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Lucky Stories ‘Voices of British Columbia’ author Robert ‘Lucky’ Budd will be in Nanaimo as part of the Vancouver Island Children’s Bookfest at Diana Krall Plaza on May 2
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Robert ‘Lucky’ Budd will be at the Vancouver Island Children’s Book Festival in Nanaimo on May 2. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED]
Top author has released five books in the last year
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uch of Robert “Lucky” Budd’s career as an author can be traced back to one event — the discovery of an audio archive that, to him, was like uncovering buried treasure. Hired by the CBC in 2000 to be their audio preservationist, Budd was asked to digitize an oral history collection of interviews gathered by one of their journalists, Imbert Orchard. As he began to wade through the material, he was struck by its significance. One of the largest oral history collections in the world, Orchard had travelled throughout British Columbia in the early 1960s and interviewed almost a thousand of the province’s earliest first-generation pioneers and First Nations people.
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“They’re basically talking the Orchard archive into a book, about their experiences as BritVoices of British Columbia. ish Columbia went from a place When that book became a with literally 200 nonnational bestseller, native people in 1858 Budd’s career as an to 400,000 by the First author and historian World War,” said Budd. was born. It took Budd four These days are a whirlyears to listen to the wind of activity for entire archive, and as he Budd, who has released did, it became clear that five books in the last what lay before him was year, including Echoes of enormous importof British Columbia, ance, something much which also utilizes the larger than simply an Orchard interviews, and Julie archival project. Orca Chief, the third Chadwick “I thought to myself, in a four-part series Reporting ‘I can’t leave this as a of stunning children’s finding aid for the CBC, books he has authored I have to turn this into in collaboration with something,’” said Budd. prominent Canadian artist Roy From there, he decided to purHenry Vickers. sue a master’s degree in oral Next week he will visit a history at the University of Vicvariety of local elementary toria and by 2010, he had turned schools to read from the series in
advance of the Vancouver Island Children’s Bookfest, which takes place in and around Diana Krall Plaza on May 2. As a student at Oak Bay high school, Vickers would go down to the museum to conduct research and ended up listening to the tapes in the Orchard collection. “Fast forward 35, 40 years later, I get a phone call one day saying ‘Hi I’m Roy Henry Vickers and I’m looking for some of these recordings I listened to 40 years ago, I hear you’re the guy to help me find them, they’ve had a huge influence on my art,” said Budd. The two became fast friends, and through an ongoing collaboration to write Vickers’ memoir, the idea for the children’s books was born.
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A Nanaimo dentist is safe but stranded in Nepal after Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,500 people. Sanjivan Mahara, who is a native of Nepal, was staying at a hotel in Dhangadhi at the time of the earthquake and has been reporting the situation from his Facebook account. “We are safe but all flights are cancelled, so we are stuck here in Dhangadhi,” Mahara said. Mahara continued to feel powerful aftershocks on Sunday. “Oh my god, I felt another jolt and we all ran outside from (the) second floor. Water in an aquarium in (the) hallway shook like a tsunami, he posted on Sunday.” Mahara expects to stay in Dhangadhi for at least one more day. He enlisted the help of a local friend who managed to book a flight Monday evening. “It is not advisable to travel by road. There is a risk of landslide and traffic jam on highways.” Former Nanaimo city councillor Merv Unger Merv Unger, who has been in direct contact with Mahara, said Mahara and others he’s with are sleeping outside in fear of another major quake. Witnessing how courageously the Nepalese people are handling the earthquake has made Mahara proud of his roots. “It is amazing to see such strong social connections here, everybody is helping each other and families and friends are coming together,” he said. “They all stayed connected, even friends of our friends whom I have never met come to check up on us and are ready to extend help in this town of far western Nepal. The Foreign Affairs Department said there are 388 Canadians registered as being in Nepal, but cautioned that is only an estimate as registration is voluntary.
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