Bowen Island Undercurrent November 8 2018

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2018 VOL. 44, NO. 43

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REMEMBRANCE DAY ISSUE

On the centennial of the end of the First World War we remember those who have sacrificed in all conflicts in the hope of a better future

Welcoming Bowen’s new council BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

In likely the best-catered meeting of the coming term, Bowen’s new council was sworn in at Cates Hill Chapel last Thursday.

The inaugural council meeting featured no discussion of the official community plan or land use bylaws. Gary Ander became mayor of Bowen and the slate of councillors, Alison Morse, Michael Kaile, Maureen Nicholson, Sue Ellen Fast, David Hocking and Rob Wynen, took their oaths of office.

Former mayor Murray Skeels addressed the new council and audience. He said that he saw this election as a vote of confidence as everyone who ran for re-election is returning to his or her councillor chair.

“Your incoming council is strong and diverse,” he told the crowd.

“They will reach decisions by governing together.”

Ander then took the stage.

“You’ve done a stellar job of leading basically a rookie bunch,” he told Skeels. “Now I get a well-oiled machine.”

Acknowledging the close mayoral race (where his opponent, Melanie Mason got 49.9 per cent of the vote), Ander said he’d like to see Mason on committees and involved in the municipality in the coming four years.

Ander also pointed to some of the key campaign issues that he plans on addressing, including the upcoming capital projects, rental housing, staffing shortages and transportation.

“Bowen Island meet your new council,” he said. “I’m excited to get going.”

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas standing before his latest Haida Manga work, Carpe Fin. The six pannels of the piece were hung together for the first time last weekend at Terminal Creek Contemporary in Artisan Square. Photo: Len Gilday

See Carpe Fin before it leaves Bowen forever BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

Art lovers have one chance to see local artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s latest Haida Manga mural before it leaves for its permanent home at the Seattle Art Museum.

The 12 square metres of intricate graphic narrative took 17 months to create with a 108-page Haida Manga

book coming out November 2019.

The museum’s largest ever commission, the water colour and ink mural is on six panels of rare, Japanese, custom-made mulberry paper.

“Everything that’s gone into it has been really thought out,” says Yahgulanaas, who even met with the chemist about the paper’s pigmentation. “I’m quite obsessive about it.”

“It is the latest, most complex and thoughtful piece to date,” he says.

Carpe Fin is currently hanging in the Terminal Creek Contemporary exhibition space in Artisan Square as it awaits transportation to Seattle later this month. The work can be viewed until Nov. 25, by appointment only, though there will be a reception on Nov. 21 from 2 to 6 p.m.

Yahgulanaas, a prolific Haida artist and author, known for coining the Haida-Asian hybrid art form he calls Haida Manga, has had work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery and Seattle Art Museum.

His two previous Haida Manga murals include RED and War of the Blink.

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Event Calendar Nov 9 2018 9:30 am Housing Advisory Committee

Nov 13 2018 7:15 pm Regular Council Meeting

Nov 16 2018 9:30 am Economic Development Committee Meeting

Nov 17 2018 9:00 am - 1:00 pm CPR/AED Training

Nov 19 2018 7:00 pm Advisory Planning Commission Meeting All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

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Request for Volunteer Library Board members

Help build the Community Centre

The Bowen Island Municipality and Bowen Island Public Library are seeking applications from Bowen Island residents interested in joining the Bowen Island Public Library Board. We are seeking applications from members of the public with diverse skills and interests who are committed to the ideals of open and equitable access to information through public library service.

Key duties of the Library Board are: • Setting the strategic direction and goals of the library.

• Determining policy and rules for managing the provision of public library services and for regulating the use of the library facilities and programs by the public.

• Appointing and reviewing performance of the Chief Librarian.

• Preparing an annual operating budget to present to Council.

• Reviewing the annual operating budget and monitoring revenue and expenditures through the year.

The Board meets 10 times per year on the third Thursday of the month.

Interested individuals are asked to submit a one-page summary of their background, skills and expertise relative to the duties and responsibilities of the position.

Information about the role of Library Board members can be found at bowenlibrary.ca/about-us/library-information/board-members/ and further questions can be emailed to info@bowenlibrary.ca.

Interested applicants are asked to respond in writing, via email, fax or regular mail, with the requested information by Friday, November 16, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. to:

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Drinking Water and Persons who are Immunocompromised The Provincial Health Officer advises all British Columbians with compromised immune systems (such as HIV, organ or bone transplants, chemotherapy or medications that suppress the immune system) to avoid drinking water from any surface water or ground water that is under the influence of surface water, unless it has been boiled, filtered, distilled or treated with UV. Bowen Island and other areas in British Columbia use surface water sources (lakes, rivers, streams). This is not a general boil-water advisory for the general public, but rather is directed only at persons with compromised immune systems. If in doubt about your immune system status, please discuss this further with your physician.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

First Aid with Amanda Municipal Hall, 9am-1pm CPR/AED Training

Learn the skills needed to recognize and respond to cardiovascular emergencies and choking for adults, children, and babies.

Learn to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Come learn with your Emergency Program volunteers. No charge.

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Remembering First Nations veterans BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

Michael Yahgulanaas puts the final touches on Carpe Fin at Terminal Creek Contemporary Saturday.

Photo: Len Gilday

Haida Manga attracts young people Continued from page 1 “Haida Manga is taking things we believe to be familiar and twisting them around and making them accessible to us, to the people today,” he says.

Carpe Fin’s story is a reflection on Indigenous stories from up the West Coast including Alaska.

Yahgulanaas says that his interpretation questions the range of humans’ relationship with the marine environment.

“Are we just highly inefficient predators,” asks Yahgulanaas, “or have we just taken advantage of the amazing generosity of the ocean?”

He used a story, at least 400-500 years old, about the man who invented the toggle harpoon, basically a more efficient killing machine. People were shocked and the inventor was abandoned on a reef.

“Some say he was left there,” says Yahgulanaas, “some say he was accidentally forgotten.”

Yahgulanaas took that idea and shaped it into a new story.

Carpe Fin is set in a coastal fishing village where there’s an oil spill, poisoning the local food supply.

The ferry, which happens to be the Queen of Capilano, has mechanical issues and is incapacitated for a long

Print Making Anyone?

Halloween has passed and so have the grizzly costumes and pumpkins.

Now thoughts are directed toward Christmas and year’s end. For many, givers and receivers alike, person-

while. There’s not enough fuel in the village for boats to get far offshore for food meaning that the village cannot rely on the outside world.

The community must then grapple with how to feed itself.

“Carpe Fin is about resilient relationships,” says Yahgulanaas. “How do we as an individual community, or how does any individual, manage a life so dependent on the ocean?”

Yahgulanaas did the first sketches back in 2001, but the sheer scale required a partner, which he found in the art museum.

Yahgulanaas says that the Seattle Art Museum commissioned the work after showing his last mural work, RED, A Haida Manga a few years ago. The museum had been worried about attracting youth, but when Yahgulanaas’s work came to the museum, there was a sharp increase in young people crowding to see the graphic hybrid.

“We’ve noticed that elsewhere,” he says. “There’s a new appetite for a new approach to Indigeneity. We can only go so far if we are all looking at one another through a distorted lens “ “Haida Manga is so popular because it’s trying to open a way for people to see one another in a con-

temporary way.”

“I want to do stories that are accessible to everyone,” he says. He notes that he likes this form because not everyone can read a totem pole, wade through an academic work, or predict what a government policy will mean, but every human is graphically literate.

So the museum commissioned the six-metre-long comic strip.

Yahgulanaas says the work probably won’t travel because the curators are likely to say it’s too delicate (though he adds that he considers it quite resilient.)

Though not sure that he wants to commit another couple of years of his life for another mural anytime soon, Yahgulanaas is keeping busy.

As we were talking he was preparing for a trip to Korea to give a keynote speech on the intersection of ecology, art and identity, which is tied to his work protecting Haida Gwaii years ago. He’s contributing to the design of three new towers to go up in Vancouver and his best-selling book Flight of the Hummingbird is being made into an opera.

To see Carpe Fin, please call 604561-9895 or email info@tccontemporary.com.

al gifts rank highly and can create lasting treasures. Making your own greeting cards or other images is an affordable way to spread joy.

To show you the basics I’m offering a couple of beginners courses in print making on Friday and Saturday, November 16 and 17 and

Friday and Saturday, November 23 and 24 at Island Pacific School.

The courses are designed for practice at home.

For more detail contact HansChristian Behm at 604 916 1027 or hcbehm@shaw.ca - HC Behm

Lynda Gray, author of First Nations 101, spoke at Cove Commons over the weekend.

Her book is basically an introduction to First Nations issues in Canada, covering the Indian Act, Residential Schools, racism, taxation myths, media representation and more.

Given that this issue is dedicated to Remembrance Day and National Aboriginal Veterans Day is November 8, Gray’s coverage of the treatment of First Nations veterans is particularly relevant.

She writes that between 7,000 and 12,000 First Nations people (not including Metis, Inuit and non-status people) served in the First and Second World Wars as well as in the Korean War. “First Nations people endured

unique hardships during their service as they often faced racism and unequal treatment from their fellow servicemen,” she writes.

Many First Nations people who served had to give up their government-regulated status and if they survived war, they often couldn’t return to their communities.

“While all veterans were supposed to receive access to land, education, grants, loans and allowances for themselves and their children, many First Nations veterans were denied full benefits,” writes Gray.

She notes that awareness of the sacrifices of First Nations veterans is growing (the book was written in 2011) with films, articles, community and government recognition.

For those who are interested in more information, the Bowen Island library has a couple of copies of First Nations 101 and it’s available in book stores.

Tentrees bound for Bowen BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

Small town to smaller town, song writer, musician and storyteller Gordie Tentrees is coming to Bowen next week.

“I like to think that if you’re a folk music fan, jazz fan, country fan, blues fan, you’ll enjoy the show,” says Tentrees.

Based out of Whitehorse, Yukon, Tentrees is touring his latest album, “Grit,” released last March.

The last time the musician was here, six years and three records ago, he was nearing the end of a nearly 150-stop tour.

Tentree’s touring schedule has mellowed over the half decade.

This month he’s embarking on a mere 20-stop European tour. Before leaving the continent, Tentrees will be playing a few shows in the Lower Mainland in mid-November, including one at Tir-na-nOg on November 14.

“There’s a lot of new material for those who came to the last show,” he says. “It’s something they haven’t seen from me or anyone else.”

Though raised in a household with a folk music writer, it wasn’t until Tentrees moved to the Yukon

in his early 20s that he became interested in the music industry.

Tentrees says that in the theatre, arts and music-steeped atmosphere of the Yukon, especially in the pre-social media world of 20 years ago, he realized that he could play along to folk music with a guitar.

And so he started playing and singing and studying.

“I had to learn how to be a musician backwards,” says Tentrees.

Though he adds that in some ways, his late musical debut was an advantage.

“I learned to appreciate it more,” he says.

Two decades later, Tentrees tours the world with his music and he says that his show especially appeals to small town culture. His songs and music come from his experiences in such places.

“I can’t really make it up,” he says.

“It’s real.

“It’s stuff I’ve gone through and I think people can really relate to.”

Tentrees’ Bowen show is November 14 at 7 p.m. at Tir-nanOg theatre. Tickets can be purchased at Phoenix or at eventbrite. com/e/tir-na-nog-theater-gordietentrees-tickets-51923072307#tickets.

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Keep the heat, get an energy audit MERIBETH DEEN BOWEN IN TRANSITION

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The fact that so many Islanders enjoy the warmth of a furnace or wood stove through the cold and wet months doesn’t seem to save us from the shocking hydro bills that come simultaneously. For the past two winters, though, members of Bowen in Transition have been trying to help Islanders lower their costs while being more comfortable in their homes.

Three years ago, the municipality purchased a thermal imaging camera through the carbon tax rebates offered through the province’s Community Revenue Incentive Program. Bowen in Transition kicked in two smaller infrared cameras that attach to smart phones and all three were donated to the library for residents to borrow. Since their acquisition, a team from Bowen In Transition has visited 46 local homes to take images showing the temperatures of interior walls, floors, ceilings, doors and windows, with the aim of finding ways to conserve interior heat and subsequently lower the amount of energy required to keep the home warm.

The work is more than finding gaps in insulation or drafty windows; it’s about understanding how and where heat moves.

A Bowen In Transition energy audit in my home revealed the reason why the bedroom in the south side of our house was sprouting mushrooms: the radiant heat of the wood stove was sucking air in from those far rooms, making them extra cold. That particular room only gets used on weekends and when we have guests, so we don’t heat it much. It is likely that the low temperatures mixed with high humidity created the perfect conditions for mildew, mould and fungus to flourish.

We followed the team’s advice and got a dehumidifier. Now, the machine sucks moisture out of the air and warms the room at the same time. Next step for us is getting more blinds and drapes to stop the windows (which are actually pretty well sealed) from sucking radiant heat from our bodies and the fire.

If you’ve already had an energy audit done, or want to try doing one yourself, you might want to borrow one of the library’s thermal imaging cameras and check out the impact of your home improvements. On Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m., Rod Marsh will be at the Library Annex demonstrating how to use them.

If you want to book an energy audit, send an email to: bowenenergyaudits@gmail.com.

The Bowen In Transition Energy Audit Team will spend an hour working with the thermal imaging camera in your home, offering you creative solutions and answering questions.

Welcome back, Slow Lane Dear Editor: Marcus Hondro’s Slow Lane Chronicles was a delightfully entertaining reminder that we are indeed “a giant fleshy, effusive aggregate” (and Marcus, no apologies necessary for the superb use of brackets.)

Hopefully this is just the beginning of a classic revival!

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Last chance to see Bowen dress codes exhibit INES ORTNER B.I. MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES

Our summer exhibit in the museum has been dismantled for some time, but we are grateful and would like to thank the following Bowen Islanders for their contributions: Elaina Waldman, Helen Wallwork and Sarah Haxby, Judi Gedye, Deborah and David Dagoli, Angie McCulloch, Kami Kanetsuka, Sam Knowles, Norma Dallas, Maggie Davidson, Bert Davies, and everyone who left wonderful comments about their impression of Bowen Island’s style.

A few such impressions included: elegant and simple (Raya), nice, simple and pretty (Naomi), laid back and relaxed, colorful and one-of-a-kind.

The fall exhibition, “Fashionably Bowen: Island Dress Codes?” Is in full swing and we had Samantha Adkins with her classes from BICS in the museum for uniform day show and tell with Cpl. Paulo Arreaga. He spoke about his work uniform and their elements, the way he is supposed to wear them and why.

He also spoke to the excited students about

how he earned every part of his uniform, step by step during his training. However, the children’s favourite part was surely when they were allowed to wear some of his jackets, the life vest, the red serge and even his gasmask.

We thank Cpl. Arreaga for his engaging presentation.

New this fall, we’re offering curator’s tour of the exhibit. The tour will focus on the history and anecdotes of dress codes on Bowen; in the Legion and the Ladies Auxiliary, the Scouts and Brownies, the school, the firefighters and we look at garment pieces that challenged the established norms. The tour is on Friday, November 9, from 3 to 4 p.m. This will include enough time for questions and to explore the exhibit on your own.

On Remembrance Day our exhibit will be open right after the ceremony until 3 p.m.

The exhibit is on until Wednesday November 14.

Our Winter opening hours for the museum are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday 12 to 4 p.m. Please call 604-9472655.

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My Grandfather’s Song Setting aside pacifism in WWII that would never come.

He did not attend any ceremonies nor speak of the friends he lost. No words for the scars. He carried on like nothing was wrong except for those far away eyes that sometimes swelled when he thought no one was looking.

Somewhere in a field there is a boy my grandfather never left.

The one thing he allowed us to carry with him.

And we did and still do and see the boy everywhere and offer small fragments of songs found in the rain.

Lisa Shatzky

Looking at the future

As Canadian millennial, born to relative peace at home, I have a hard time discerning the lines between glorifying war, reinforcing colonial relationships and remembering those who, willing or not, went to war.

For my undergraduate degree, I studied at a war monument. After the First World War, the then dominion of Newfoundland was reeling from profound losses. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment had been nearly wiped out in 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in the advance on Beaumont Hamel, a battle that Newfoundlanders still commemorate with sobriety.

As a monument, in commemoration of those who lost their lives, Newfoundland established Memorial University College in 1925. Today it’s known as Memorial University of Newfoundland, one of

the largest universities in Atlantic Canada.

I think we have struggles ahead that our parents, grandparents, great grandparents couldn’t have imagined. When it comes to climate change, the action needed to halt warming at 1.5 degrees has been compared to global mobilization on the scale of the U.S. during the Second World War. The consequences of climate change include resource scarcity and war.

The not-so-simple answer seems to be a form of unity. Education, institutional, traditional, communal or individual, can be a tool towards this unity. We don’t need to agree on everything, just that we want what’s best for the planet.

Let’s make sure that there will still be people around to wear poppies in a hundred years time.

Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

I was born in the decade following the war—a baby boomer. No one talked about the war in our house, yet it affected my family daily.

My father, Stanley Cameron, joined the army when he was 22.

He hadn’t wanted to because he felt himself to be a pacifist, a difficult stance when his future father in-law was a lieutenant-colonel. But as news began to reach beyond Europe about the atrocities and suffering, he felt he had to put his pacifism aside. In quick succession he enlisted, married and was shipped overseas in 1942. He returned home to Edmonton in 1944, having been shot with a bullet that entered his throat and came out his back.

By the time he returned, my older brother was two. My mother told the story of taking him to the hospital so father and son could meet for the first time. After the visit, my brother asked when they were going to see his dad. Families around the world faced similar difficulties reuniting after the war.

My father never spoke of the war and he never complained, but it had a profound effect on his life. He had been the captain of the University of Alberta basketball team and now he had a crippled hand and nerve damage in one leg. His hand and arm gave him pain for the rest of his life.

As well, he couldn’t tolerate loud noises or even not-so-loud noises.

We were four children, raised in a house of unusual quietness. If our telephone rang, we never hollered up the stairs after whomever the call was for; we always walked up to tap on their door.

I was in my 40s when I learned that the unnerving calm with which my father expressed himself at times when others would be shouting was not due to magnificent self-control but to the fact that his vocal cords

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were damaged. Raising his voice was an impossibility. In an odd way, it was a relief to know that in my wild teens I really had managed to infuriate him after all.

I don’t think I truly understood the impact the war had had on my father until he was visiting me, my husband and our children one Remembrance Day. We were watching a ceremony on television when he burst into tears, jumped up and left the room. He apologized afterward. He explained he had suddenly been struck by the memory of a friend who had been shot and killed the day after the cease fire because the message hadn’t reached where he was fighting. Remembering the senseless loss overwhelmed him.

If my father were alive today, I know my writing about him would make him uncomfortable. But nonetheless, I think it’s important we remember the lasting trauma war inflicts on those who are sent to the battlefields, even if they themselves hold their suffering close and endeavour not to share it.

Remembering can help us take action against racism and other forms of exclusion and privilege. It can help us construct a collective moral compass founded on compassion and tolerance. Remembering the consequences of war can guide us toward creating a world in which no one feels compelled to abandon their pacifism.

Elaine Cameron (daughter)

On December 25, & January 1 service will begin with the 8:35 am sailing from Bowen Island and the 8:00 am sailing from Horseshoe Bay.

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Stanley Cameron sitting with his then three-year-old son Peter Cameron in 1945. Photo: submitted

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Eyes as blue as the shores of Normandy he told us only one story of a field near Ohmaha beach when the moon was bright and a quiet stillness hovered like a rare songbird about to vanish forever.

There was a boy no more than ten with his head spilling into the earth.

A beautiful boy, eyes still open and lips in the shape of a kiss.

He spoke of sitting beside the boy through the night, taking his hand under a perfect sky bleeding stars and dust and perpetuity and waiting, waiting for something

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In remembrance of all who value peace and democracy - past, present and future, thank you from the Bowen Children’s Centre.

RCAF pilot Bob Pratt, centre, stands with his engineer who was killed during the war (left) and rear gunner (right). Photo: submitted

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commander WW11 and recipient of the DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS for valour and courage at the age of 22.

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RCAF pilot Bruce Mitchell while stationed in Britain during the Second World War. Photo: submitted

Bruce Mitchell My dad, flight-lieutenant Bruce Mitchell enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and learned to fly in 1941, when he was just 18. After basic training he was stationed in Northern England and flew U-Boat patrols over the North Sea. During one mission, the engines on his Anson aircraft failed and his only option was to land belly-first on the open water. He managed to bring the plane down safely, giving the crew time to escape in a dinghy from which they were later recovered.

He suffered facial lacerations during the rough landing and was sent to Royal Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, where he and others –including airmen suffering terrible burns from cockpit fires –were treated with the new art of plastic surgery. The hospital became renowned for pioneering this reconstructive work and its wartime patients (including my father) became lifetime members of the “Guinea Pig Club.”

My dad died in 1976, ten years before my own son was born. But a couple of years ago I was surprised to see a photo of my dad in his wartime flight gear tucked into my son’s wallet and I realized that he felt a special connection to this grandfather he had never met.

Steve Mitchell (son)

People commemorated on the Bowen Island Cenotaph include: Charles D. Redmond (d. 1915), Cameron L. Smith (d. 1917), Miles B. Green (d. 1916), Lewan Tugwell (d. 1915) and Norman Vickery.

Robert (Bob) Alexander Pratt Born in Toronto in 1921, as a young boy Bob Pratt’s family moved West. His father worked for the railway and so Robert, his two older sisters, mother and father when he was home, spent a few years living on Bowen Island.

At 19 Bob volunteered to serve in the Second World War. Part of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Robert became a pilot out of Halifax, coincidentally flying with the 424 Halifax squadron.

Over the course of the war, Bob flew 49 missions, when the average was a good 20 fewer than that.

At 22 Bob received the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Germans had hit his Halifax with a direct blast as the plane was returning to England after bombing Berlin. The plane’s engineer died immediately and the plane was severely damaged. Bob could have chosen to fly to Sweden, but said later that he wanted to return the engineer to England

and he (Bob) was getting married that weekend, so they headed for Britain.

The injured plane and crew (Bob had sustained a head injury) just made it over the white cliffs of Dover to safety.

Over the course of the war Bob won five other medals for valor and flying.

In the last few weeks of the war Bob was a wing commander, an instructor for new pilots arriving.

Like many veterans, Bob didn’t like to talk the war but participated in many Royal Canadian Legion events.

Bob lived out most of his adult life in Ontario, at one point working for Volkswagen, an ironic turn of events as he’d bombed the Wolfsburg Volkswagen plant during the war.

He was featured in the Knowledge Network series Warriors of the Night.

Bob died in 1998 from cancer.

As told by Bob Pratt (son)

Cameron Smith

Cameron Smith in 1915. Photo: Bowen Isand Museum and Archives

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Cameron Linklater Smith was the only son of Herbert and Margaret Smith. These early pioneers settled on Bowen at the end of the 19th century.

Cameron was an outstanding marathon runner and his awards were many.

Cameron is commemorated on the Bowen Island Cenotaph. He enlisted on March 19, 1915 and was killed on April 9, 1917 at Vimy Ridge. During the war Cameron participated in foot races held between various active divisions.

In an effort to honour, remember and recognize Smith, his niece and grand-nephew nominated him as an inductee in the pioneer category of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Their nomination attempts were unsuccessful.

Ines Ortner (Bowen Island Museum and Archives)

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Grow a new age Victory Garden ELAINE CAMERON BOWEN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

At my first Bowen Remembrance Day commemoration, I was amazed by the crowd filling the street, spilling over onto the sidewalks and grass. It was clear from the speeches that Bowen residents were taking the time not to glorify the wars but to recognize the consequences of wars and the sacrifices they demand.

The First and Second World Wars forced changes and sacrifices at home as well as abroad. As the economies of all combatant nations focused on the war effort, every household felt the impact. One of these impacts was on food. Food needed to be shipped to soldiers and, in the Second World War, to allied countries. Slogans such as, “Serve apples daily and you serve your country too,” urged Canadians to focus their diet on “patriotic” foods not needed for shipping overseas.

Because vast quantities of food needed to be exported, some foods were not as available at home. Across the country, Canadians gardened to add to their home supply and support the war effort. In the First World War, under the Ministry of Agriculture’s campaign, “A Vegetable Garden for Every Home,” residents of cities, towns and villages used backyards to grow vegetables in what became known as “Victory Gardens.”

During the Second World War, many Canadians saw the value of a home garden, but the Federal Ministry of Agriculture did not. A 1942 government pamphlet actively discouraged novice gardeners from wasting seeds and “garden tools, fertilizers and sprays, which are made from materials needed by Canada’s war industries.”

But Canadians were experiencing shortages of basic foods like potatoes, carrots and onions.

Many citizens ignored the government and turned their yards into gardens. Organizations like the Victory Gardens Brigade in Victoria

wrote letters to the federal government pointing out the value of home food production. Finally, in early 1943, the government realized there would be more food available to ship overseas if Canadians were eating from their gardens.

In an about-face, the government said, “every bit of land that is suitable should be put into a garden.” Canadians who hadn’t done so already began to turn soil and plant seeds with enthusiasm. Everywhere backyards became gardens, many with chickens. By the end of 1943, the Greater Vancouver area had an estimated 52,000 gardens. Bowen, population about 200, with orchards, and small vegetable, dairy and poultry farming, was no exception.

During the World Wars, Canadians, with and without government support, rose to the demands of critical food shortages and the need to ship food overseas. There were Victory Garden competitions and newspapers ran articles and columns on gardening, preserving food, and creative recipes that adapted to what foods were and weren’t available.

Today, even though our store shelves are loaded with a never-before-seen diversity of food, many people want the benefits of eating food grown locally without chemicals or the need for long-distance transportation. Home vegetable patches are experiencing a revival.

Many people are gardening for the first time, learning new skills, enjoying the taste of food from just a few steps away and appreciating the added self-reliance offered by growing some of their own vegetables and herbs. This harks back to the war efforts: “For many proponents of Victory Gardening, the movement of amateurs into the field of gardening was one of the campaign’s benefits: it was teaching Canadians a new set of domestic skills which, in the process, increased their self-sufficiency.”

Our future food crises are likely to be caused by climate change rather than war. But it’s reassuring to know that Canadians are up to the challenges.

Bowen Island Remembrance Day events November 10

7 p.m. Village of Widows screening and discussion at Belterra Common House.

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NEVER FORGET, ALWAYS REMEMBER

November 11

Around 10:50 a.m. (as soon as the ferry leaves) the Remembrance Day ceremony starts at the Cenotaph. The community choir, led by Lynn Ellis-Williams, will sing.

Participants will lay at least 35 wreaths.

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Soup and sandwiches at the Legion. Everyone welcome. By donation.

1 to 3 p.m. “Songs for Peace and Community: looking back with grief and gratitude, looking ahead with hope and love” at Bowen Court.

Presented by SongCircle, drop-in, by donation.

Around 4 p.m. (sundown), bells will toll 100 times to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The United Church, Catholic Church, Cates Hill Chapel and the cenotaph will all have bell ringing.

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Lest we forget

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While Bowen Veterinary Services is temporarily closed, Mountainside Animal Hospital is available to take care of all your pets needs including 24/7 emergency and critical care services, routine appointments, vaccinations and surgeries etc. Located only 10 minutes from Horseshoe Bay just off Hwy. 1 at the Capilano Road exit.

Mountainside Animal Hospital & 24 Hour Emergency Services 2580 Capilano Rd. (exit 14), North Vancouver, B.C. (604) 973-1247 www.mountainside24er.ca info@mountainside24er.ca Transport Options: Cormorant Marine Water Taxi- (604) 250-2630 North Shore Taxi (pet-friendly)- (604)922-2222 We will continue to check messages and emails daily at Bowen Vet.

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On November 11, at sundown, communities across Canada will mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War with the ringing of 100 bells. The ringing of bells emulates the moment in 1918 when church bells across Europe tolled as four years of war came to an end.

At sunset on November 11, the bells will ring at Parliament Hill, city halls, places of worship, military bases and naval vessels across the country to honour Canada’s veterans and commemorate the end of the First World War. On Bowen at dusk (which looks to be around 4:30 p.m.), there will be ringers from Bowen Island Fire Department, The B.C. Ambulance Service and the Legion at the Cenotaph in the cove. Ringers will also be at the Bowen Island United Church, Cate’s Hill Chapel and St. Gerard’s Mission. All members of the public are encouraged to attend this moving ceremony. When you hear the bells toll on November 11 take a moment, pause, remember all those who served and sacrificed.

School children remember SARAH HAXBY

C O M M U N I T Y S C H O O L C O O R D I N AT O R

Bowen Island Community School is asking students to reflect on the question: how do we remember?

All students will attend a respectful, whole-school assembly on Friday, November 9 in the BICS gym as well as participating in activities inside and outside of the classroom in the week leading up to Remembrance Day. BICS student council members are volunteering to hand sew poppies for all the assembly’s special guests as well as hand-making the BICS wreath, which will be at the school assembly as well as being placed at the cenotaph at the community service on November 11.

As an act of respect and community service, BICS intermediate students will be learning about the history of the names on the Snug Cove cenotaph and as part of a beautification and remembrance project, they are planting daffodil bulbs in the Bowen Island Memorial Garden as well as cleaning plaques in the Memorial Garden and picking up any litter so that it will be clean and welcoming for people visiting the garden before and after the Remembrance Day service.

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Top left: Bowen FC’s fall adult co-ed league championship team last weekend. The league will start up again in the fall. Left to right: Finn Corrigan-Frost, Frazer Elliott, Teun Schut, James Woods, Morgan Quarry, Connor McLeod, Gabe Sentlinger, Mia Sentlinger and Jed Rees. Missing are Tim Yu and Chris Wilson. Photo: submitted Above: Volunteers setting up for the Little Red Church’s fall supper Sunday. Left to Right: Santosha Naismith, Lynn Williams, Makena Coker and Sheila McCall. Photo: Marcus Hondro Below: Two out of three of the island’s outstanding Welsh brothers (Charlie and Benny Boy) were at the fall supper at the Bowen Island Lodge Sunday to help their mom, Mary Ann, pack up. Photo and caption: Marcus Hondro

Bottom left: Cpl. Paulo Arreaga letting some BICS students try on his gear during a presentation at the Bowen Island Museum’s dress codes exhibit. Photo: Ines Ortner

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Thursday November 8

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 pm Info call Irene 604-947-2955

Friday November 9

“Tone & Texture” New works by Janet Esseiva Catching Stars Gallery 11 am - 5 pm Exhibit runs until

November 19th. Submit an entry form at the gallery before Nov 15th to win a free mini workshop with Janet -Saturday Nov. 17th.

Snug Cove Blues Band Bowen Island Pub 7-10 p.m.

Enjoy a bluesy evening and the pub’s dinner special.

Dinner at the Legion Bowen Island Legion Dinner served at 6:30 pm “Members and guests”

Free Art Demo, Janet Esseiva Catching Stars, 1-2 pm

Saturday November 10

Bowen Island Trail Society Social Municipality Council Chambers 10:30 - 12:30 pm Guest speaker, Ken Orr, VP of Mountain Clubs of B.C. Come share your ideas on growing BITS Eagle Cliff Community

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Call 1-800-661-8683

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You can answer both questions or just one and your ballot will still count. Find out more about all four voting systems by calling us or visiting our website.

See Remembrance Day schedule on page 7.

Monday November 12

Seniors Keeping Young 1070 Miller Road Exercise at 9 am, coffee at 9:45, Guest speaker, Pat Boston, speaking on WW II at 10, Yoga at 11:15. Annual membership $20 or drop in $3.

Tuesday November 13

Art Workshop 1070 Miller Road(Seniors Court) 9 - noon. Informal painting-drawing group meets every Tuesday. All stages and ages welcome.

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Wednesday November 14 Reduce your Energy Costs Library Annex 7 p.m. Presented by Bowen In Transition

WorkBC Career Advisor Library Flex Room 2-5 pm.

Free drop-in sessions with a WorkBC career advisor.

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Annual General Meeting Saturday, November 24th 10:30am at Bowen Court All very welcome

Lunch Bowen Island Legion 11:30 1:00 pm “For the great price of $5 a bowl of soup, artisan bread, dessert and coffee or tea. Today’s choices are Hearty Bean & Vegetable (v) or Cheesy Bacon & Potato. “ Regular council meeting BIM 7:15 p.m.

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