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The writing on the wall : chinese and japanese immigration to BC, 1920
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ISBN: 144262762X 9781442627628 9781442658417 144265841X 9781442611351 1442611359 1442610220 Year: 2010 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press,

Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier
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ISBN: 1282022938 9786612022937 1442673273 9781442673274 0802036783 9780802036780 Year: 2002 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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"Barman ponders Constance Lindsay Skinner's absence from the Canadian literary canon. She mixed with such twentieth-century personalities as Jack London, Harriet Monroe, Frederick Jackson Turner, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Cornelia Meigs, Long Lance, and Margaret Mitchell, yet was unreconized in her own country. Her sex was a factor, just as it was for fellow Canadian women writers. So was her facility at multiple genres, a talent that, even as it made possible a writing life, prevented her from achieving a major breakthrough in any one of them. Perhaps the most important factor was her identification with the frontier of a nation whose centre long shaped literary matters in its own image. Constance Lindsay Skinner makes a significant contribution to Canadian and American history and to literary and gender studies."--Jacket "Constance Lindsay Skinner made a living as a writer at a time when few men, and even fewer women, managed the feat. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, she worked as a journalist in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Chicago, before moving to New York City in 1912, where she supported herself by her pen until her death in 1939. Despite a prolific output - poetry, plays, short stories, histories, reviews, adult and children's novels - and in contrast to her reputation in the United States, she has remained virtually unknown in the country of her birth." "Reconstructing Constance Lindsay Skinner's writing life from her papers in the New York Public Library and from her publications, Jean Barman suggests several reasons for Skinner's success. As well as a capacity to respond to market forces by moving between genres, she possessed an aura of authenticity by virtue of her Canadian frontier heritage. As literary device, the frontier also gave her the freedom to tackle contentious issues, such as Aboriginal and hybrid identities, gender, and sexuality, that might otherwise have been far more difficult to get into print. Last, but very important to Skinner's writing career, was the willingness to subordinate her private self to the life of the imagination."

The resettlement of British Columbia : essays on colonialism and geographical change
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ISBN: 0774805889 0774805897 Year: 1997 Publisher: Vancouver UBC Press

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Designing deliberative democracy : the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly
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ISBN: 9780521885072 0521885078 9780511491177 9780521712071 0521712076 1107186455 9786611255091 0511387903 0511386915 0511491174 0511383231 1281255092 0511385080 0511388896 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power to reform fundamental political institutions. It was an innovative gamble that has been replicated elsewhere in Canada and in the Netherlands, and is gaining increasing attention in Europe as a democratic alternative for constitution-making and constitutional reform. In the USA, advocates view citizens' assemblies as a means for reforming referendum processes. This book investigates the citizens' assembly in British Columbia to test and refine key propositions of democratic theory and practice.

Sojourning sisters
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ISBN: 144262146X 1442621486 0802048773 128202308X 9786612023088 1442680075 9781442680074 9780802048776 9780802036971 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press

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In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credi.

Wartime images, peacetime wounds : the media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
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ISBN: 0802085512 1281994243 9786611994242 1442683244 9781442683242 9781281994240 0802087450 9780802087454 9780802085511 6611994246 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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"In Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds, Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history - the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff." "Drawing from extensive newspaper, television, and radio news coverage, legal and law enforcement documents, and ethnographic interviews with journalists, RCMP officers, and Native leaders, Lambertus examines the construction and dissemination of vilifying stereotyped portrayals of Native people. Employing a variety of methodologies including discourse analysis, the investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by those of 'outsiders' during the course of the event. The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals. Provocative and convincingly argued, Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for the study of the representation of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general."--Jacket.


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The new African diaspora in Vancouver : migration, exclusion, and belonging
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ISBN: 1442695188 9781442695184 9781442695191 1442695196 9781442642959 Year: 2011 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Creese reveals that the routine discounting of previous education by potential employers, the demeaning of African accents and bodies by society at large, cultural pressures to reshape gender relations and parenting practices, and the absence of extended families often contribute to downward mobility for immigrants. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity."--Pub. desc. "The New African Diaspora in Vancouver documents the experiences of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Canada's west coast. Despite their individual national origins, many adopt new identities as 'African' and are actively engaged in creating a new, place-based 'African community.' In this study, Gillian Creese analyzes interviews with sixty-one women and men from twenty-one African countries to document the gendered and racialized processes of community-building that occur in the contexts of marginalization and exclusion as they exist in Vancouver.

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Africans --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Vancouver (B.C.) --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- British Columbia --- Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- Colombie-Britannique --- British Columbia (Colony) --- Colony of British Columbia --- United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia --- Brits-Kolombië --- Britaniya Kolumbiyası --- Брытанская Калумбія --- Brytanskai︠a︡ Kalumbii︠a︡ --- Britanska Kolumbija --- Британска Колумбия --- Britanska Kolumbii︠a︡ --- Colúmbia Britànica --- Britská Kolumbie --- Britisk Columbia --- Britisch-Kolumbien --- Briti Columbia --- Βρετανικη Κολομβια --- Vretanikē Kolomvia --- Province of British Columbia --- B.C. (British Columbia) --- BC --- C.-B. (Province) --- Vancouver Island (Colony) --- City of Vancouver (B.C.) --- فانكوفر (B.C.) --- Fānkūfar (B.C.) --- Vankuver (B.C.) --- Горад Ванкувер (B.C.) --- Horad Vankuver (B.C.) --- Ванкувер (B.C.) --- Ванкувър (B.C.) --- Vankuvŭr (B.C.) --- Βανκούβερ (B.C.) --- Vankouver (B.C.) --- Vankuvero (B.C.) --- ونکوور (B.C.) --- Vankūvir (B.C.) --- Fankoever (B.C.) --- 밴쿠버 (B.C.) --- Paenkʻubŏ (B.C.) --- ונקובר (B.C.) --- Venkûver (B.C.) --- Vancuverium (B.C.) --- Vankūvera (B.C.) --- Vankuveris (B.C.) --- バンクーバー (B.C.) --- Bankūbā (B.C.) --- Wankuwér (B.C.) --- 溫哥華 (B.C.) --- Wen'gehua (B.C.) --- Race relations. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Africans |z British Columbia |z Vancouver |x Social conditions.

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