Joy Kogawa’s novel Obasan, about a Japanese Canadian woman’s childhood experiences in a Canadian internment camp during WW II was an eye-opener. While I had previously heard about the round-up of all Japanese from the west coast and their exile to remote British Columbia towns and prairie farms, the novel brought home not only the […]
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I am writing this on June 21st, the summer solstice. It is also National Indigenous Peoples Day, and special events have been happening all across Canada, recognizing the rich and varied traditions and cultures of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. In last week’s post, I mentioned the exhibit at the Art Gallery of
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It’s International Museum Week and I have five museum discoveries to share: one by a friend who attended the Chinese Canadian Museum in Victoria, two new (and the last for 2022 and the next few years) exhibits at the Royal British Columbia Museum that I attended, and two from on-line sources. My friend May
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This past week, listening to the news around the world, I felt like I was living under a dark cloud. The ongoing war in the Ukraine. The number of people forcibly displaced due to violence or protracted conflict in countries including Ukraine, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Nigeria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
An Honorary Doctorate was conferred on Rev. Catherine A. Hamilton on May 2, 2022, at a joint convocation of the United Theological College and the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. The ceremony was held at Montreal’s Christ Church Cathedral. “An honorary degree is given by a college or university to someone who is not a
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My painting group reconvened last week after a 3 month break. We are a group of retired professional women who met a few years ago at a painting class, and began meeting last fall, at the home of one of the women, to do water colour painting. Although we were each very much looking
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