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Soviet Princeton

Soviet Princeton

Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners' Strike
by Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), labor & industrial relations, communism & socialism

The winter of 1932-33 saw the small interior town of Princeton, BC divided. Charges of outside agitators and charges by mounted provincial police into picket lines of workers, Ku Klux Klan threats and a beating and cross-burning, the kidnapping of legendary labour organizer Slim Evans who was bundled onto the next train out of town (though he retur …

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Rebel Life

Rebel Life

The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy
by Mark Leier
edition:Paperback
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Extensively revised throughout and including a chapter of new material, Rebel Life chronicles the life of labour organizer, revolutionary, anarchist and labour spy Robert Gosden. Mark Leier's revisions incorporate new information about Gosden's career that has come to light since the first edition was published in 1999. Canada's west coast was rife …

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Gardens Aflame

Gardens Aflame

Garry Oak Meadows of BC's South Coast
by Maleea Acker
edition:Paperback
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tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867), marine life

Accustomed to the dark, dripping stands of Douglas-fir, spruce and hemlock that blanketed the Hudson's Bay Company outposts on the remote western coast of the "new World," the first Europeans were surely startled to see the wide-open landscapes of the Garry oak meadows they encountered on Southern Vancouver Island — landscapes that might have rem …

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Along the No. 20 Line

Along the No. 20 Line

by Rolf Knight
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In Along the No. 20 Line, Rolf Knight takes the reader on a tour through working-class East Vancouver of a century ago. Knight's "through-line" is literally a line: the old No. 20 streetcar route that ran between downtown Vancouver and the present-day neighbourhood of the Pacific National Exhibition. From 1892 to 1949, when it was shut down and rep …

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City of Love and Revolution

City of Love and Revolution

Vancouver in the Sixties
by Lawrence Aronsen
edition:Paperback
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), media studies, popular culture

City of Love and Revolution takes readers back to Vancouver in the sixties, the decade when everything changed for the Baby Boomer generation. Dozens of rarely seen photos accompany Lawrence Aronsen's account of the tumultuous decade, bringing to life the sights, the sounds, and the passions of the era of psychedelia and free love, when for a brief …

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Clam Gardens

Clam Gardens

Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada's West Coast
by Judith Williams
edition:Paperback
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For many years, archaeologists were unaware of the ancient clam terraces at Waiatt Bay, on Quadra Island. Author Judith Williams knew no differently until she was advised of their existence by a Klahoose elder named Elizabeth Harry (Keekus). By liaising with other observers of clam gardens in the Broughton Archipelago and conducting her own survey …

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McGowan's War

McGowan's War

by Donald Hauka
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Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the United States in 1859? In McGowan's War, Donald J. Hauka argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation during the fateful winter of 1859, when the British Crown could barely control 30,000 politically divided American miners camped the …

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This Ragged Place

This Ragged Place

by Terry Glavin
edition:Paperback
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In this groundbreaking portrait of the uneasy state of the province, Terry Glavin's lyrical narratives reveal the fibre of a British Columbia rarely glimpsed. With journalistic acumen, he surveys a landscape of inexorable suburban sprawl, dismantled railway lines, scapegoating of Native fisheries, and strange goings?on at Gustafsen Lake. A new bree …

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Red Laredo Boots

Red Laredo Boots

by Theresa Kishkan
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As a girl growing up in British Columbia, and now as a mother with a family of her own, Theresa Kishkan has travelled and camped the length and breadth of the province. In these lyrical essays describing her journeys, Kishkan brings to life a landscape impregnated with history and memory, from the Skeena Valley in the north through the dry plateau …

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Indians at Work

An Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930
by Rolf Knight
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Indians at Work provides an historical background to native labour in BC from the Gold Rush to the beginning of the Great Depression. It counters the common misconception that native people responded to European settlement and industrial development by retreating to a reserve existence. Evidence amassed from logging, transport, construction, longsh …

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High Slack

High Slack

Waddington's Gold Road and the Bute Inlet Massacre of 1864
by Judith Williams
edition:Paperback
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"Engaging ... Williams writes sensitively and with a minimum of academic jargon ... successfully reveals some of the anxieties of the colonial project in British Columbia without losing sight of the fact that the war, far from being a mere anecdote on the colonial stage, was the 'thin edge of the wedge' of the latent violence that has always simmer …

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All Possible Worlds

All Possible Worlds

Utopian Experiments in British Columbia
by Justine Brown
edition:Paperback
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British Columbia — the last temperate part of the New World to be mapped — has long conjured up images of Utopia, a word that comes from the Greek "no place." Indeed, utopian experiments started springing up soon after the first European explorers passed through. In All Possible Worlds, Justine Brown explores the attraction BC holds for utopian …

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Where the Fraser River Flows

The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia
by Mark Leier
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Canada in the European Age

Canada in the European Age

by R.T. Naylor
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White Hoods

The Ku Klux Clan in Canada
by Julian Sher
edition:Paperback
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White Hoods is the first book about the Hooded Empire in Canada. Award?winning journalist and author Julian Sher traces the Canadian Ku Klux Klan from its birth in the early 1920s, through its powerful influence within Saskatchewan's Conservative party in the 1920s and 1930s, to its renaissance under James McQuirter in the 1980s. McQuirter led the …

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No Streets Of Gold

by Helen Potrebenko
edition:Paperback
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