BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Downtown Eastside Community Play
Labour History
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Griffin, Betty & Susan Lockharte. Their Own History: Women’s Contribution to the Labour Movement in BC. United Fisherman and Allied Worker’s Union- CAW Seniors Club, Vancouver, 2002.
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Latham, Barbara K. and Robert J. Pazdro. editors. Not just Pin Money: Selected Essays on the History of Women’s Work in British Columbia. Camosun College, Victoria, BC, 1984.
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Marlatt, Daphne. Ana Historic. Coach House Press, Canada, 1988.
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Of the Life and Times of Arthur H. (Slim) Evans 1890-1944 Carpenter, Miner, Labor Leader. Trade Union Research Bureau,Vancouver 1977.
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Addiction
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Berkout, Monique & Robinson, Francesca. Madam Joy: The Story of Human Drug Use and the Politcs of its Regulation, Harper Collins Publishers Australia, 1999.
Boyd, Neil. Canadian Law: An Introduction, Nelson Thomas Learning, Third Edition, Toronto, 2002.
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Courtwright, David T. Forces of Habit: Drugs and The Making of The Modern World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, 2001.
Crozier, Lorna, and Lurie, Patrick. Addicted: Notes From The Belly of the Beast, Greystone Books, Douglas and McIntyre Publishing Group, Vancouver/Toronto, 2001.
Davis, Wade. Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.
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Gray, Judge James P. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About it: A Judicial Indictment on The War On Drugs, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2001.
Green, Trevor. Bad Date: The Lost Girls of Vancouver’s Low Track, ECW Press, Toronto, 2001.
Hodgeson, Barbara. Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Dream, Greystone Books, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 1999.
Morgan, Patricia & Kelly. Love Her As She Is: Lessons from a Daughter Stolen by Addictions, Light Hearted Concepts, Calgary, Alberta, 2000.
Murphy,Emily F. “Janey Canuck”, The Blade Candle, Thomas Allan Publisher, Toronto,1922.
Schaler, Jeffrey A. Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, La Salle, Chicago, 2000.
Black Community
Compton, Wayde. Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature. Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2001.
Miller, Mark. Such Melodious Racket: The Last History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949. The Mercury Press, 1997.
Chinatown
Adachi, Ken. The Enemy that Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians. McClelland and Stewart Ltd, Toronto, 1976.
Anderson, Kay J. Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca, 1995
Chinatown: A Walking Tour Through History.
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Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony, Doughlas and McIntyre, Vancouver and Toronto, 1995
Moosang, Faith. First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy. Presentation House Gallery, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2000.
Morton, James. In the Seas of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia. J. J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver 1974.
Wai, Hayne Y. Vancouver Chinatown: 1960-1980, Community Perspective. New Scholars – New Visions in Canadian Studies, Canadian Studies Centre, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 1998.
Welldon, Christine. Canadian Pacific Railway: Pon Git Cheng, Grolier Limited, Toronto, 1991.
Wright, Richard Thomas. In a Strange Land: A Pictorial Record of the Chinese in Canada 1788-1923. Western Producer Prairie Books, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1988.
Yee, Paul. Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, Toronto and University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1988
First Nations
Armstrong, Jeanette, C., Lee Maracle, Delphine Derickson & Gary Young-Ing. We get Our Living Like Milk From the Land, The Okanagan Rights Committee, The Okanagan Indian Education Resource Society,1993-94.
Conner, Daniel, C.G., and Doreen Bethune-Johnson. Our Coast Salish Way of Life, The Squamish, Prentice Hall Canada Inc., Scarborough, Ont.,1986.
Coull, Cheryl. A Traveller’s Guide to Aboriginal B.C., Whitecap Books, Vancouver, Toronto, 1996
Fournier, Suzanne & Ernie Crey. Stolen From Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nation’s Children and the Restoration of Aborginal Communities. Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, Toronto, 1997.
Harris, Cole. The Resettlements of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change, UBC Press, Vancouver, 1977.
Johnson-Tekahionwake, Pauline E. Legends of Vancouver, Quary Press, 1911 (New Edition 1991).
Knight, Rolf. Indians At Work: Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1996.
Little Child, George. This is My Land. Children’s Books Press, San Francisco, California, 1993.
Loyie, Larry, & Vera Manual. Two Plays About Residential Schools, “Ora Pro Nobis (Pray For Us) and “Strength of Indian Women”, Living Traditions, Vancouver, B.C.
Maracle, Brian. Crazy Water: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery. Penguin Books, Toronto, 1994.
Morriseau, Renae, & Richard Hersley. Whose Land is This?: Bubble T.V on The Land Question in B.C, Modern Visual Productions, Kyote Collectives.
Newton, Norman. Fire in The Raven’s Nest: The Haida of British Columbia, New Press, Toronto, 1973.
Newell, Diane. Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada’s Pacific Coast Fisheries, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1999.
Schneider, Reisa Smiley & Gottfriedson, Garry. (Illustrators: George Littlechild, Linda Spuner, and Dawan Frimer). In Honour of Our Grandmothers, Theyns Books Ltd., Penticton ,B.C,1994.
Shared Learnings: Integrating BC Aborginal Content K-10. British Columbia Ministry of Education 1998.
Silvey, Diane. From Time In Memorial: The First Peoples of the Pacific North West Coast, Classroom Resources, Pacific Edge Publishing,1999.
Silvey, Diane. Raven’s Flight. Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 2000.
Sultles, Wayne. Coast Salish Essays, Talon Books, Vancouver, University of Washington Press, Seattle, London, 1984.
Watts, Dolly. Native Traditional Theatre: Performing Ethnography of the Gitskan Kwaguilth and Nu-chah-nulth, Unpublished Paper, Specifically: Chronological history on prohibition of Potlatching, Nov. 6, 1988.
Vancouver History
Ackery, Ivan. 50 Years on Theatre Row, Han Cock House Publishers Ltd., North Vancouver, B.C,1980.
Baum, Daniel J. & Penelope Mullette. Times Past: 1885, IPI Publishing Ltd., Toronto 1999.
Bennet, Guy. Guys Guide to the Flipside: the Other Vancouver, Arsenol Pulp Press, Vancouver 1992.
Bowering, George. Bowerings B.C: A Swashbuckling History, Viking, Published by the Penguin Group, Toronto, London, Victoria, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand, 1996.
Callwod, June, The Naughty Nineties:1890/1900, Canada’s Illustrated Heritage, Natural Science of Canada Ltd., Toronto, 1977.
Cherringon, John A. Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait (this is fictionalized history), Harbour Publishing, Madiera park, B.C., 1997
Davis, Chuck. (Editor in chief) The Greater Vancouver Book: an Urban Encyclopedia, Linkman Press, Surrey, B.C., 1997
Davis, Chuck & Mooney, Shirley. Vancouver: An Illustrated Chronology, produced in cooperation with the Vancouver Baord of Trade, Windsor Publications, Ontario, 1986.
Davis,Chuck. Vancouver Then and Now, Magic Light Publishing, Ottawa, 2001.
Fisher, Robin. Vancouver’s Voyage: Charting the Northwest Coast, Doughals McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto and University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1992
Gourley, Catherine. Island in the Creek: The Granville Island Story, Harbour Publishing, Madiera park, B.C., 1988
Griffin, Kevin. Vancouver’s Many Faces: Passports to the Culture of a City, Whitecap Books, Vancouver, Toronto, 1993
Hull, Raymond. Gordon and Christine Soules, Vancouver’s Past, Gordon Soules Economic and Marketing Research, Vancouver, 1974
Hume, Stephen. Bush Telegraph: Discovering the Pacific Province, Harbour Publishing, Madiera Park, B.C, 1999.
Jagpal, Sarjeet Singh. Becoming Canadians: Pioneer Sikhs in their own Words, Harbour Publishing, Madiera Park and Vancouver, B.C., 1994.
Keller, Betty. On the Shady Side: Vancouver 1886-1914, Horsdal and Schubert, Ganges, B.C. 1986
Kloppenborg, Anne, & Alice Niwinski Even Johnson. Vancouver: A City Album, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 1977 (photos and historical quotes)
Kluckner, Michael, Vancouver: the Way it Was, WhiteCap Books, Vancouver, 1984
Latham, Barbara and Cathy Kess, editors, In Her Own Right: Selected Essays on Women’s History in B.C, Camosun College, Victoria, B.C, 1980.
MacDonald, Bruce. Vancouver: A Visual History, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1992
McDonald, Robert A.J. & Jean Barman. Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1986 (includes essays on housing, urbanism and class at turn of the century, crime in depression years, the Mother’s Council of the 1930’s)
McDonald, Robert A.J. Making Vancouver: Class, Status and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913, UBC Press, Vancouver, 1996
Mckellar, Keith. Neon Eulogy: Vancouver Café and Street, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, 2001
Morgan, Roland. Vancouver Then and Now, Bodima Publications, Vancouver, 1977
Morley, Alan. Vancouver: Milltown to Metropolis, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 1961.
Nicol, Eric. Vancouver the Romance on Canadian Cities Series, Double Day Canada Ltd., Toronto, 1970.
Portrait 2K: A Hurricane in the Basement and Other Vancouver Experiences, The City of Vancouver, 2000.
Rogers, Ned Joe. Modern Commons: Place, Nature and Revolution at the Strathcona Community Gardens, unpublished MA thesis SFU, 1990.
Roy, Patricia E. Vancouver, An Illustrated History, James Lorimer and Company, Publishers, National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, Toronto, 1980.
Schafer, R. Murray. (Editor) The Vancouver Soundscape, World Soundscape Project, Document #5, Sonic Research Studio, Burnaby, B.C.,
Sommers, Jeff and Nick Blomley. The Worst Block in Vancouver, unpublished Article.
Steeves, Dorothy G. The Compassionate Rebel: Ernest E. Winch and His Times, Evergreen Press, Ltd., Vancouver, 1960
Stouck, David and Myler Wilkinson. (Editors) Genius of the Place: Writing About British Columbia, Polestar Book Publishers, c/o Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 2000.
Swan, Joe. Police Beat: 24 Vancouver Murders, Cosmopolitan Publishing Companies, Canada 1991.
Urban Reader. Vancouver: Turn of the Century, July/Aug. 1974, v. 2#6
Usukawa, Saeko & the editors of the Sound Heritage Series. Sound Heritage: Voices from British Columbia, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, Toronto, 1984 (includes oral history memories of Captain Cook’s meeting with Macquinna; Vancouver oral memories of Hogan’s Alley, relief camps and Bloody Sunday)
Vogel, Aynsley & Wyse, Davis. Vancouver: A History in Photographs, Altitude Publishing, Alberta 1993.
Walling, Savannah. C’era una volta in montagna .. Once Upon a Time in the Mountains, Canadian Theatre Review: Italian Canadian Theatre, #104, Fall, 2000
(Article on community theatre directed by Richard Fowler in Nocelle, Italy)
Strathcona
Atkin, John. Strathcona: Vancouver’s First Neighborhood, Whitecap Books, Vancouver, Toronto, 1994.
Herron, Noel, Robert Moore & Ken Walters. Strathcona Memories 1891-1991: In Celebration of 100 Years of Serving Students and Parents, The Vancouver School Board, 1991.
Contemporary Downtown East Side
Atkin, John. (Editor) Old Vancouver Town Site Walking Tour, Gastown-Powell St. – Strathcona – Chinatown – Victory Square, Footprints Community Art Project: 2001.
Baxter Sheila. A Child is Not a Toy: Voices of Children in Poverty, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1993.
Baxter, Sheila. No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1988.
Baxter, Shiela. Still Raising Hell: Poverty, Activism and Other True Stories, 1977.
Baxter, Sheila. Under the Viaduct: Homeless in Beautiful B.C, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1991.
Cameron, Sandy. Downtown Eastside Poems.
Cameron, Sandy. Fighting for Community: Stories from the Carnegie Center and the Downtown Eastside, The Carnegie Community Association, Vancouver, 1996
Cameron, Sandy. One Hundred Years of Struggle.
Cameron, Sandy. Taking Another Look at Class, Carnegie Community Centre Association and the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, B.C. 1999
Campbell, Bart. The Door is Open: Memoirs of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer, Anvil Press, Vancouver, 2001.
Canning-Drew, Jo-Ann. (Editor and Interviewer/compiler Laurel Kimbley) Hastings and Main: Stories from an Inner City Neighborhood, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1987.
Douglas, Stan. Every Building on 100 West Hastings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2002.
Downtown Eastside Community Monitoring Report: Chinatown, Downtown Eastside, Gastown, Strathcona, Victory Square, City of Vancouver’s Planning Dept. 2001, 6th edition. (list of community organizations).
Knight, Rolf. Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront, New Star Books Ltd., Vancouver, 1980
Knight, Rolf (as told to). A Very Ordinary Life, New Star Books, Vancouver, 1974
Marlatt, Daphne and Carole Itter. Opening Doors: Vancouver’s East End, Sound Heritage, v. viii #1 and 2, Aural History Program, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services, Victoria, 1979
Martin, Ruth Elwood. Narratives From Inside: Prison Medicine in B.C, Unpublished Article, Prison Medicine Common Curriculum Course, UBC Faculty of Medicine, 2003.
Osborn, Bud. Hundred Block Rock, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 1999.
Osborn, Bud. Lonesome Monsters, Anvil Press Publishers, Vancouver, Canada, 1999.
Rogers, Nedjo. Modern Commons: Place, Nature and Revolution at the Strathcona Community Gardens, unpublished MA thesis, SFU, 1990
Ross, Sara. Walls of change: Community Public Art in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: A Catalogue of Murals and Their Making.
Sommers, Jeff & Nick Blomley. The Worst Block in Vancouver (unpublished article)
Taylor, Paul. Carnegie Newsletters, Carnegie Centre, Vancouver.
The B.C Welfare Joke Book.
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie Video.
Bowman, John S. Andrew Carnegie: Steel Tycoon, American Dream. Silver Burdett Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989.
Krass, Peter. Carnegie. John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hobokin, New Jersey, 2002.
Wall, Joseph Frazer. Andrew Carnegie. New York, Oxford University Press,1970.
Gastown
B.C. Heritage Trust. Gastown: A Walking Tour Through History.
Burman, Jean. The Remarkable Adventures of “Portugese Joe”, Silvey: A True Story of British Columbia. For the Silvey Family Reunion, Ladysmith, April 3, 1999.
Hull, Raymond & Olga Ruskin. Gastown’s Gassy Jack: The Life and Times of John Deighton of England, California and Early British Columbia. Gordan Soules Economic Research, Vancouver, 1971.
Pethick, Derek. Vancouver: The Pioneer Years 1774-1886, Sunfire Publications Ltd., Langley, B.C. 1984 (includes colourful accounts and quotes of Gassy Jack and the Great Fire).
Poverty and Homelessness
Allan, Tom C. Someone to Talk To: Care and Control of the Homeless, Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, 2000
Burnham, Linda Frye. A More Perfect Union. Community Arts Network Reading Room, reprinted from Dec. 2002 issue of American Theatre.
Murphy, Barbara. On the Street: How we Created the Homeless, J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, Inc. 2000
Organic Intellectuals. The View from the Sidewalk: Towards a New Definition of People Who are Homeless, Dec. 2001
Swanson, Jean. Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion, Toronto, 2001
Community Plays
Bell, John. Landscape and Desire: Bread and Puppet Pageants in the 1990’s, Bread and Puppet Press, Glover, Vermont, 1997
Canadian Theatre Review. Community Plays, #90 Spring 1997 (includes articles by Ann Jellico, Rachel Van Fossen (writer) and Ruth Howard (designer), and script of “Ka’ma’mo’pi cik: The Gathering” by Rachel Van Fossen and Darryl Wildcat)
Canadian Theatre Review. Staging the Pacific Province, #101, Winter 2000 (includes articles on the Caravan Farm Theatre, Public Dreams and the Enderby Community Play)
Coult, Tony and Baz Kershaw. Engineers of the Imagination: The Welfare State Handbook, A Methuen Paperback, Methuen, London and New York, 1983
Dwyer, M. Christine and Susan L. Frankel, Ph.D. Summary Evaluation of the Artists and Communities Pilot Initiative, January, 2000.
Hostebro Festival. Waterways. Rivista Internationale d’Arie, Milano, Italia, #9, 1991 (di Barberi/Barbarernes) tug 9. (describes one of the Odin Teatret’s community theatre projects in Holstebro, Denmark)
Jellico, Ann, Community Plays: How to Put Them On, A Methuen Paperback, Methuen Londton Ltd., 1987
Stubbington, Cathy, James Fagan Tait, Rosalind Williams, from the people of Enderby and District and Spallumcheen Band with Shuswap translations from Cindy Williams. Not the Way I Heard It: the Enderby and District Community Play Project, unpublished script.