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From  NEW! Chapter 6: Joe Fortes, Model Negro CitizenFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter, using historical excerpts and images, highlights the racism experienced by non-white communities and by Serafim in the early 1900s. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 7: On Love and Being LovedFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter explores what life, love and relationships might have looked like throughout Serafim’s life at a time in history where, much like today, racialized communities were forced to … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 7: "White Canada Forever"Racism and Building the Nation State, 1896-1929 |
This chapter examines how racism seen in the 1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riot was both exploited to divide workers and a matter of public policy, evident in the Chinese head tax (1885–1903), … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 8: LegacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the final years of Serafim’s life, sharing Serafim’s final reflections on the life he lived and how he was chosen to be remembered by those in Vancouver. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 9: Soliloquy for SerafimFrom: Searching for Serafim |
In this final chapter the author shares her thoughts and recounts the life of Serafim Fortes. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! ComprimisedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman described the end of the West End sex trade, and the consequences of this for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. | Aaron Chapman | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Democracy, BC-Style |
Historical review of provincial and municipal attempts at voting system reform. | Dennis Pilon | 22 | 2009 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Dirty Books and Dirty LooksFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman describes the Vice squad’s efforts to bring down the Wayne Harris crime ring, and how these were disrupted by the new mayor of Vancouver’s focus on … | Aaron Chapman | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Down the ToiletFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman focuses on two vice cops who were surveilling the English Bay Bathhouse in attempt to crack down on cruising in the West End. | Aaron Chapman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Electricity and SexFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter provides a history of the West End, with a focus on the importance of electricity and sex in the neighbourhood’s development. | Aaron Chapman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! EpilogueFrom: Vancouver Vice |
The epilogue considers the subsequent history of the West End, from the AIDS epidemic to the dramatic transformation of the built neighborhood. | Aaron Chapman | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Excesses of ExploitationIndigenous Resentment and Resistance on the Changing Fur Trade Frontier, 1820-70 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the expansion of the fur trade in Canada in the nineteenth century to British Columbia and the Pacific coast under the Hudson Bay’s Company James Douglas, and … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! ForewordFrom: White Riot |
The foreword to this book discusses the increase in Chinese and Japanese labourers immigrating to Vancouver, the building of Chinatown and Powell Street, and the racist ideology that led to the … | Patricia E. Roy | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! FramedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter details the creation of a new special police squad to address the rising number of sex workers on the streets of the West End. By merely displacing sex workers, this squad shifted … | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  White Supremacy — The Law of the Land |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines specific sections of the British North American (BNA) act and the founding of the reserve system in Canada with particular focus on Indigenous European … | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From From Forestry to Film: The Changing Political Economy of British Columbia |
Historical review tracing the changing nature of the political economy. | Joshua Newman; Keith Brownsey; Michael Howlett | 18 | 2009 | $1.80 Add |
