This book presents the results of more than 25 years of research on killer whales in Washington State and British Columbia. Intended for both whale watchers and researchers, this updated edition of the book first published in 1996 contains the latest information about killer whale natural history. It includes over 300 photographs of resident killer whales as well as a genealogical registry that enables readers to identify individual killer whales and their family groups. A special section includes suggestions for whale watchers.

Killer Whales: The Natural History and Genealogy of Orcinus Orca in British Columbia and Washington State

Kenneth C. Balcomb

Graeme M. Ellis

John K.B. Ford

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Struck by the dynamic character of a 19th-century Northwest Coast painted chest that he had walked past many times at the museum where he worked, Bill McLennan decided to photograph it for closer study. Infrared film produced surprising results. Painted areas that had been obscured with a patina of oils and soot could now be clearly seen, as the complete painting emerged from beneath the weathered surface. With this find, the Image Recovery Project was born, whose object was to produce a database of infrared photographs of historical Northwest Coast paintings. The Transforming Image brings together some of the most intriguing images, many revealed for the first time since the objects were collected at the beginning of the 20th century. The written text by Karen Duffek brings forward new insights derived from the project's detective work, linking painted images to communities, histories, and the hands of individual painters. The Transforming Image arose from the need of current generations to gain access to the creative achievements of their ancestors and to build on the cultural knowledge that the old paintings could reveal.

The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations (Ubc Museum of Anthropology Research Publication)

Bill McLennan

Karen Duffek

Uncommon Property describes Canadian West Coast fisheries in the 1980s, focusing on the social and economic structure of the industry. It is the product of a three-year research project conducted by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Part 1 is concerned with the history of the industry, the role of the federal and provincial governments, international markets, significant differences in raw fish markets and their importance for the fish processing sector, and the international context for British Columbia fisheries. Part 2 considers the labour process. This includes chapters on shoreworkers and fishers, with descriptions of their characteristics and working conditions. It also examines their history of organization, the special place of native Indians in the fishery, and the perspective of history by the Union of Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union Newspaper. Part 3 considers fishing communities: their viability when they are dependent on a diminishing resource and their responses to resource depletion. This study offers readers unique insights into the complex problems of fishing industries in which competing interests are attempting to find solutions to unresolvable contradictions.

Uncommon Property: Fishing and Fish Processing in British Columbia

Business & Money

Marchak

Economics

Section 35 of the Constitution Act expressly acknowledges, for the first time, that there are "aboriginal people" and "aboriginal rights." What, then, are the implications for Canada of the inclusion of this section in our constitution? Central to this question is the definition of aboriginal rights and whether they include such "special" political rights as self-determination. Home and Native Land is divided into two major sections. The first focuses on definitions and provides a detailed account of the meaning of the phrase "aboriginal rights" as used by the two main actors: the government and the aboriginal peoples. The second is devoted to the question of political rights and the means by which this issue can be resolved.

Home and Native Land: Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution

Politics & Social Sciences

Asch, Michael

Politics & Government

An ecological classification system was developed for west-central Alberta through the analysis of vegetation, soil, site, and forest productivity information. The hierarchical classification system has three levels - ecosite, ecosite phase and plant community type. Forty-four ecosites are described with further detail provided by subdivision into ecosite and ecosite phase and plant community type. A soil type classification system that describes 17 soil types was also developed. Management interpretations were made for drought, excess moisture, soil rutting hazard, soil compaction hazard, puddling hazard, soil erosion hazard, frost heave hazard, soil temperature limitations, vegetation competition, and windthrow hazard. Colour photos and drawings for 106 common plants of west-central Alberta are presented. An index listing common and scientific names of illustrated plants is included. Keys to ecological variables, definitions of soil horizon designations, and a glossary are also included.

Field Guide to Ecosites of West-Central Alberta (Special Report (Canadian Forest Service), 9)

Science & Math

Beckingham, J.D.

Archibald, J.H.

Corns, I. G. W.

Nature & Ecology

Field Guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction, Fbp System

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Taylor, S.W.

Alexander, M.E.

Pike, R. G.

Exercise & Fitness

The Amphibians of British Columbia

Campbell, R. Wayne

Green, David Martin

Biological Sciences

pp 294, 45 plates, 7 maps. This book discusses the way sea power was exercised by the Royal Navy in the development of the North-western Pacific coastal region of North America, particularly in the area of British Columbia.

Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North America, 1810-1914 With Study of British Maritime Ascendancy

History

Gough, Barry M.

Americas

Diplomacy and Enterprise British China Policy 1933-1937

Endicott

A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison (British Columbia Historical Documents)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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