Paul Kane Sketch Brought to Life at the Royal BC Museum
In the 1970s, I was aware of an old lantern slide in the Royal BC Museum ethnology collection that I later identified as […]
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A First Nations Shell Midden on Raymur Point, Victoria Harbour
There is an ancient archaeological shell midden – the refuse from what was once, at least, a seasonal camp on Raymur Point at […]
Terry Fox and Family
Right now at the Royal BC Museum, Family: Bonds and Belonging is running concurrently with Terry Fox: Running to the Heart of Canada. The two […]
Dispersal or Dimensional Diminution
A little while back I was musing over a spot on my Wall Lizard map that shows a large expanse east of Highway […]
Lizard in a Snake Plant
Another lizard arrived in BC last week. We can add Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei) to our list of accidental imports – but this […]
Architectural artifacts
The Victoria Eaton Centre was built in 1989. One of the conditions of construction was the promise to maintain the facades of the […]