– war hero with a colourful heritage and the prospect of a large inheritance to come. She, on the other hand, was the 16-year-old daughter of a modest Edinburgh fishing tackle maker, whose reputation her family were anxious to protect. The questions that swirled around their relationship would be picked over in a court case that could easily have slipped straight from the love-struck world of the Bridgertons. The question of whether Major William Steuart, VC, went down on bended knee one February night in 1866 to take teenage Mary Wilson as his wife led to the highest court in the land.
First Nations face an uphill battle getting revenues from Hydro-Québec By Kevin Dougherty. Published on Apr 6, 2021 5:31pm Billy Diamond, then-grand chief of the Cree (left), and then-Quebec Justice minister Gérard D. Levesque, sign the James Bay agreement on Nov. 11, 1975. (Photo supplied by the Cree Nation of Waskaganish)
A coalition of First Nations from Quebec, Labrador, and Maine is opposing a proposed transmission line to carry Hydro-Québec electricity to New England, on the grounds that 36 per cent of Hydro-Québec’s energy is “stolen” from the First Nations on whose territory the electricity is produced, and that the transmission line will have an adverse environmental impact in Maine.
Artist ready for Open Studios take 2 after year of cancellations
8 Mar, 2021 02:55 AM
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Artist Pauline Allomes outside her Barrack St studio. Photo / Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every Wednesdaypaul.brooks@nzme.co.nz
Artist Pauline Allomes had to cancel all her Open Studios plans last year: this year it s all on again and she has lots of new work or reworked older work.
One was a pencil drawing of the Rangitikei River. I quite liked it, but I decided to do something with it. It s pastel and paint on top of pencil and a little bit of Indian ink. Now it looks very different.
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