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William Duncan in Metlakatla
From In the Wake of the War Canoe by William Collison. The story of Metlakatla is a quintessentially British Columbia story, which, in the middle of the 19th century, represented the farthest, deepest reaches of the British Empire. The founding of the community represented an experiment in Christian Utopianism, an experiment that failed, among […]
The Black Death in European Art
May 6, 2013
When the Black Death came to Europe in 1348, it brought a plague Europeans had never seen before, slaughtering far and wide with unprecedented ferocity. Before it left, after that first sweep through (it was to return again and again through the centuries) one third of Europe was dead. It was a kind of collapse […]
The Mad Gardener’s Song by Lewis Carroll
March 12, 2013
It is not well-known that, beside the Alice books, Lewis Carroll wrote another nonsense novel, Sylvie and Bruno (1889). The Alice books are masterpieces. Sylvie and Bruno is laboured and tedious, unfunny and unexciting, and for the most part, well forgotten. The exception is the following poem which appears as a refrain, a verse at a time […]
Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific
November 12, 2012
A Tale of the Original Moby Dick From the era when whales were monsters, and their hunters were heroes. As they thought. The original story as presented below is not for the tender-hearted. It was a brutal era. Of course everybody is familiar, in one way or other, with the most famous of whaling stories, […]
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
August 23, 2012
(From Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.) The Walrus and the Carpenter ‘The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright— And this was odd, because it was The middle of the […]
Dressing Up as Indians
July 12, 2012
When Princess Liz (as she then was) arrived in Vancouver, she and her significant other were welcomed to a teepee and a phalanx of (presumably) real Indians dressed up as (obviously) fake Indians. It was 1951. With revisions to the Indian Act, Canada had just made being culturally-Indian legal that year, and most Indians didn’t actually […]
Marxist-Leninist Credit Cards
June 20, 2012
Because you haven’t had your recommended daily dose of irony for today, I present to you the Karl Marx credit card. If you are fortunate enough to have Sparkasse Chemnitz as your bank, it offers a bust of the venerable coauthor of the Communist Manifesto which you may present every time you wish to make […]
Self-Portrait (2006) by Haisla Collins
October 30, 2011
Self-Portrait (2006) by Haisla Collins. http://www.haislacollins.ca/
Some Visions From Haiti
September 16, 2011
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
Klick This Pic
An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
May 20, 2013
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