by Jeanette Taylor | Mar 12, 2019 | BC History Tales
There’s a Sasquatch on Quadra Island, BC A lifelike sculpture of a sasquatch at Quadra Island’s Rebecca Spit Park is headed south at a brisk stride. His shaggy body, tapered fingers and beady eyes express movement and determination, though he was crafted entirely from...
by Jeanette Taylor | Apr 16, 2018 | BC History Tales
Leaving Behind the Known World: The James and Isabella Robb Family of Comox, BC This is the first in a series of mini-portraits of 20th century immigrants to British Columbia, exploring what compelled them to leave their homes–and what they found in their new...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jul 23, 2017 | BC History Tales
The Mysterious Deaths of Harpur and Margaret Nixon of Twin Islands, BC Reverend Harpur Colville Nixon, a well-to-do Anglo-Irish gentleman, bought Twin Islands, BC in 1912 or 1913. He and his wife had a farm on Denman Island so this new place was purchased as a haven...
by Jeanette Taylor | May 23, 2017 | BC History Tales
Settler Women’s Hidden Lives Charlotte Galley of Victoria & Mary Ann Galley of Harbledown Island Marriage was a gamble for Victorian women, a decision based upon intuition and promises. And it was for keeps, no matter what a husband’s life choices might...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jan 11, 2017 | BC History Tales
The Big Winter Mary Bryant’s First Year on Quadra Island, BC Loneliness plagued most of the bachelors who settled on the Discovery Islands in the 1890s, when the Euro-Canadian gender balance was about ten men to one woman. It wasn’t so bad in spring and...
by Jeanette Taylor | Aug 31, 2016 | BC History Tales
Maria Carlotta Boond’s Tangled Web There were no twists of smoke rising from Maria Boond’s chimney. Nor were there any tracks in the snow around her cottage on the hill overlooking a jumble of seine boats and trollers in Quathiaski Cove. That was odd. But lots of...
