution to understanding British Columbia in the...
April 7, 2016 | News
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RECURRENT VOICES – Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag
99 Years and Counting What a difference a century, or almost, makes. 99 years ago, on 5 April 1917, the BC Legislature passed a woman suffrage bill. Suffragists had high hopes. And in 2016, BC...
April 5, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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BC MUSEUMS & GALLERIES: Anthony Shelton
by Anthony Shelton, Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. With continuing uncertainty over the future of Metro Vancouver’s art galleries and museums – the recent...
March 31, 2016 | BC Museums & Galleries
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BC VOICES: Barry Gough
Testaments to Youth: Schools and Empires of the Dead by Barry Gough, Victoria, BC Recently I read Empires of the Dead, by David Crane, all about Fabian Ware, the person who developed what became The...
March 29, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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PLACES OF BC: Along the Outer West Coast
by Christine Lowther They are all my babies, but each of my books had a different publisher. It’s not that I’m promiscuous, it’s just that my subjects and genres vary. Some of my offspring are...
March 24, 2016 | BC Places and Voices
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RECURRENT VOICES: Jean Barman
When we write a book It has been suggested I write a short reflection on my recent book, French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the the Pacific Northwest. When we write...
March 22, 2016 | BC Places and Voices