History Of British Columbia Research Articles

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 Bruce Curtis, PhD, FRHistS, FRSC, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Among his recent contributions to the field of educational historiography are “Priority, politics and pedagogical science. Part I: the mental steam-engine” and “Priority, politics and pedagogical science. Part II: the priority dispute and a standard model of pedagogy,” both in Paedagogica Historica 52, no. 6 (2016), and Ruling by Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality. A Historical Sociology (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).
 Détentrice d’un doctorat en histoire, Andrée Dufour a enseigné au cégep et à l’université pendant plus de vingt ans. Outre de nombreux articles sur l’histoire de l’éducation au Québec, on lui doit les ouvrages, Tous à l’école, Histoire de l’éducation au Québec et avec M. Dumont, Brève histoire des institutrices au Québec de la Nouvelle-France à nos jours. Maintenant retraitée, elle assume la codirection de l’Atlas historique, l’École au Québec qui paraîtra prochainement aux Presses de l’Université Laval.
 James Miles is a PhD Candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His doctoral research examines the relationship between history education and campaigns to redress historical injustices in Canada, and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
 Gerald Thomson, PhD, now retired, has worked as a special education teacher (Surrey School District #36), sessional lecturer in history of education in British Columbia (UBC Educational Studies), and professor of history of British Columbia (Kwantlen Polytechnic University History Faculty). He worked several summers at Woodlands School for special needs children and several years in Crease Clinic at Riverview Mental Hospital (formerly Essondale) on the nursing staff. Dr. Thomson has published numerous articles on the history of special education, the testing movement and mental hygiene in British Columbia in HSE-RHÉ, BC Studies, and BC History Magazine. He welcomes feedback and can be contacted at: gerald.t@telus.net.
 
 

Review: Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy by Lisa Pasolli

Book Review| May 01 2017 Review: Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy by Lisa Pasolli Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy. By Lisa Pasolli. (Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2015. xi+ 270.) Rachel Langford Rachel Langford Ryerson University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2017) 86 (2): 330–331. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2017.86.2.330 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rachel Langford; Review: Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy by Lisa Pasolli. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2017; 86 (2): 330–331. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2017.86.2.330 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2017 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Higher educational institutions as emerging immigrant selection actors: a history of British Columbia’s retention of international graduates, 2001–2016

ABSTRACTIn an effort to more efficiently utilize immigration to mitigate the negative economic impacts of falling population rates, some governments are shifting from human-capital to demand-driven immigrant selection approaches. While employers are typically seen as the resulting non-governmental selection actors, recent niche but growing immigration programs are repositioning higher educational institutions as additional yet inadvertent selection actors, typically unaware of their role. To illustrate the complexities inherent in this policy evolution, I historically trace the past 15 years of immigration selection design targeting international students in the Canadian province of British Columbia and highlight potential implications in light of increasing internationalization. I argue that educational policy researchers need to further understand and engage with the development of increasingly intertwined yet previously neglected policy areas – in this instance, immigration – as higher education assumes new roles in public life.

Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia's Social Policy by Lisa Pasolli

Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia's Social Policy by Lisa Pasolli

The political ecology of hegemony in depression-era British Columbia, Canada: Masculinities, work and the production of the forestscape

This article attempts to empirically demonstrate how the struggle for bourgeois hegemony in depression-era British Columbia, Canada, was fought for through the production of new natures. Bringing together Antonio Gramsci’s conceptualization of hegemony with marxist understandings of political ecology, I examine how the legitimacy of particular groups’ dominance over subordinate groups and the survival of specific social relations was built and contested through the (re)making of the material-symbolic landscape. However, I also take seriously Stuart Hall’s argument that we must take note of the multi-dimensional character of hegemony by paying attention to the entanglement of class, gender and ecological relations during the 1930s. In order to demonstrate these arguments I examine the economic, social, moral and ecological crisis that rippled across the socionatural fabric of B.C. during the depression years. I detail how the federal and provincial states responded to the interlaced crises of class, gender and ecological relations through launching a series of public works programs and training programs. These projects were intended to modernize the forestry industry and remake unemployed men in body and soul. In doing so, I demonstrate how ideologies regarding nature come to be both enrolled in the struggle for hegemony and materialized in the making of the forestscape. By weaving theoretical insights through the socionatural history of British Columbia, I demonstrate how a gramscian sensibility pushes us to take seriously the relationality of socionatural processes and the embededdness of concepts in material histories.

Review: Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia's North Coast, 1870-2005 by Richard A. Rajala

Review: Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia's North Coast, 1870-2005 By Richard A. Rajala Reviewed by Jan Kunnas European University Institute, Firenze, Italy Richard A. Rajala. Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia's North Coast, 1870-2005. Victoria, Canada: Royal BC Museum, 2006. 294 pp. Hardbound. ISBN: 0-7726-5460-3. $US49.95. [Richard A. Rajala. Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation. Vancouver: UBC Press, June 1998. 286 pp. Paperback. ISBN 0-7748-0591-9. $US 24.95] In Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, Richard A. Rajala explored the roots of the deforestation crisis in the Douglas fir regions of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. In Up- Coast, the geographical scope is restricted to British Columbia's central and north coast from the Seymor inlet in the south to the Cassiar District in the North, and the Queen Charlotte Islands. The time scope, however, is prolonged from 1870 to early 2005. My original intent was to review only the most recently published of the books, but due to their complementary character, it seemed worthwhile to combine them for the sake of the review. The back cover of the new work promises that: Up-Coast presents the first comprehensive history of British Columbia's central-and-north-coast forest industry. This would, of course, be impossible for such a long time span (135 years) within less than 300 pages. Wisely, Rajala concentrates on one aspect, in this case wood procurement for the needs of the forest industry, starting from the first commercial sawmill on the north coast in operation by 1874, and ending with the needs of giant pulp-and-paper firms. For example, water pollution gets only a few lines of attention while the effects of forestry practices on salmon spawning grounds gets a bit more. Even so, every page of the book is fully packed with information, as Rajala takes us through several boom-and-bust cycles in the forest industry. We learn how the World Wars and, especially, how the need for airplane spruces affected the forest; we take a trip along the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and a boat trip with the International Woodworkers of America's Loggers' Navy. The book also works as a social history of the district, including both First Nations and other forest- or forestry-dependent local communities. I, and other readers not familiar with North American logging practices, would certainly need to read more about different logging and transporting methods presented in the book. Fortunately many of these are presented in detail in Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest. Now I know what a steam-donkey is, or how a cable logging system works. (I still, however, do not know how an A-frame works.) Up-Coast has a clear lesson for all resource-rich but capital-poor countries or regions. Providing cheap resources for companies to attract investments does not automatically generate welfare for the people and communities in the region, at least not in the long run. One of the reasons is that new labor-saving technology constantly eats up the employment benefits of increased production and logging. Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest concentrates on technology advances in logging operations, and how they transformed logging into an industrial operation. We also learn how flawed research supporting large- scale clear cutting survived as the results were convenient for short time industrial interests. Neither of the books are easy reads due to their massive amounts of detailed information, but both are well worth the effort. My only real reason for complaint is the use of endnotes instead of footnotes, which creates a lot of flipping back and forth. Luckily, in the endnotes for Clearcutting, each page heading clearly showed to which pages in the main text the notes referred, a nice feature which unfortunately was missing from the newer work.

Reconsidering Emily Carr

Gerta Moray. Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Cart. Vancouver: UBC Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. 386 pp. Illustrations. Bibliographic essay. Index. $75.00 hc. Donald Ellis, ed. Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection. Dundas, ON: Donald Ellis Gallery; Vancouver: Douglas and McIntryre; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 144 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. $55.00 hc. Charles C. Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom, curators. Essays by Jay Steward and Peter Macnair et al. Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2006. 336 pp. Illustrations. Works in the Exhibition. Bibliography. $75.00 hc. Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr evolves out of Gerta Moray's doctoral dissertation, Northwest Coast Native Culture and the Early Indian Paintings of Emily Carr, 1899-1913 (University of Toronto, 1993). Marcia Crosby, a writer and historian of Tsimshian and Haida ancestry--as well as the grand-daughter of Clara and William Russ, whose portraits Carr painted in 1928--wrote the foreword. The Russes were, as Crosby notes, Cart's guides in 1912 to some of the Haida villages, the people she fictively named 'Jimmie and Louise,' each story titled by the names of places where they'd taken her to paint: 'Tampp,' 'Skedans,' and 'Cumshewa' (vi). They were also her hosts sixteen years later when she returned on a second northern expedition to paint in Haida Gwaii (vi). Carr wrote to Marius Barbeau in 1928 about her intended trip, want to get back, even if the poles are all gone I want to get the feel of the places again (291). The choice of Crosby to write a foreword for Moray's book is symptomatic of our times. It is a respectful response to sentiments, which Crosby voices, that aboriginal memories and perspectives are not foregrounded sufficiently in the telling of Canadian history/art history: Whether the questions Moray raises in her book will bring its readers closer to listening to First Nations' viewpoints about colonial history or Carr remains to be seen. But through Moray's text, I recognize Cart more clearly in a context I know and understand: race relations and the colonial and patriarchal history of British Columbia and Canada (vi). Moray herself pays tribute to E.S. Said when she observes that he has opened up a rich vein of exploration, showing how literary, scholarly, and political discourse on non-western cultures obeyed the thought structures, wishes and fantasies of the dominant West (3, 5). Moray divides her book into three parts. In part 1 she traces the course of white settlement along the British Columbia coast and its consequences for aboriginal peoples. She also explains the Victoria and Vancouver context in which Carr's life was lived, as well as Carr's own family history. Repeatedly Moray feels obliged to forgive Carr for what today must be seen as patronizing attitudes--among them, her belief that by recording the Indian totems she was somehow rescuing a dying culture. Nevertheless, Moray maintains repeatedly that Carr was more sensitive than her contemporaries to the plight of Aboriginal peoples and decidedly more appreciative of their artistic production. Such claims are made on the basis of limited and even questionable evidence. For example, Moray tells us that Carr went on her painting and sketching adventures without benefit of a camera. One really must question Carr's wisdom here, and ask Moray if this is truly evidence of cultural sensitivity, as she implies, or a bad idea on the part of someone who conscientiously wants to record Indian totems? In fact, as Moray subsequently tells us, Carr relied on others' photographs from time to time as visual guidelines for some of her paintings. Cart also appropriated Indian designs for her own pottery which she sold as tourist trinkets. …

The Illustrated History of British Columbia (review)

The Illustrated History of British Columbia. Terry Reksten. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005. Pp. 280, illus., b&w, $40.00

Mapping "region" in Canadian medical history: the case of British Columbia.

The notion of "region" can be a valuable analytical tool in the writing of Canadian medical history. This article explores themes in the history of British Columbia that link medicine and regional development. Employing a historiographical sweep from the colonial period to the 1970s, the author considers doctors and imperialism, medical practice and the economy, and the relationship between metropolis and periphery in shaping medical institutions and medical culture in the western province. The intent of the piece is to stimulate thought about the potential of introducing the sense of place into regional medical history in Canada.

Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia

Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia

Review: Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia, by Jeremy Mouat

Book Review| November 01 1996 Review: Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia, by Jeremy Mouat Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British ColumbiaJeremy Mouat Otis E. Young,, Jr. Otis E. Young,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (4): 677–678. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640312 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Otis E. Young,; Review: Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia, by Jeremy Mouat. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 1996; 65 (4): 677–678. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3640312 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1996 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Roaring days: Rossland's mines and the history of British Columbia

Illustrations, Figures and Maps Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Context of Discovery 2. 'The Hope of This Country': Smelters, Railways, and the Growth of Rossland, 1895-8 3. 'The Comstock and the Rand Put Together': British Investment in Rossland 4. Miners and Early Industrial Relations in the Kootenays, 1895-1900 5. 'This Militant Band of Labour's Bravest Champions': Rossland Miners, 1899-1903 6. Social Relations in Fin de Siecle Rossland 7. The Emergence and Growth of Cominco, 1901-23 8. The End of the Roaring Days Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia

Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia

The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. By Jean Barman. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1991. xx + 429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, references, index. $35.00

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. By Jean Barman. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1991. xx + 429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, references, index. $35.00Keith D. GehrKeith D. Gehr Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 37, Number 3July 1993 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3983755 Journal History This article was published in Forest & Conservation History (1990-1995), which is continued by Environmental History (1996-present). © 1993 Forest History Society, Inc. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

<sc>Jean Barman</sc>. <italic>The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia</italic>. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1991. Pp. x, 428. $35.00

Jean Barman. The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1991. Pp. x, 428. $35.00 Get access Barman Jean. The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1992. Pp. x, 428. $35.00. David J. Hall David J. Hall University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 97, Issue 3, June 1992, Pages 963–964, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/97.3.963 Published: 01 June 1992

The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia.

The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia.

The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia

Journal Article The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia Get access The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. By Barman Jean. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. x + 428 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Paul Voisey Paul Voisey University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 91–92, https://doi.org/10.2307/970265 Published: 01 February 1992

The West and beyond the West: a history of British Columbia

The West and beyond the West: a history of British Columbia

Medical history of British Columbia: some aspects.

Medical history of British Columbia: some aspects.

ETHNOLOGY AND GENERAL: The Indian History of British Columbia. Vol. I: The Impact of the White Man. Wilson Duff. (Anthropology in British Columbia, Memoir No. S.)

ETHNOLOGY AND GENERAL: <i>The Indian History of British Columbia. Vol. I: The Impact of the White Man.</i> Wilson Duff. (Anthropology in British Columbia, Memoir No. S.)