Stephen Hume, The Vancouver Sun

Stephen Hume

The Vancouver Sun

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Past articles by Stephen:

Report calls for ban on water-bottling plants in increasingly arid B.C. Interior

First Nations and environmental groups are protesting the province's continued processing of applications to extract, bottle and export water in B.C. → Read More

BC@150: Trains, planes and technology drove unprecedented social change

The industrialization triggered by the First World War also led to women getting the vote → Read More

BC@150: Anti-Asian sentiment ran high in B.C., despite the desperate need for Chinese workers

In 1872, the new province of B.C. stripped the right to vote from Chinese and Indigenous citizens → Read More

BC@150: 'Birth of liberty' in 1871 excluded women, Indigenous citizens, people of Asian origin

Early provincial leaders moved fast to exclude Asian Canadians and Indigenous Peoples from voting and meaningful involvement in government → Read More

BC@150: 'Birth of liberty' in 1871 excluded women, Indigenous citizens, people of Asian origin

Early provincial leaders moved fast to exclude Asian Canadians and Indigenous Peoples from voting and meaningful involvement in government → Read More

BC@150: Momentum in favour of Canada fuelled by fears of annexation by U.S.

Gold seekers from California swarmed into B.C., many expecting that where they went, the U.S. followed → Read More

BC@150: Some celebrated the pragmatic union with Canada, others wanted union with U.S.

Long ambivalent to the colony (one unimpressed governor described it as a road with a mine at one end and a dock at the other), London saw it in 1871 as a… → Read More

BC@150: Historians have glossed over the 10,000 years that came before B.C.

B.C. has been populated for well over 10,000 years. Yet there are 50 metres of shelves of books on the past 150 years. → Read More

Stephen Hume: Let's drop the vitriol and get on with trying to build a better country

Canada Day can feel like the family dinner you wish you could duck but feel compelled to attend because you love your family despite the bad manners, angst and drama queens. There’s the resentful prairie teenager who would rather party with the affluent crush down the street; the exasperated Quebec parent who once infuriated the […] → Read More

Canada 150 celebrations come a little early for B.C.

Champagne corks may pop, artillery boom and Canada 150 party balloons waft above five eastern capitals, but out here on the wet, wild, western side of the Rocky Mountains, whatever celebrations may… → Read More

Canada 150: Esther Pariseau built hospitals, schools, orphanages for the poor

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Esther Pariseau was B.C.’s first female architect, although her commitment to plumb bob and carpenter’s square was a means to an end. Her real mission as Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur of the Sisters of Providence was to […] → Read More

Canada 150: Esther Pariseau built hospitals, schools, orphanages for the poor

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Esther Pariseau was B.C.’s first female architect, although her commitme… → Read More

Canada 150: Mabel French became B.C.'s first female lawyer

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Today: Mabel Priscilla Penery French → Read More

Canada 150: Mabel French became B.C.'s first female lawyer

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Today: Mabel Priscilla Penery French → Read More

Canada 150: Historian wrote the definitive book on B.C.

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. → Read More

Canada 150: Okanagan writer focuses on First Nations education

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. → Read More

Canada 150: Award-winning poet was an early feminist and international journalist

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. → Read More

Canada 150: Canada's original soccer hero

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. → Read More

Canada 150: Vancouver gymnast Lori Fung claimed Olympic gold

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Today: Lori Fung. → Read More

Canada 150: Anthropologist chronicled 19th-century First Nations societies

To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. → Read More