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A Colonial Library: The Books in the Point Ellice House Collection

Point Ellice House, Pleasant Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

Sovereign Graffiti on Haida Gwaii

Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada

Streamwalkers

Broughton Archipelago

Doctrine and Design: Two Islamic Centres in Burnaby, Canada

Burnaby, BC, Canada

What Sound Can Do: Listening with Memory

Prince George, BC, Canada

The Coffee-Office: Urban Soundscapes for Creative Productivity

120 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Natural Complexities of Environmental Listening: One Soundwalk – Multiple Responses, by Hildegard Westerkamp

Fort Nelson, BC, Canada

“In the Empire she loved so well”: The Women’s Canadian Club and the Writing of The Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Archaeology of an Early Twentieth-Century Nikkei Camp in the Seymour Valley

Seymour Valley Trailway, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Minnesota Seaside Station near Port Renfrew, British Columbia

Port Renfrew, BC, Canada

John Olmsted’s Uplands: “Victoria’s Celebrated Residential Park”

Victoria Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The Vilest Verse West of Blanca: Canadian Poets in The Ubyssey

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Historical Ecology, the Loss of Salmonids, and the Transformation of Coast Salish Culture

Tsleil-Waututh Cultural and Recreation Centre, Sleil-Waututh Rd, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Kitsilano Scandal: The Destruction of Sen̓áḵw As Told in Local Newspapers, 1913-16

Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Challenging the Presupposition of Rural Inferiority through Adaptive Capacity: Community Economic Development in the Keremeos Area of British Columbia

Keremeos, BC, Canada

The ‘Wasting’ Resource: The History of Mine Tailings Disposal in British Columbia, 1892–1982

Mount Polley, Cariboo, BC, Canada

Damming Colonial Evasion: An Accounting of the Unaccountable in the Mount Polley Mine Disaster

Mount Polley, Cariboo, BC, Canada

“You think I will bring my children here?”: The Mount Polley Mine Disaster as a Necropolitical Human Rights Environmental Disaster

Mount Polley, Cariboo, BC, Canada

Regulating the Mount Polley Mine Disaster: Neoliberalism, Objectivity, and Settler-Colonialism in British Columbia

Mount Polley, Cariboo, BC, Canada

Beyond Contentious Collective Action: Assessing Quiet Forms of Environmental Mobilization in Rural British Columbia

Mount Polley, Cariboo, BC, Canada

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A Colonial Library: The Books in the Point Ellice House Collection

By Misao Dean

archives colonialism O'Reilly Family Point Ellice House Victoria

BC Studies no. 225 Spring 2025 pp. 11-34

photo essay

Sovereign Graffiti on Haida Gwaii

By Hilary Morgan V. Leathem and Joseph Weiss

Haida Gwaii photography protest protest

BC Studies no. 214 Summer 2022 pp. 9-27

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soundwork

By Jenni Schine

conservation environment new media rivers salmon sound recordings

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary pp. 123-124

photo essay

Doctrine and Design: Two Islamic Centres in Burnaby, Canada

By Hussein Keshani

architecture Muslims/Islam religion Vancouver

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 pp. 37-80

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soundwork

What Sound Can Do: Listening with Memory

By Megan Robertson

sound recordings

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 pp. 101-106

soundwork

The Coffee-Office: Urban Soundscapes for Creative Productivity

By Milena Droumeva

The Coffee-Office

The Coffee-Office

architecture labour force

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 pp. 119-127

soundwork

The Natural Complexities of Environmental Listening: One Soundwalk – Multiple Responses, by Hildegard Westerkamp

By Hildegard Westerkamp

environment environment

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 pp. 149-162

article

“In the Empire she loved so well”: The Women’s Canadian Club and the Writing of The Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island

By Rebecca Hartley

Annie de Bertrand Lugrin feminism settler colonialism women

BC Studies no. 225 Spring 2025 pp. 35-58

photo essay

Archaeology of an Early Twentieth-Century Nikkei Camp in the Seymour Valley

By Robert Muckle

archaeology archaeology housing housing housing japanese people logging logging logging Vancouver

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 pp. 125-148

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photo essay

The Minnesota Seaside Station near Port Renfrew, British Columbia

By Erik A. Moore, Rebecca Toov

photography ships and ship building

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 pp. 291-302

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photo essay

John Olmsted’s Uplands: “Victoria’s Celebrated Residential Park”

By Larry McCann

architecture city planning photography Uplands Victoria

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 pp. 11-37

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The Vilest Verse West of Blanca: Canadian Poets in The Ubyssey

By Nicholas Bradley

literature newspapers poetry University of British Columbia

BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024 pp. 15-41

article

The Historical Ecology, the Loss of Salmonids, and the Transformation of Coast Salish Culture

By Jesse Morin and Aaron Blake Evans

Coast Salish prehistory salmon Tsleil-Waututh

BC Studies no. 223 Autumn 2024 pp. 43-79

article

The Kitsilano Scandal: The Destruction of Sen̓áḵw As Told in Local Newspapers, 1913-16

By Mayana C. Slobodian

Indian Reserves Kitsilano land policies land settlement newspapers

BC Studies no. 222 Summer 2024 pp. 71-99

article

Challenging the Presupposition of Rural Inferiority through Adaptive Capacity: Community Economic Development in the Keremeos Area of British Columbia

By Jeff Shemilt and Tamara Krawchenko

economic development resource towns sustainability Syilx

BC Studies no. 222 Summer 2024 pp. 101-125

article

The ‘Wasting’ Resource: The History of Mine Tailings Disposal in British Columbia, 1892–1982

By Arn Keeling and Nolan Foster

disaster response geography mining Mount Polley Mine pollution control settler colonialism

BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 59-81

article

Damming Colonial Evasion: An Accounting of the Unaccountable in the Mount Polley Mine Disaster

By Shianna McAllister

disaster response government control mining Mount Polley Mine Secwepemc

BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 83-106

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“You think I will bring my children here?”: The Mount Polley Mine Disaster as a Necropolitical Human Rights Environmental Disaster

By Norah Bowman and Tara Scurr

disaster response human geography mining Mount Polley Mine pollution control

BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 107-133

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Regulating the Mount Polley Mine Disaster: Neoliberalism, Objectivity, and Settler-Colonialism in British Columbia

By Neil Nunn and Anna Stanley

disaster response industries mining mining Mount Polley Mine trade and commerce

BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 135-160

article

Beyond Contentious Collective Action: Assessing Quiet Forms of Environmental Mobilization in Rural British Columbia

By Max Chewinski

disaster response letter writing mining Mount Polley Mine protest

BC Studies no. 221 Spring 2024 pp. 161-183

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We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.