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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,...
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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...
BC Places and Voices
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...
BC Places and Voices
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...
BC Places and Voices
April 18, 2016
AND THE RIVER STILL SINGS by Chris Czajkowski And The River Still Sings is my eleventh and latest published...
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PLACES OF BC: Arbutus Corridor
April 18, 2016
After years of shouting across the tracks, Vancouver and CP conclude agreement over the Arbutus Corridor, and the Supreme...
BC Places and Voices
April 14, 2016
Carlo Gentile, Gold Rush Photographer by Ronald Greene My journey started over twenty years ago when I was offered...
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April 13, 2016
BC Studies congratulates Nancy Turner on her winning of the 2016 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences by The Federation for...
BC Places and Voices
April 12, 2016
In praise of Ken Mather’s Chinese cowboys BC Studies’ mandate as a regional peer-reviewed journal gives it a unique...
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April 7, 2016
Wells, BC: Cariboo Counterculture by Susan Safyan From the dreams of a lonely prospector grew the town of Wells,...
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BC Studies Prize announcement!
April 7, 2016
It is our pleasure to announce the winner and runner up of the inaugural BC Studies Prize. This award...
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES – Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag
April 5, 2016
99 Years and Counting What a difference a century, or almost, makes. 99 years ago, on 5 April 1917,...
BC Museums & Galleries
BC MUSEUMS & GALLERIES: Anthony Shelton
March 31, 2016
by Anthony Shelton, Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia....
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March 29, 2016
Testaments to Youth: Schools and Empires of the Dead by Barry Gough, Victoria, BC Recently I read Empires of...
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PLACES OF BC: Along the Outer West Coast
March 24, 2016
by Christine Lowther They are all my babies, but each of my books had a different publisher. It’s not...
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March 22, 2016
When we write a book It has been suggested I write a short reflection on my recent book, French...
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BC Studies at the Legislative Assembly
March 22, 2016
BC Studies was mentioned in the BC Legislature when Adrian Dix spoke during the second reading of the bill to...
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PLACES OF BC: Slocan Postcards
March 17, 2016
Slocan Postcards Former BC Studies editor and now UBC Professor Emeritus Cole Harris is busy in his “retirement” sending...
BC Places and Voices
RECURRENT VOICES: Sage Birchwater
March 1, 2016
Think Globally, Act Locally – Principles of Addressing Climate Change Climate change touches all of us in different ways....