Joseph Jones
Librarian and Textician
I worked at the University of British Columbia Library 1980-2003 as a
cataloguer and reference librarian in the humanities and social sciences.
In 2013 the Library ceased to host my web site, so
I migrated portions of it to the Vancouver Community Network.
You can use the form at
http://eyeonnorquay.wordpress.com/contact-joseph-jones/
to send me an email.
Carolina Backcountry Family Studies
Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
Books
Patterns in the Culture of the John Johnson & Margaret Howell Family of Aiken County South Carolina
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2021. 92 p.
Simulacrum of Refuge : a History of Canada as Destination for U.S.
Iraq War Deserters
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2017. 208 p.
The Invention of Death
Toronto : Quattro Books, 2013. 133 p.
[Translation of: L’invention de la mort / Hubert Aquin]
Les sables mouvants = Shifting sands
Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, 2009. 109 p.
[Translation and edition of Hubert Aquin novella, with appended essay]
War Resisters in Retrospect : Papers from the 2007 Our Way Home Peace Event and Reunion
Vancouver ; Las Vegas : Joseph Jones ; Lori Olafson, 2009. 112 p.
[Edited with Lori Olafson]
Happenstance and Misquotation : Canadian Immigration Policy
1966-1974, the Arrival of U.S. Vietnam War Resisters, and the Views
of Pierre Trudeau
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2008. 80 p.
Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2005. xiv, 464 p.
Contending Statistics : The Numbers for U.S. Vietnam War Resisters
in Canada
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2005. 74 p.
Poem
“white phosphorus and depleted uranium,”
p. 126-127 in
Crossing Lines : Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era
(Allan Briesmaster and Steven Michael Berzensky, eds.)
Hamilton, ON : Seraphim Editions, c2008. 256 p.
Selected Essays
“Tarttologizing” [a librarian investigates the reception and achievement of Donna Tartt]
Newsletter - University of British Columbia. Emeritus College (fall 2023) 18
https://emerituscollege.ubc.ca/sites/emerituscollege.ubc.ca/files/documents/NewsOct2023.pdf
“An ancestor prospector rambles in Aiken County”
News and journal (Aiken-Barnwell Genealogical Society of South
Carolina) 37:3 (third quarter 2021) 53
“Mere and pure déjà vu: a COVID-19 reflection.”
UBC Emeritus College Newsletter 2:5 (April 2020) 14
https://emerituscollege.ubc.ca/sites/emerituscollege.ubc.ca/files/documents/NewsApr2020.pdf
“Electromagnetic Print emits a pulse: new Vancouver book publisher
focuses on Indigenous and radical texts.” Volcano (13 March 2017)
http://thevolcano.org/2017/03/13/electromagnetic-print/
“Letters R.I.P.: recollections of Crad Kilodney.”
Vancouver Media Co-op (30 June 2014)
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/blog/joseph-jones/31062
“First Nation clan blocks path of northern pipelines in British
Columbia.” occupy.com (26 Nov 2013)
http://www.occupy.com/article/first-nation-clan-blocks-path-northern-pipelines-british-columbia
“Art Review | Everything is going to …”
Mainlander (29 May 2011)
http://themainlander.com/2011/05/29/review-everything-is-going-to/
“The numbers have stories: perspectives on the statistics for
Vietnam War resisters in Canada,”
p. 73-76 in
War Resisters in Retrospect : Papers from the 2007 Our Way Home Peace Event and Reunion
Vancouver ; Las Vegas : Joseph Jones ; Lori Olafson, 2009. 112 p.
“The House of Anansi’s singular bestseller.”
Canadian Notes & Queries 61 (2002) 19-22
[about Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada]
“The true meaning of Vancouver.” Vancouver Sun (31 Dec. 1994) D4
[Written with Jack Colhoun] “Future stress: the psychology of exile.” Amex Canada 4:6 / 38 (Jan.-Mar. 1974) 42-44
Conference Presentations
“1970 Was a Singular Anguished Year for Vietnam War Resister
Migration to Canada”
Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace
School of Peace and Conflict Studies of Kent State University /
Peace History Society /
Peace Studies Section of International
Studies Association, Kent State University, 24-26 October 2019
“Testbed for an Approach to Distant Reading:
Fictions that Represent Vietnam War Resisters in Canada”
DHSI Conference and Colloquium (8 June 2019)
Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 3-14
June 2019
“Canadian Mennonite Assistance to American Vietnam War
Refugees”
Historical Perspectives on War, Peace and Religion
Peace History Society, University of Saint Joseph, 22-24 October 2015
Legal Tremors in the Lead-Up to Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games
Recover – Renew – Reimagine
28th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
University of Oregon School of Law, 25-28 February 2010
“Women in the Vietnam-era Exile Movement as Reflected in the
Pages of Amex-Canada Magazine”
Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice
Peace History Society, Georgian Court University, 19-20 October 2007
“The Numbers Have Stories: Perspectives on the Statistics for
Vietnam War Resisters in Canada,”
A New Generation of Research on Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
– Parts I and II (Workshop 8)
Our Way Home Peace Event & Reunion, Brilliant Cultural Center,
Castlegar, B.C., 4-8 July 2007
“Action and Assessment in the First Generation of Writing
about U.S. Vietnam War Resisters in Canada,”
Peace Activism and Scholarship: Historical Perspectives of Social,
Economic, and Political Change
Peace History Society, Winthrop University, 3-5 November 2005
Martianus Capella, the Author within the Text
Authorship: Theory and Practice
34th Medieval Workshop, University of British Columbia, 12-13 November 2004
Intermediation and the Digital Library ALLC/ACH 1998
Podcast Participant
Ren Bangert
The Story of American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
[featuring Bob Waller, Joseph Jones, and Donald Maxwell]
Darts & Letters 193 (27 Feb 2023)
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-story-of-vietnam-war-resisters-in-canada
Reviews
“
Paul Benedikt Glatz, Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes: American Deserters,
International Protest, European Exile, and Amnesty”
Peace & Change 47:3 (July 2022) 282-284
https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12507
“Alice Lynd, Moral Injury & Conscientious Objection: a
Brief Review”
PHS News 193 (Jan 2016) 41-42
http://www.peacehistorysociety.org/news/jan2016.pdf
“Chaotic Fancies,”
Canadian Literature 193 (summer 2007) 163-164
https://canlit.ca/article/chaotic-fancies/
Alberto Manguel. The Library at Night. Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2006
Canadian Book Review Annual 2006
Devin Krukoff. Compensation. Saskatoon : Thistledown Press, 2006 (3067 : 187-188)
Keith Maillard. Looking Good. Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 4. [Edmonton] : Brindle & Glass, c2006 (3077 : 191-192)
Peter Showler. Refugee Sandwich : Stories of Exile and Asylum. Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, c2006 (4066 : 310)
Canadian Book Review Annual 2005
Keith Maillard. Running. Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 1. [Edmonton] : Brindle & Glass, c2005 (3071 : 181)
Stuart Ross. Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Vancouver : Anvil Press, 2005 (2099 : 74-75)
Janice Tait. The Devil’s Snare : a Memoir of Saigon. Toronto : McGilligan Books, 2005 (2109 : 79-80)
John Vaillant. The Golden Spruce : a True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2005 (5031 : 412-413)
Rex Wyler. Greenpeace : How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World. Vancouver : Raincoast Books, 2004 (5023 : 408-409)
Canadian Book Review Annual 2004
Robert Hunter. The Greenpeace to Amchitka : an Environmental Odyssey. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004 (5018 : 440)
Han Zao Li. The Water Lily Pond : a Village Girl’s Journey in Maoist China. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2004 (Life Writing Series) (3065 : 185)
Mary Soderstrom. After Surfing Ocean Beach : a Novel. Toronto : Simon & Pierre, c2004 (3096 : 197)
Willie Thomas. Cristoforo : Strange Tales of a Singular Traveller. St. John’s, Nfld. : Breakwater Books, c2004 (3102 : 200)
Thomas Wharton. The Logogryph : a Bibliography of Imaginary Books. Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press , 2004 (3151 : 219-220)
“Of Wars and the Border,”
Canadian Literature 179 (winter 2003) 142-144
https://canlit.ca/article/of-wars-and-the-border/
John Hagan. Northern Passage : American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001
Frank Kusch. All American Boys : Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001
Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure : The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2001
“Two Wars, Two Histories,”
Canadian Literature 179 (winter 2003) 167-169
https://canlit.ca/article/two-wars-two-histories/
Eric L. Muller. Free to Die for Their Country : The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001
Reporting Vietnam : American Journalism 1959-1975. New York : Library of America, c2000
Early Modern Literary Studies 9:1 (May 2003) 13.1-9
Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram. A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603. Tempe, AZ : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998
Canadian Book Review Annual 2003
Michel Basilières. Black Bird. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2003 (3008 : 152-153)
Brian Burch. Resources for Radicals. 5th ed. Toronto : Toronto Action for Social Change, 2003 (1003 : 10-11)
Brian Busby. Character Parts. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2003 (3258 : 253-254)
Ernie B. Ingles and N. Merrill Distad, eds. Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953. 3rd. ed. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003 (1002 : 10)
Gordon Sheppard. HA! : a Self-Murder Mystery. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003 (2085 : 71-72)
Canadian Book Review Annual 2002
Donna Bennett, Russell Brown, eds. A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada, 2002 (3265 : 238)
Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary. Better to Have Loved : the Life of Judith Merril. Toronto : Between the Lines, 2002 (2071 : 55)
W.H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada, 2002 (1005 : 11)
Ray Robertson. Moody Food. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, c2002 (3098 : 180)
Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding. Mere. Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada, c2001 (3114 : 186)
“A Work of Devotion,”
Canadian Literature 169 (summer 2001) 182-184
https://canlit.ca/article/a-work-of-devotion/
Carl Spadoni. A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock. Toronto : ECW Press, c1998
Canadian Book Review Annual 2001
Richard Teleky. Pack Up the Moon. Toronto : T. Allen, c2001 (3109 : 184-185)
Jack Todd. The Taste of Metal : A Deserter’s Story. Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada, c2001 (2117 : 77)
William Toye, ed. The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2001 (3304 : 258-259)
James J. O’Donnell.
Avatars of the Word : From Papyrus to Cyberspace.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998
Digital Concrete Poetry Experiment
Previous versions of this web site, including abandoned portions, can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones/
Created Spring 1999
Migrated July 2013
Last updated 26 October 2023
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