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Selkirk, SD8 to host virtual keynote by writer, activist Desmond Cole SUBMITTED BY SELKIRK COLLEGE Black Press

Deepening understanding of racism on a global and local level is the focus of a Selkirk College Mir Centre for Peace Lecture featuring Canadian writer and activist Desmond Cole. In partnership with School District 8, Selkirk College is hosting an anti-racism and intercultural awareness event on Oct. 23 for all citizens of the region. The day of learning includes a virtual keynote speech from Cole that begins at 9 a.m. via Zoom. “Desmond Cole has emerged as a vital voice for what we are seeing across Canada when it comes to awareness of how systemic racism impacts and devastates the lives of far too many people,” says Jennie Barron, chair of the Mir Centre for Peace. “We are pleased to have Desmond bring his perspective Author and activist Desmond Cole will the keynote speaker at an Oct. 23 event being put on by Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace and School District 8. Cole is the author to participants in this of the bestselling book The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, which was released in January. Photo: Kate Yang-Nikodym virtual day of learning. and ultimately make a Deer, Alta., to parents His insight will help difference in our local who immigrated to Canada from Sierra build a foundation of communities.” better understanding Cole was born in Red Leone. The 38 year old grew up in Oshawa, Ont., and came to prominence in 2015 when he wrote a cover Mon - Sat 9 am - 6 pm • Sun 9 am - 5 pm story for Toronto Life Grocery • Garden Centre • Fruit & Produce • Locally Grown magazine about his Local Grand Forks grown own experience of Fireworks from our own farm for Halloween being stopped by poHoney Crisp ¢ LARGE SELECTION lice in Canada’s larg/lb Apples est city more than 50 $ 99 $ 99 20 lb bag 40 lb box times. As a journalist Gala, Golden Delicious and and activist, Cole has Red Delicious ¢ become a prominent /lb Apples leader in the anti-rac$ 99 $ 99 20 lb bag 40 lb box ism movement. Pie Pumpkin $ 50 each Cole released his first Anjou and Golden Bosc Pears (winter keepers) book, The Skin We’re Pumpkins $ 99 each ¢ ¢ In: A Year of Black ReLARGE SELECTION Reg. size 20 lb+ /lb sistance and Power, in Local Red, Russian and Yukon Gold Eagle Valley January and it quickWood Pellets Potatoes $ 99 ly became a Canadian $ $ 99 50 lb sack /ton /bag bestseller. The book Monday, November 9, 2020 (60 bags) chronicles the year Locally Grown Spray Free Produce Fall Flower Bulbs 6:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm MT $ 00 2017, where Cole capKale LARGE SELECTION /bunch tures the perspective Winter Green and Red Red Russian Garlic of Black Canadians’ ¢ Cabbage $ 99 79 /lb This year it’s easier than ever to attend our AGM. NO LIMIT /lb struggle against racism Log on from anywhere and be a part of it. Everyone is welcome. and puts the broader Field Tomatoes Winter Squash Semi-Ripe, ¢ ¢ $ 49 issue of entrenched 20 lb+ Green

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inequality into perspective. “Clearly the issue of racism in all forms has been thrust to the top of newsfeeds in the last few months, but Desmond has been doing important advocacy work for many years,” says Barron. “His lecture will provide an opportunity for locals to gain deeper knowledge and incorporate the ideas that emerge into their own work in our region.” The Oct. 23 day-long event is titled Perspective. Learning. Hope: Shifting Our Focus Through Awareness. The Mir Centre for Peace is working with both School District 8 and Selkirk International to present a virtual event that includes an international student panel consisting of both high school and post-secondary learners, breakout discussion groups and an intercultural awareness activity. The day will also feature presentations by community members active in anti-racism work and a dropin virtual expo with businesses and organizations committed to furthering intercultural awareness. External sponsors of the event include the Trail Community Skills Centre, Trail FAIR, West Kootenay EcoSociety, Kootenay Career Development Society, Nelson Community Christian School, Ecole des Sentiers-Alpins and the West Kootenay Boundary Local Government Management Association. The entire event is open to all community members and offered free. Pre-registration is required to gain access to the Zoom link. You can find more information at: https:// selkirk.ca/event/anti-racism-day.

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West Kootenay/Boundary’s first Doukhobors by JONATHAN KALMAKOFF and GREG NESTEROFF

Between 1908 and 1912, about 8,000 Doukhobors migrated to British Columbia from Saskatchewan to maintain their communal lifestyle. But for several years prior, small groups of Doukhobors had been travelling to BC to seek employment — and coincidentally or not, to the very region where their brethren would one day move en masse. During their early period of settlement on the Canadian Prairies, able-bodied Doukhobor men left their villages in Saskatchewan each spring to find work as farm labourers and railway navvies to earn much-needed money for the community, as most settlers were almost destitute. Most journeyed by foot and obtained employment within a 100 to 150-mile radius of their villages. Less frequently, some small groups and individuals travelled even further afoot. For instance, 200 travelled to California to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad Coast line in 1900, and in 1901, a smaller group worked on the Ontario & Rainy River Railway line between Baudette, Minnesota and Fort Frances, Ontario. That same year, dozens made their way across the border to Pembina, North Dakota to assist with the fall harvest. The first sign of a Doukhobor presence in BC was in the Midway Advance of May 7, 1900: “Mr. A.J. Flett has returned safely from Grand Forks where he has been gathering information about a party of Doukhobors that are said to have arrived in that district.” There was considerable industrial activity in and around Grand Forks in 1900 and the Doukhobors may have been hired as labourers at the newly-operational Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. smelter, the 10-stamp mill construction for the Yankee Girl and Yankee Boy mines on Hardy Mountain, at the Franklin Camp mine, the Charles Simpson or Ed Spraggett sawmills on the North Fork of the Kettle River, or building the CPR Eholtto-Phoenix extension. But no other references to this group can be found (the Grand Forks newspapers for this period are missing), so it’s hard to know whether they were seasonal labourers or just passing through. Flett’s role, if anything more than just curious onlooker, is unclear; his name otherwise only showed up in local newspapers in relation to mining claims. Was he sizing up the Doukhobors as potential workers for those claims? We know slightly more about the next group of Doukhobors in BC. In October 1901, 16 Doukhobor men in Calgary had a chance encounter with former Rossland police chief John Ingram, who had been recruited to find replacement workers for the Le Roi mine during a miners’ strike. These men were likely the same Doukhobors

Doukhobor workers on construction of the railroad from Yorkton to Canora, Saskatchewan, ca. 1910. Tarasoff Collection/ BC Archives C-06515 employed as track maintenance on the CPR Calgary division who took part in a nationwide strike from June to late August 1901 and who would not have knowingly taken jobs as replacement workers out of solidarity with the striking miners. According to the Nelson Tribune, “Ingram positively assured them that the labour troubles [in Rossland] were all settled; that 300 union men had returned to work and that 150 union men had applied to the Le Roi company for work but the company did not want them.” However, he apparently misrepresented the situation. The 16 Doukhobors were among 67 men who left Calgary with Ingram. When they arrived at West Robson to switch trains for Rossland, they discovered the true state of affairs and 10 of them refused to continue. Another 23 men reached the boarding house of the War Eagle mine in Rossland — including the Doukhobors, who spoke little or no English. The cooks and waiters there refused to serve them and they were finally sent off to a cabin to do their own cooking. A union miner visited the party and left some literature explaining the dispute. Few if any Doukhobor recruits would have had mining experience; the Rossland Evening World, a labour paper, suggested it would take about two years for them to learn to be muckers, which seems to have been a thinly-veiled insult, as mucking involved shoveling broken rock into tram cars. The rival Rossland Miner didn’t identify the men as Doukhobors, but it would not have been in their interest to do so as a pro-management paper. Instead the Miner described them as “as fine a looking party of Canadians as ever came into the Golden City … The men who came into the city last night were a lot of sturdy Canadians who value free speech and action above the fetich of agitation. They will be first-class

mine workers in a comparatively short period.” However, there were no further mentions of the Doukhobor workers after that. They probably departed once they understood the dispute they were in the middle of. A third early foray into BC by Doukhobors was reported by the Grand Forks Sun of April 12, 1904: “Messrs. Harry Itter, Geo. H. Hull, Lee and Lawson went down to Cascade last Sunday to take snap shots of the Doukhobor colony at that place.” (None of those photos are known to survive.) The report is so brief and casual that it seems to assume readers were familiar with the subject. Yet no other mention of Doukhobors in the area appeared in the Grand Forks Sun or Grand Forks Gazette that month. The word “colony” is probably a misnomer, as it was very doubtful to have been a permanent settlement and more likely an encampment of seasonal labourers. But if this report is accurate, what were they doing at Cascade? Working at one of the mines or sawmills in the area? At the Cascade Water Power & Light dam on the Kettle River? Or for the CPR as railway labourers? And were these the same Doukhobors that A.J. Flett went to see at Grand Forks three years earlier? Furthermore, was it just coincidence that in each case the men came to the region that would later be home to thousands of Doukhobors? Or did these early sojourns plant some small seed for that subsequent migration? Did any Doukhobors who came to BC prior to 1908 later return permanently? We’ll probably never know the answers with any certainty. Unfortunately, we don’t know the names of any of the individuals either; no Doukhobors have been discovered in BC on the 1901 census. — With thanks to Ron Verzuh, who found the story of Doukhobors hired to work in the Rossland mines

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Denied entry into U.S., Kootenay couple still forced to quarantine for 2 weeks BARRY COULTER Townsman Staff

The rules around crossing the U.S. border during the pandemic led to a bizarre situation for an Invermere couple earlier this month, leaving them angry and frustrated as they were forced to go into quarantine without having technically entered the U.S. — indeed, without having even left their vehicle. Grant and Barbara Howse were on their way to Baja, Mexico, where they have residency and property. There are rules in place to allow for this; in fact, Barbara’s son and daughter-inlaw crossed the border earlier — at the Roosville border crossing. “Originally, we were planning on flying,” Grant Howse said. “But every flight that we booked with WestJet was cancelled, or pushed to a different date. Finally, we decided to drive. “We got to the border, waited for the command to come in to the port of entry. We explained we were on our way to Mexico, and we were residents of the country. We’re Canadian citizens, but we also have resident status in the Baja. “But then we were told that we couldn’t go to Mexico unless we were Mexican citizens. “We were pulling our trailer, and we loaded up to cross the States, because [Barbara’s son and daughter-in-law, who also have Mexican residency] had gone through.” The son and daughter-in-law had been advised that they couldn’t stop except for essentials — gasoline, food — until they were over the southern border into Mexico, but otherwise they had been waved through. The Howses explained that they had all their provisions, sanitary gear and masks, and were aware and prepared to follow all safety protocols while crossing the U.S. But even after the U.S. border checked with his su-

Grant and Barbara Howse, in quarantine in Invermere. Photo: Mike Turner pervisor, the Howes’ were still denied “We said, ‘what do you mean, come entry, offered no further reasons, and back into Canada? We were just retold to turn around. But that’s when fused entry into the U.S. He said ‘it their troubles really started. doesn’t matter — you’re entering into “We were a little stunned,” Howse Canada from the U.S.’” said. The Howses tried to explain that The couple were told to drive ahead they had not been in the U.S. at all — a few metres to a turn-around spot that they had been denied entry, but and go back to Canada, and that the the border guard started listing the U.S. border guards would call their penalties they could face if they didn’t Canadian counterparts and tell them go into the 14-day quarantine, inthe Howses were coming, having been cluding jail time and enormous fines. refused entry. “We were treated like crap — like “We turned around and came back we were a couple of idiots. No comto the Canadian side, and the fellow passion at all. And he placed us waved us up to the wicket. And that’s under quarantine. And he told us where it all started.” we had to go directly to our address The Howses were told they were not [in Invermere], and that he would allowed to come back into Canada be contacting the RCMP, and they unless they went into quarantine for will at any time during the 14 days to make sure we were at the place of 14 days.

quarantine. “You are not allowed to leave your property, have anyone come to your residence … “The rules set down by this fellow — I was just appalled.” The Howses duly returned to Invermere on Oct. 8 and went into quarantine. Grant then called Member of Parliament Rob Morrison, looking for some help on the issue. “Rob has taken it a long way up the ladder in the political aspect of things — he’s really been a great help to us, in trying to get this resolved,” Grant said. The Howses subsquently got a call from a Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) superintendent. “He told us this order had come down, that anyone going into the U.S. and coming back into Canada

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were to go into a 14-day quarantine. Doesn’t matter if you were there for 15 minutes of 60 days. I told him that we had been denied entry. He said there was nothing he could do — it came down as an order from Service Canada. “I said, ‘just the same, we hadn’t left the country!’ So why were we place in quarantine?’ He said, ‘I’m sorry but that’s the rule.’” “I then told him about the actions of his employee, and how we were treated. He did say he would look into that.” Last week, the Howses got a call from Service BC, who confirmed that they would remain under quarantine until October 22. And again, their remonstrations that they had not even left the country — that they had simply driven a few metres to a turn-around spot so they could go back to the Canadian side — did not make any difference. “Those are the rules.” Grant was not allowed to speak with anyone higher up the ladder at Service BC. The Howses had planned on renewing their Mexican residency while there. In fact, the deadline to do so was October 23, at the Mexican consulate in Baja. But the Howse’s agent in Baja was able to get an extension period for them to do so. The Howse’s ultimate plan to get dual citizenship, Mexican and Canadian, for all the time they spend there. “We love the place, the country, the people,” Grant said. In the meantime, the Howses are stuck in quarantine, and are still furious. “This is BS,” Grant said. “It’s a bunch of politics that didn’t have to happen. This quarantine is okay in its place, but it doesn’t have to apply to everybody. Who sets these rules? “There has to be a more neutral area.”

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B.C.’s snap election means 700k ballots will be counted manually, delaying results Brunswick residents went to the polls last month. Paul Harpell, a spokesman for Elections New Brunswick, said about 13,000 residents among 547,000 registered voters had asked for mail-in ballots for the Sept. 14 election in the province where 100 people typically vote by mail. Harpell said tabulators processed the ballots the day before the election, and more ballots, including those brought in by voters by 8 p.m. on election day, were handled by the machines by 11 p.m. that evening, a couple of hours after the Progressive Conservatives were re-elected. But he described the situation as less

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British Columbia residents won’t learn the results of next Saturday’s snap election for at least two weeks after polls close thanks to the need to count hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots by hand. Officials with Elections BC said more than 700,000 votes have been cast by mail-in ballot, which must be tabulated manually due the timing of the Oct. 24 election. The results that would generally be available hours after the polls close, they added, will be postponed for weeks while the votes are counted. The setup may have been different had the election taken place a year from now as scheduled, but NDP Leader John Horgan announced the surprise campaign, citing the need for political stability during the COVID19 pandemic. Legislative changes recommended by the province’s chief electoral officer and passed in 2019 are expected to kick in next year, allowing a large number of ballots to be processed quickly and centrally by “tabulators,” which have been used in provincial referendums. Instead, Elections BC spokesman Andrew Watson said employees in 87 electoral districts will count mail-in ballots one by one. Current legislation means the counting can’t start until 13 days after the election, he added. “Those time periods could take longer, given the really unprecedented and historic volume of mail-in ballots,” Wat-

In this photo illustration, a provincial election mail-in ballot sealed in an Elections B.C. return envelope is seen before being deposited in a Canada Post mailbox, in Richmond, B.C., Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The final result of British Columbia’s provincial election won’t be known for at least two weeks because more than 700-thousand mail-in ballots have to be counted by hand. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck son said. at polling stations in absentee and mail-in Extra time is need- real time. Names will ballots. ed to ensure ballots no longer be crossed As for British Comailed to Elections off a paper list, and lumbia’s election on BC from anywhere the information will Saturday, Watson in the province can be immediately acces- said Elections BC be shipped for count- sible to Elections BC, will hire more staff to ing to district offices Watson said. count mail-in ballots where voters live, he “It would have been in districts where a said. in place for 2021, but high number of resiEach ballot must be not now,” he said. dents requested them. screened to ensure the “That will be a focus In Saskatchewan, person was registered for us after the elec- where election day is Oct. 26, nearly and eligible to vote tion.” and has not voted Watson said the sys- 63,000 vote-by mail more than once. Two tem being adopted in applications were more days will be B.C., is already avail- received as of last needed to count the able to some degree in Thursday, Elections ballots, Watson said. at least two provinc- Saskatchewan said He said the prov- es, including Ontario of the province with ince with 3.4 million and New Brunswick. 817,000 registered registered voters has “Ballots would be voters. The ballots will be received more than fed into the tabula700,000 requests for tors throughout the counted at the elecmail-in ballots as of day and then at the tion administrator’s early this weekend, end of the night it office in Regina rathcompared to rough- would just be a mat- er than the province’s ly 6,500 such requests ter of calculating the 61 returning districts, during the 2017 cam- results and reporting starting two days paign. them to the head of- after the election. Next year’s legisla- fice based on what But the final result of tive changes will also the tabulated report the vote will not be include a modernized reads,” he said, add- known until Nov. 7. network that would ing the same technolThere were no such record ballots cast ogy would be used for snags when New

than ideal, noting the ballots were processed in 49 returning districts with the help of harried staff handling an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots. “I still think we want to centralize it because we know that the returning districts weren’t built to handle that degree of mail,” Harpell said, adding that will be especially important if the pandemic-related push to cast ballots by mail will prompt more people to vote the same way in future elections. “I wish B.C. good luck because that’s a phenomenal amount of mail, 700,000 ballots. That’s insane.” Camille Bains, The Canadian Press

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Slocan Valley Schools community call for memories, submissions SUBMITTED BY SCHOOL DISTRICT 8 Black Press

Did you know that Mt. Sentinel once had an extra-curricular Calculus Club? Or that the current band room at W.E. Graham used to be the School District 8 board office? The 2020-2021 academic year marks the 70th anniversary of both of our current secondary schools in the Slocan Valley. Mt. Sentinel and W.E. Graham will be celebrating this milestone year and we are looking to the community for stories and tributes to commemorate education in the Slocan Valley since the 1950s! Are you a former or current student, parent, or teacher of one of our valley schools? Did you play team sports, act in a drama production or have a memory of a school competition? We’d love to hear from you! Please visit https://www.sd8.bc.ca/slocan-valley-school-memories to share an anecdote or special memory of our valley schools. We are looking for: • Photos (both historic and contemporary) • Stories of celebrated events • Multi-generational connections • Quotes Community submissions will be collected for consideration in a special commemorative publication to be released in 2021. If you wish to submit a photo, please email directly to Glen.Campbell@sd8.bc.ca.

Mount Sentinel Secondary students sit in a classroom in 1950. School District 8 wants your memories of going to school in the Slocan Valley. Photo: UBC Special Collections

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Nelson-based biologist Marlene Machmer wins conservation award The Kootenay Conservation Program (KCP) announced the recipients of its annual Conservation Leadership Awards on Oct. 2 as part of the 2020 KCP Virtual Fall Gathering that took place as an online conference. For the West Kootenay, the 2020 honours went to Nelson-based biologist Marlene Machmer with Pandion Ecological Research Ltd., who has been an outstanding leader in conservation in the Kootenays for decades. She is an exceptional field biologist who has passionately led many initiatives including a reptiles at risk project, a reptile sanctuary in Warfield, heron rookery and osprey reporting and conservation with private landowners, and Yellow-breasted chat conservation to name a few. Her conservation fingerprints are present throughout the Kootenays, including many management plans for parks and conservation properties; land remediation and conservation plans for highly impacted industrial lands; wildlife interpretations for

the new Kootenay-Boundary ecosystem field guide; local inventory and stewardship projects on several listed species (e.g., Great Blue Herons, Yellow-breasted chats, North American racers), and road kill mortality. Marlene represents local conservation issues on broader scales including as a member of the BC Forest Practices Board, the Elk Valley Cumulative Effects Management Framework, the Provincial Yellow-breasted chat Recovery Team, the Pacific Northwest Great Blue Heron Working Group, the BC Herptofauna and Road Ecology Working Group, and the Salmo Watershed Streamkeepers Society. One of her greatest contributions has been as a mentor to biologists in the Kootenays. As a female in the field of wildlife biology, she is also an inspiration to young women in a male-dominated field. Marlene has been an active member of KCP including co-hosting the Lower Columbia Conservation Action Forum, providing webinars, and Marlene Machmer is this year’s recipient of co-organizing Critter Day. She has the Kootenay Conservation Program’s annual developed collaborative partnerships leadership award. Photo: Submitted

with the Ktunaxa Nation, assisting them with technical expertise, as well as industry, stewardship groups, and other KCP partners. Her long-term Great Blue Heron monitoring and stewardship project has engaged private landowners, naturalist clubs, and others in identifying and protecting important heron rookeries. She volunteers countless hours of her time in order to improve the outcome of conservation projects all the while maintaining extremely high professional and ethical standards, making her a deserving recipient of the 2020 Conservation Leadership Award.

Each year, KCP recognizes one individual from the West Kootenay and one from the East who is a proven leader contributing to conservation in the Kootenays. The 2020 East Kootenay recipient was retired biologist Penny Ohanjanian. To learn more visit www.kootenayconservation/2020. The Kootenay Conservation Program is a broad partnership of over 80 organizations from across the Kootenays that works to conserve landscapes in order to sustain naturally functioning ecosystems. Visit www.kootenayconservation.ca.

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A10 Thursday, October 22, 2020

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