#200 Emily’s compartmentalized friend
Emily Carr As I Knew Her by Carol Pearson, with a foreword by Robert Amos. Victoria: Touchwood Editions, 2016. $19.95 … FULL STORY
FEATURE REVIEWS
#199 What the Heckman
REVIEW: Heckman’s Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey by Ralph Beaumont, foreword by John Geiger Mississauga, Ontario: The Credit Valley Railway… FULL STORY
#198 Inspector Vance aka J.F.C.B.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator by Eve Lazarus Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press,… FULL STORY
#197 Power to the people
REVIEW: Powering Up Canada A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 by Ruth Sandwell (editor) Montreal and Kingston:… FULL STORY
#196 Batten down the anthology
REVIEW: Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea by Michael L. Hadley and Anita Hadley (editors) Madeira Park: Douglas &… FULL STORY
#195 Remembrance Day, 2017
A century since Vimy and Passchendaele: Two wars, two families, one message By Howard Macdonald Stewart * For Remembrance Day… FULL STORY
#194 Lill Emerson: Raincoast educator
Lill’s Story: Reminiscences of a Country Schoolteacher by Lillian Emerson Edited by Mary Novik and Ned Young * We are… FULL STORY
#193 Nanaimo mayor rivals Dunsmuir
Mark Bate: Nanaimo’s First Mayor by Jan Peterson Victoria: Heritage House, 2017. $19.95. / 9781772031829 Reviewed by John R. Hinde… FULL STORY
#192 Take me to the river
REVIEW: Longshoring on the Fraser: Stories and History of ILWU Local 502 by Chris M.V. Madsen, Liam O’Flaherty, and Michelle… FULL STORY
#191 Biodiversity in the boardroom
REVIEW: Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics by Jessica Dempsey Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. £19.99 (U.K.). / … FULL STORY
#190 Multiculturalism beyond rhetoric
REVIEW: The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America by Christine Kim Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press,… FULL STORY
#189 Skimming is for milk, not reading
REVIEW: Garage Criticism: Cultural Missives in an Age of Distraction by Peter Babiak Vancouver: Anvil Press 2016. $20.00 / 978-1-77214-050-7… FULL STORY
#188 Spooked horses in a storm
Auguries by Clea Roberts London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2017. $20 / 9781771314510 Reviewed by David Stouck * … FULL STORY
#187 Brother, where art thou?
Brother McClelland $ Stewart 2017 by David Chariandy $25 hc ISBN 978-0-7710-2290-6 reviewed by Cherie Thiessen * The only author… FULL STORY
#186 Industrial follies
REVIEW Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017 $32.95 / 9780774833059 by Jonathan Peyton… FULL STORY
#185 We stand on guard for diversity
REVIEW: Wherever I Find Myself: Stories by Canadian Immigrant Women By Miriam Matejova (editor) Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2017. $24.95… FULL STORY
#184 Margaret Ormsby remembered
Just over a year ago, in “Welcome to the Ormsby Review” (September 16, 2016), Richard Mackie provided his memories of… FULL STORY
#183 Blaise Cendrars–from Ekstasis
REVIEW: Blaise Cendrars Speaks… Translated by David J. MacKinnon, edited with an introduction by Jim Christy Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2016…. FULL STORY
#182 Reckoning the beckoned
REVIEW: Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadian Coast by Sylvia Taylor Victoria: Heritage House, 2017 $19.95 … FULL STORY
#181 Mousewoman meets Spandex
REVIEW: The Seriousness Of Play: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas by Nicola Levell London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016 £19.95 (U.K.) / 9781910433119 Reviewed… FULL STORY
