by Jeanette Taylor | Jun 5, 2016 | BC History Tales, Book & Movie Reviews
Totem Poles and Tea, by Hughina Harold A Stellar Example of a Memoir with a Focused Theme Every writer hopes their book will be in print a decade after its release—but that’s not often the case—especially with local history memoirs. The first edition of Totem Poles...
by Jeanette Taylor | Dec 31, 2015 | BC History Tales
A Lesson in Inequity Remembering one of Quadra Island, BC’s First Schools Katie Walker’s childhood home, at the Methodist Mission in the We-Wai-Kai people’s village, was too far away for her to attend Quadra Island’s new public school. But after her parents took...
by Jeanette Taylor | Oct 5, 2015 | BC History Tales
A Century Old Grave at Bold Point, BC Lily Joy Ward’s writing still sparkles with vitality and personality in the essays, letters and poems she wrote for the BC coast magazine, The Log of the Columbia, over a century ago. She wanted to be remembered–but...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jul 20, 2015 | BC History Tales
Let’s Change the Name Mount Waddington to Mount Klatsassin Bute Inlet has some of the most dramatic mountain scenery on the BC coast. Dr. Rod Nugent, on board a recent Mothership Adventures cruise, likened the fjord to the Grand Canyon. The highest mountain in...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jun 15, 2015 | BC History Tales
A Mystery Grave on West Redonda Island, BC A forgotten gravestone gives us a lonely sense of the transitory nature of life. Quadruple the effect when it’s a headstone lost in a tangle of overgrowth on an uninhabited stretch of the BC coast. Mike Moore of Misty Isles...
by Jeanette Taylor | May 30, 2015 | BC History Tales
Searching for Daisy on Read Island & in Port Neville, BC Here’s a guest post from Lois Wade, with a second installment of the story of her discovery of her grandmother Daisy Lang’s hidden childhood. See the full story of the love triangle and murder...
