scholarly journals Awful Splendor: A Fire History of Canada. By Stephen J. Pyne. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. xxix + 549 p., ill., notes, index, ann. isbn 978-0-7748-1391-4 hc. 85 $ 978-7748-1392-1 pb. 34,95 $)

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Patrick Blanchet ◽  
Denis Robitaille
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fire History ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
History Of

Nature and Nation: Recent Books in Canadian Environmental HistoryThe Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau. By William J. Turkel. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 352 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1376-1. $32.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-1377-8.Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. By Stephen J. Pyne. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 584 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-07748-1391-4. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-1392-1.Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History. By Graeme Wynn. Denver: ABC-CLIO, 2007. 503 pp. US$85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-85109437-0. Price unavailable (eBook) ISBN 978-0-85109-442-4.Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia. By James Murton. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 280 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1337-2. $32.95 (paper) ISBN 9780-7748-1338-9.The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. By Jamie Benidickson. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 432 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1291-7. $29.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-1292-4.Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. By John Sandlos. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 360 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1362-4. $32.95 (paper) ISBN 9780-7748-1363-1.States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. By Tina Loo. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 320 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1289-4. $29.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-1290-0.Taking the Air: Ideas and Change in Canada’s National Parks. By Paul Kopas. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 248 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1329-7. $32.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-1330-3.

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anya Zilberstein
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Native People ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
History Of ◽  
States Of Nature

scholarly journals Immigration, Immigrants, and the Rights of Canadian Citizens in Historical Perspective. Bangarth, Stephanie D. Voices Raised in Protest: Defending Citizens of Japanese Ancestry in North America, 1942–49. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008 Caccia, Ivana. Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy, 1939–1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 Champion, C.P. The Strange Demise of British Canada: The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964–68. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 Iacovetta, Franca. Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006 Kaprielian-Churchill, Isabel. Like Our Mountains: A History of Armenians in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005 Lambertson, Ross. Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930–1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005 MacLennan, Christopher. Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929–1960. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004 Roy, Patricia E. The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008

2011 ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Nationalism ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Japanese Ancestry ◽  
Canadian Mosaic

scholarly journals Fire Exclusion Destroys Habitats for At-Risk Species in a British Columbia Protected Area

Fire ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Kira M. Hoffman ◽  
Sara B. Wickham ◽  
William S. McInnes ◽  
Brian M. Starzomski
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Prescribed Burning ◽  
Douglas Fir ◽  
Conifer Encroachment ◽  
Oak Trees ◽  
Composition And Structure ◽  
Fire Exclusion ◽  
History Of

Fire exclusion and suppression has altered the composition and structure of Garry oak and associated ecosystems in British Columbia. The absence of frequent low severity ground fires has been one of the main contributors to dense patches of non-native grasses, shrubs, and encroaching Douglas-fir trees in historical Garry oak dominated meadows. This case study uses remote sensing and dendrochronology to reconstruct the stand dynamics and long-term fire history of a Garry oak meadow situated within Helliwell Provincial Park located on Hornby Island, British Columbia. The Garry oak habitat in Helliwell Park has decreased by 50% since 1950 due to conifer encroachment. Lower densities and mortalities of Garry oak trees were associated with the presence of overstory Douglas-fir trees. To slow conifer encroachment into the remaining Garry oak meadows, we recommend that mechanical thinning of Douglas-fir be followed by a prescribed burning program. Reintroducing fire to Garry oak ecosystems can restore and maintain populations of plants, mammals, and insects that rely on these fire resilient habitats.

Preschools for Science: The Child Study Centre at the University of British Columbia, 1960–1997

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penney Clark ◽  
Mona Gleason ◽  
Stephen Petrina
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Child Study ◽  
Study Centre ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Although not entirely neglected, the history of preschool reform and child study in Canada is understudied. Historians have documented the fate of “progressivism” in Canadian schooling through the 1930s along with postwar reforms that shaped the school system through the 1960s. But there are few case studies of child study centers and laboratory schools in Canada, despite their popularity in the latter half of the twentieth century. Histories of child study and child development tend to focus on the well-known Institute of Child Study directed by the renowned William E. Blatz in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto (U of T). Yet there were over twenty other child study centers established in Canadian universities during the 1960s and 1970s directed by little-known figures such as Alice Borden and Grace Bredin at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

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