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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 13, 2010 19:55:15 GMT -8
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Aug 14, 2010 22:24:07 GMT -8
Thanks to all who have read this trip-blog and hopefully enjoyed it. I do this kind of work to help me to remember my trip details and to organize my "thoughts and conclusions" on various things that I encountered on my trip. I did read it all, and I did enjoy it. My computer is painfully slow to load photos, so I just had to sit back and wait for a while, but it was worth it. Very good chronicle of a visit to a beautiful part of our province. I think you deserve the 2010 Horst Koehler Memorial Travel Reporter Award, Ferries Forum Division. (Horst Koehler, '50s Vancouver radio personality, and host of CHAN-TV's travel show, which started in 1962 and ran for fourteen years.) |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 15, 2010 11:38:02 GMT -8
I think you deserve the 2010 Horst Koehler Memorial Travel Reporter Award, Ferries Forum Division. Thanks for the kind words, Neil. I'm even more thankful that you didn't nominate me for the "Leah McLaren meaningful-writing" prize. ----------- Looking back on our trip, my wife & I thought of a few places that we want to see more of (or just see for the first time), next time that we're in that region of BC: - Fort St. James, to see the HBC fort. - Barkerville. It's been a long time since we've been there. - some of the remote historic sites on Moresby Island in Haida Gwaii. - Canada Place, to watch the onions being loaded. |
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 15, 2010 12:23:10 GMT -8
- Canada Place, to watch the onions being loaded. Definitely my favorite of the four. So educative. Teaches you so much about the complexity and intricacy of large quantities of onions on big ships. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 15, 2010 12:44:07 GMT -8
- Canada Place, to watch the onions being loaded. Definitely my favorite of the four. So educative. Teaches you so much about the complexity and intricacy of large quantities of onions on big ships. Not only educative to the extreme, but also ripe with satire & parody potential. After all, the word "Onion" is practically synonymous with satire. ;D |
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Post by BreannaF on Aug 15, 2010 13:26:03 GMT -8
I just wanted to thank you for putting all of this together. My wife and I sat down over the computer to share your adventure, one that we have always wanted to do someday, but may or may not ever find the time to accomplish. Thanks for letting us look over your shoulder!
One of the beauties of what you put here was the opportunity to see this land through the eyes of people like ourselves, who have a natural curiosity to see how others live and what the world looks like around the corner. This is something you can't get from a commercial website (trying to sell you something) or most travel writers (again, indirectly, trying to sell you something).
So thank you for sharing your trip with us.
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And now, I also know more than I ever wanted to know on the effects of Allium cepa upon modern luxury sea transportation. ;D
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Post by FerryDude2012 on Aug 15, 2010 14:31:46 GMT -8
Yes Flugel, thank you for sharing every single part of your trip with us. I really enjoyed reading your descriptions and experiences of your trip, and seeing how beautiful it is up north. I've never been up to the North Coast of BC, so it was really nice to see how it looks up there. Hopefully, I'm able to go there soon, but for now I just have to wait. Once again, thanks for your whole trip report.  |
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 15, 2010 16:59:56 GMT -8
Yes Flugel, thank you for sharing every single part of your trip with us. I really enjoyed reading your descriptions and experiences of your trip, and seeing how beautiful it is up north. I've never been up to the North Coast of BC, so it was really nice to see how it looks up there. Hopefully, I'm able to go there soon, but for now I just have to wait. Once again, thanks for your whole trip report. Get your Dad to transfer to the NorEx  Personally, the North Coast of BC is my favorite place I've been to. It's so pristine, undisturbed, natural, and quiet up there. |
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Post by FerryDude2012 on Aug 15, 2010 19:34:53 GMT -8
Yes Flugel, thank you for sharing every single part of your trip with us. I really enjoyed reading your descriptions and experiences of your trip, and seeing how beautiful it is up north. I've never been up to the North Coast of BC, so it was really nice to see how it looks up there. Hopefully, I'm able to go there soon, but for now I just have to wait. Once again, thanks for your whole trip report. Get your Dad to transfer to the NorEx Personally, the North Coast of BC is my favorite place I've been to. It's so pristine, undisturbed, natural, and quiet up there. There's an idea I doubt he would go for it, although he has worked up north on the Queen of the North and Queen of Prince Rupert in the '70s. After seeing Flugel's trip report, I'm determined to head up north sometime soon. |
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Post by Northern Exploration on Aug 16, 2010 7:44:51 GMT -8
Definitely my favorite of the four. So educative. Teaches you so much about the complexity and intricacy of large quantities of onions on big ships. Not only educative to the extreme, but also ripe with satire & parody potential. After all, the word "Onion" is practically synonymous with satire. ;D Raspberry also has a number of meanings  . Thanks for your travelogue Flug. Between your account and my friends brief comments on her AMHS trip, I am itching to do either trip soon. And there is no cream at the drugstore to satisfy this type of itch. If someone had to be the one to peel and chop those onions there might be a different feeling to the comments. The worst job at a steakhouse I know is to do the early day prep and be on onion duty. They take turns. Other well known places buy pre-chopped refrigerated or frozen onions. That Old School group "No More Tears" comes to mind. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 24, 2010 9:41:50 GMT -8
- take a look at the pole with the bird on top. We drove the short distance off the highway into Gitanyow, a place that Emily Carr visited in 1928 to paint the scenes of totem poles. I visited the UBC Museum of Anthropology on 9/21/2010, and was surprised to see the following item in the great-hall. Surprised, because I knew that I'd seen it before, in northern BC in July. - the pole with the bird on top.   So I asked one of the museum employees, and the employee explained that the museum item was the original, and I would have seen a replica on-site in the village. I looked in the museum's reference-book on the great-hall poles, and found this description for this pole in question:   |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 24, 2010 21:46:08 GMT -8
On Sept.21, 2010, I visited the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. This was a trip-idea born from my experiences in July visiting Haida Gwaii and Northern BC. Many of the 1st-Nations artefacts from the 19th & 1st-half of the 20th centuries were removed from their sites during museum-expeditions in the 1950's, and taken away to museums. - as noted in the previous post, the museums purchased/acquired these items, in return to doing academic research and professional preservation of the items. This artefact-captivity is a divisive issue, but for me to walk into the UBC-MOA and behold the Great-Hall of totems was a powerful experience. I'm glad that they were preserved. And if the established museums hadn't have done that in the mid 20th century, then those items would have been lost forever. ------------------ The UBC-MOA is world class, awe-inspiring, and easy to get to.... - $15.68 gets you in the door, and I spent 4 hours there enjoying my time and repeatedly saying "wow.....". www.moa.ubc.ca/The building is an old military station (gun station?), as evidenced by some gun-turret structures.  - The museum's most famous item (Bill Reid's "Raven and the First Men") is placed in such a gun-turret that is inside the building. More on that item soon. Outside, the view to the North-Shore mountains is spectacular.  Included on the outside grounds is a replication of part of the Ninstints village site (the UNESCO world heritage site on Anthony Island, at the bottom of Gwaii Haanas park). - the village replication is on the right-side of the photo.   - this is one of the rare instances where the replica is at the Museum, and the original is still on-site. Well this is only partially true. The village site is still located on Anthony Island, but it's very decayed. Some poles remain at the site, and have been structurally reinforced (with Haida permission) at the site. But other poles (or parts of poles) were moved to the museum in the 1950's.......and I've shown some below. Here's the Parks Canada web-page on the SGang Gwaay Llnagaay UNESCO world heritage site. www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/bc/gwaiihaanas/edu/edu1c.aspxArtefact-harvesting in the 1950's was done by academics including academic/artist/Haida Bill Reid. - see this explanatory item in the Museum.  - and here's the same item, preserved in the Museum, as I saw it on Tuesday.  ...and some of the items harvested in the early/mid 20th century were just fragments then, but are still preserved......showing that items had already decayed even by the time of this harvest-expedition. - this matches history time-line of village-decay, due to circumstances arising from contact.  |
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Post by Scott on Sept 24, 2010 22:51:07 GMT -8
Nice photos, Mike. I've never actually been in the museum. However, during my two years at UBC, I had my lunch down there almost every day. The lake outside must be a new addition... looks nice.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 25, 2010 11:03:21 GMT -8
Continuing with some photos of the UBC Museum of Anthropology, from 9/21/2010: ------------------ The great-hall at the museum is aptly named. Many original poles (or fragments) dating from the 19th century, from a variety of BC 1st-Nations.    - it was somewhat entertaining to hear the Oriental tourist group pronouncing the BC 1st-Nations names.   --------------- Here's the front & back of a series of poles from Haida Gwaii.   |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 25, 2010 11:24:52 GMT -8
A couple more items from the great hall at the UBC-MOA: - I like the detail on this Haida item.  - this is a Bill Reid bear sculpture.  --------------------- A new part of the UBC-MOA opened in early 2010, and is their "Multiversity exhibits". These have lots of viewable artefacts both in display cases and below the cases in many pull-out drawers. - there are items from cultures all around the world (it was interesting to compare Maori to BC, for example), and on most of BC's 1st Nations groups.  In my recent studies on BC 1st-Nations art, I was surprised that one of the major groups for art & history is from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly Kwakiutl) group of 1st-Nations. These are located in northern Vancouver Island, and the coastal inlets across Johnstone Strait (ie Kingcome Inlet). What surprised me is just how major a player this group is re historical 1st Nations art. - here is part of a large display of their potlatch masks (hey, if the Federal Gov't outlaws the potlatch, then the owners will have no use for these ceremonial masks, and they'll sell them. That's exactly what happened.)  This item cracked me up. ;D - Some Haida cedar-bark woven hats. On the right is a traditional design. - on the left is a ball-cap style, with the team-name "Haida" on it.  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 25, 2010 11:45:15 GMT -8
The Bill Reid sculpture "The Raven and the First Men" is one of the most important pieces of visual art in BC, maybe in all of Canada.  - the workers are a who's-who of Haida art. Guujaaw is currently the Chief of the Haida Nation. Jim Hart is a well known Masset carver (no, he's not the "mouth of the south" guy, in case any wrestling fans are wondering ;D). - The yellow-cedar sculpture is located in the Bill Reid rotunda of the UBC-MOA, in an area of the building that was a gun-turret.  It was amazing to behold. A similar sense of awe to when you first see a beautiful ship ;D. But seriously, it's one of the most beautiful pieces of art that I've ever seen in-person, and the story to the piece is an important part of Haida mythology.  - similar to the catholicism-drenched art of Europe, you don't have to believe the story's details in order to appreciate the art work. The art work is worth much more than $20 Cdn.  Here's a look from different angles.       - and a close-up of some of the guys in the clam-shell.  |
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 25, 2010 13:09:42 GMT -8
I did a project on Bill Reid last year in school. He was an interesting guy, to say the least.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 20, 2012 11:49:53 GMT -8
Video walk-around of Bill Reid's "The Raven and the First Men" sculpture at UBC MOA:
- from October 2010.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 3, 2012 8:28:10 GMT -8
A few YouTube videos that I compiled, from clips from this 2010 trip.
Crunch crunch crunch, goes the lava when I'm walking in the Nisga'a lands
Walking around in Stewart & Hyder:
3 Bridge video:
- 2 of them are from this 2010 trip (Nass River and Lillooet)
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