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June 21, 2016
Happy Aboriginal Day from the BC Studies blog! Check out some of the amazing events and celebrations going on...
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BC Places and Voices
BC VOICES: PART 1 – The Great Land Grab: Real Estate and Commuter Rail on Vancouver Island
June 20, 2016
By Kelly Black After years of questionable service and maintenance, it’s time to get serious about retaining...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Michael Kluckner
June 16, 2016
By Michael Kluckner I’ve always believed that I write in a neutral tone. “Mostly believed” is probably more accurate,...
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June 14, 2016
Spring is officially in full swing in BC, and so is the BC Studies blog!...
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PLACES OF BC: Follow-up on Botanical Beach – Minnesota Seaside Station
June 13, 2016
“Each summer from 1901 to 1907, groups of students and instructors ventured here from Minnesota, Ohio, Nebraska, and...
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CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Could Stopping Biodiversity Loss Be The Answer To All Our Problems?
June 8, 2016
This is a timely post, as today, June 8th, is World Oceans Day! By Michaela Montaner – Pacific Wild...
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PLACES OF BC: Behind The Scenes – Meet the GBR’s Biodiversity Mascots
June 6, 2016
By Michaela Montaner – Pacific Wild Photos by Ian McAllister Since inception, Pacific Wild has been pushing...
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BCHF Historical Writing Competition Winners
June 2, 2016
The British Columbia Historical Federation (BCHF) announced the winners for the Annual Historical Writing Competition at the BCHF Annual Conference on...
BC Places and Voices
June 1, 2016
The Minnesota Seaside Station Little known and visited, only by small groups of university students and their...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Doug King – Pivot Legal Society
May 31, 2016
In the Midst of a Mental Health Crisis, We are Failing Rural and Aboriginal Youth By Doug King, Pivot...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag
May 25, 2016
Every One A ‘Woman Worthy’ [1]: Commemoration on Canadian Currency Because it’s 2018, or soon will be—in other words,...
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PLACES OF BC: Born Outta This, Born Into That
May 24, 2016
By Christine Lowther After three collections of poetry, it was time for a prose project. Time to gather previously published...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Patrick Dunae
May 19, 2016
By Patrick A. Dunae The image of the ‘Little Man’ evokes the essence of the credit union movement in its...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Jonathan Swainger
May 17, 2016
Recent events — Toronto’s Black Lives Matter activism, the Truth and Reconciliation Report (TRC), Jian Ghomeshi’s trial and outcome,...
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Call for Papers: UVIC Faculty of Law and History
May 17, 2016
First Nations, Land, and James Douglas: Indigenous and Treaty Rights in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia,...
BC Museums & Galleries
May 12, 2016
by Barbara Matthews Could it be that the lessons of the street are exhausted, out-dated, and likewise the teachings...
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May 12, 2016
As a nice compliment to Erik A. Moore and Rebecca Toov’s photo essay on “The Minnesota Seaside Station near...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag
May 10, 2016
Examining The Camel or One Inspiration For a Biography of a Canadian Viceregal Couple Privilege of whatever sort is...
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RECURRENT VOICES: Sage Birchwater
May 5, 2016
Atlantic Power – Burning questions about railway ties Controversy is brewing over Atlantic Power Corporation’s bid to increase the...
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CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Pacific Wild
May 3, 2016
by Pacific Wild As far as we are concerned, when a new 2016 Great Bear Rainforest land-use order was...
BC Museums & Galleries
BC MUSEUMS & GALLERIES: Words and Pictures
April 26, 2016
Rare Books and Special Collections is delighted to present a new exhibition: Words & Pictures: Book Illustration in Canada’s...
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PLACES OF BC: Tracking more stories of the First World War
April 26, 2016
PLACES OF BC: Tracking more stories of the First World War By Greg Dickson and Mark Forsythe One...
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CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Every Place has a Story
April 21, 2016
CURRENT FINDINGS IN BC: Every Place has a Story by Eve Lazarus A reviewer once called my first book...
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April 18, 2016
AND THE RIVER STILL SINGS by Chris Czajkowski And The River Still Sings is my eleventh and latest published...