History in BC grows profusely and luxuriantly but with odd undergrowth observed historian J.M.S. Careless many years ago. This claim is fully borne out by this impressive anthology of some of the provinces most distinguished historians geographers and writers gleaned from over forty years of British Columbias leading scholarly journal BC Studies.This collection includes fascinating articles on the Fraser Canyon by Cole Harris on Fort Simpson Metlakatla and Port Essington by Daniel Clayton on Victorias early Chinese community by Patrick Dunae and others on the eviction of Kitsilano and Squamish people from Vancouver and Stanley Park by Jean Barman on early home design styles in Vancouver by Deryck Holdsworth on the failed utopias of Wallachin and Sointula by Nelson Riis and Mikko Saikku on life in a 1970s logging camp by Peter Harrison on flyfishing and dispossession at Penask Lake by Michael Thoms and on the perennial lonesome prospector by Megan Davies. The overarching theme is provided by George Bowering in his classic essay Home Away concerning the search for a home on the West Coasta new one for settlers and an old one for indigenous peoples. show more