Visitors to Victoria, British Columbia’s inner harbor cannot fail to notice the bronze statue situated at the corner of Government and Belleville Streets, catty-corner to the British Columbia Parliament Buildings. It is of an older woman, surrounded by animals, the most prominent of which is a small monkey perched upon her right shoulder. The woman, of course, if the famous Canadian author and artist Emily Carr; the monkey is the nearly-as-famous Woo.
Whenever I get the opportunity for a vacation, my family and I invariably head north to one of the many idyllic towns and villages along the Salish Sea. Thus when a copy of the recently published “Views of the Salish Sea; One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia” arrived on my desk, you can imagine how delighted I was.
As one who has travelled widely around the world, I have in the course of my journeys discovered many places that I found beautiful, fascinating, relaxing, or pure and simply enjoyable; however of all the corners of the globe into which my adventures have taken me, none has lodged itself in my heart the way […]
With summer in full swing, many people are heading off for vacation. For those of us in the Pacific Northwest, that often means Vancouver Island, particularly beautiful Victoria and its surroundings.