Books for BC Day

On Monday, August 7, our westerly neighbours will celebrate BC Day. To help them celebrate we’re highlighting three upcoming titles from our Fall catalogue that explore specific social and political histories within British Columbia.

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws

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By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace
Foreword by Bonnie Leonard

An exploration of Secwépemc history told through Indigenous knowledge and oral traditions.

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume detail how a homeland has shaped Secwépemc existence while the Secwépemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Read more >

For an excerpt from Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws click here.

Witness to Loss

Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians

Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman

A Japanese Canadian participated in the government’s destruction of his own community. How should he be remembered?

In Witness to Loss Kimura’s previously unknown memoir – written in the last years of his life – is translated from Japanese to English and published for the first time. This remarkable document chronicles a history of racism in British Columbia, describes the activities of the committees on which Kimura served, and seeks to defend his actions. Read more >

The Campbell Revolution?

Power, Politics, and Policy in British Columbia

Edited by J. R. Lacharite and Tracy Summerville

Assessing British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell’s tenure and political legacy.

Beginning with a detailed account of Gordon Campbell’s pre-Liberal Party political activities, The Campbell Revolution? then takes a broad look at the policy options open to him in the context of the neoliberal revolution that swept across Canada and elsewhere in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more >