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Letters May 25: B.C.'s COVID response; saving the Island's rail corridor; the costs of inflation timescolonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timescolonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021 Summer Reading Guide - Canada's History canadashistory.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from canadashistory.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some might say it’s preposterous to think an overview of a massive story repository such as Craigdarroch Castle can be reduced to not even two dozen objects. … Why twenty-one objects? The number may seem a bit arbitrary, but it comes from the desire to vary the story of the castle’s nineteenth-century beginnings and carry it forward to the current century for contemporary readers and for future generations, with each object used as a hook on which to hang a story and offer some context and tangential information. Craigdarroch Castle houses more than just the stories of the shipping, railway, and coal baron (and western Canada’s richest man, for a time) Robert Dunsmuir, his wife, Joan, and the fractious, fractured family he left behind. It also cradles the stories of the maimed and shell-shocked men sent home by the Empire after the Great War and cared for from 1919 to 1921 at Craigdarroch Military Hospital, as well as those of Victoria College, the Victoria Cons ....
Book cover: Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures by Moira Dann Sometimes it is difficult to know when to let go, or when to hang on and preserve; these two books provide both completely opposite perspectives, but each are very culturally significant. Totem Hosaqami, The Pole With Two Lives by Graeme Teague and David Vaughan (2020, 18Rabbit Press, Inc.) tells the remarkable and moving story of a totem pole named Hosaqami, meaning in the Kwakiutl language, “he who owns this pole is a man of integrity in his society.” The totem pole was carved in B.C. in 1959 by Chief Mungo Martin, his adoptive grandson Tony Hunt, and Tony’s father Henry, and was a gift from the graduates of the Royal Canadian Navy to their base colleagues whom they had trained with on Whale Island, just off the south coast of England. The pole proudly made its way to its British home (via Halifax) aboard HMCS Kootenay in 1960 where it was accompanied by 15 naval officers, all of First Nation descent. ....