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The Museum at Campbell River will offer a presentation on Wednesday, November 8, from 7 pm to 9 pm, on the fish traps and clam garden research work conducted by the Hamalta Treaty Society. During the summer of 2006, the Hamatla Treaty Society (HTS) conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Johnstone Strait and Comox areas. The HTS conducted the work with funding from the British Columbia Capacity Initiative Program through the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Prior to the fieldwork, fish traps had been documented throughout the Johnstone Strait and Comox areas, but the HTS believed that there were others that had been overlooked by archaeologists. The HTS also believed that there were hundreds of clam gardens that were yet to be documented. Thus, the focus of the fieldwork was the identification of fish traps and clam gardens. During June and July, 2006, when the tides were low, HTS crews, supported by archaeologist, Bjorn Simonsen, geomorphologist, John Harper and anthropologist, Deidre Cullon, surveyed beaches throughout Johnstone Strait. Dozens of fish trap complexes were identified and more than 100 new clam gardens were documented in an area where there had been no previously documented or registered sites. The crews recorded the GPS locations of the traps and clam gardens, took photographs and, for the fish traps, collected numerous samples of fish trap stakes for study and radio carbon dating. On November 8, 2006, Bjorn Simonsen and Deidre Cullon will present to the community, the findings of the research, including radiocarbon date results from the samples collected from various fish traps. The cost is $5.00. Please call 287-3103 to pre-register. Everyone is welcome.
October 24, 2006 | Tips from Us >
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Join expert sailors Anne & Laurence Yeadon-Jones for a lively presentation of personal cruising experiences at the Museum at Campbell River in Campbell River, BC, on Sunday, November 5 at 1:00pm.
The presentation, titled “A Summer in the Broughtons,” focuses on where to cruise in the exquisite Broughton Archipelago. Gorgeous colour photography and stories about the Yeadon-Jones’s own adventures will entertain and inform both the serious sailor and armchair traveller.
In recent years BC coast boaters have been discovering an exciting new world of cruising north of Desolation Sound, but unfamiliarity with the complex maze of islands and inlets often referred to as the Broughton Archipelago has deterred many yachters. Now, Anne and Laurence Yeadon-Jones, whose four classic guides on southern waters have made them the coast’s favourite cruising writers, weigh in with their long-awaited fifth volume, The Broughtons and Vancouver Island—Kelsey Bay to Port Hardy, on this fascinating cruising territory.
Taking up where Volume 2, Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands, left off, Volume 5 includes all of the familiar features that make the Dreamspeaker series the incredibly popular cruising guides that they are. Numerous charts and aerial photos clearly delineate the safest routes north into Queen Charlotte Strait and the myriad islands surrounding it. Laurence’s whimsical hand-drawn maps expose the dangers and attractions of key anchorages among the maze-like passages with matchless clarity. Anne’s buoyant commentary draws on her own exhaustive research to evoke the mythic past of this “Kwakiutl Country” and provides a knowing guide to hidden treasures and not-to-be missed attractions. Laurence’s fine scenic photography adds the crowning touch to one of the most handsome marine guides on the coast.
Anne and Laurence Yeadon-Jones are experienced inshore and offshore sailors who have logged thousands of hours cruising, charting and photographing British Columbia’s co
October 19, 2006 | Tips from Us >
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During the Second World War thousands of European women married Canadian servicemen stationed overseas. The Canadian government assisted the couples after the end of the war by providing transportation to Canada. Most of the brides came to Canada in 1946, with a total of 48,000 women emigrating to Canada between 1942 and 1948. The war brides came from all over the United Kingdom and from nearly every country on the European continent, but the vast majority (93%) were British, no doubt due to the fact that Canadians were among the first to come to the assistance of Britain after war was declared in 1939 and they spent more time there than any other member of the Allied Forces. The impact on the development of Canada by these new ‘brides’ was enormous.
The Museum at Campbell River, as part of its Living History Series, will present an afternoon honouring Canadian ‘War Brides’. On Saturday, November 4 from 1pm – 3 pm, the Museum will present a social afternoon designed to pay tribute to local War Brides. In April of this year, the BC government declared 2006 to be the ‘Year of the War Bride’, a fitting tribute to follow 2005’s ‘Year of the Veteran’. The stories of War Brides form a tapestry that weaves together much of the history of Canada after WWII. Many of the new arrivals found it difficult to adapt to their new country, shocked to discover wood stoves and outhouses – items common to Canadian rural areas. Overcoming loneliness, isolation, homesickness and (many times) abandonment, these women’s stories are a testament to the strength of immigrants that have built the Canadian identity.
Please come to the Museum on Nov. 4 to hear some of these stories and meet our local War Bride ‘legends’. The re-issued War Bride Cookbook (given to new brides entering Canada in 1946) will be available for purchase, as will the official War Bride Pin. The cost for the afternoon is $5.00. War Brides are free!! Phone 287-3103 for more information.