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he Chu Niikwän Artist Residency is a partnership between the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre (KDCC), the Yukon Arts Centre and the Yukon Art Society. Now in its third year, the residency provides three visual artists with studio space in Whitehorse for three weeks at the end of summer. This year’s residency culminates in an exhibit, Meeting the Currents, which opens at the KDCC on Nov. 7.

The residency also includes curatorial support for the artists. This year’s curators include Nicole Bauberger of Whitehorse and Lori Beavis, who lives in Montréal. The curators selected all three participating artists, Asad Chishti, Robyn McLeod and Aimée Dawn Robinson.

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Rather than travelling to Whitehorse, McLeod created her work in Ross River, and Beavis tuned in remotely from Montréal. Instead of gathering in person in their studios, participants connected via Zoom. Aimée Dawn Robinson’s Seven is the first in a series of stories featuring the Chu Niikwän artists and their work.

For the three-week residency, Dawn Robinson travelled from her cabin in the woods to her temporary studio space in the Old Fire Hall, provided by the Yukon Arts Centre. She found the transition from her hermit-like existence to a more social, urban environment to be the reversal of most residency situations, where artists seek solitude and go into retreat.

Dawn Robinson is primarily a dancer, but is also a visual artist. She incorporated both these disciplines into her residency piece, entitled Seven.

The title is in reference to a shooting which occurred on August 23, 2020, the day before the residency officially began. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Rusten Sheskey shot at 29-year-

old Jacob Blake seven times.

Blake, who is African American, was hit four times.

In September, Dawn Robinson performed a variation of the piece at Wondercrawl. She wrapped seven trees and stumps with bright red fabric, then danced with them to “There is a Balm in Gilead,” an African American spiritual song. She found the Wondercrawl experience “a really cool part of the residency.”

“The audience was really respectful,” Dawn Robinson says.

“It had this really great calm, quiet feeling to it.”

For the main piece that comprises Seven, Robinson combines dance with a very long garment she created from fabric donated

by Yukoners in response to a call on ArtsNet. She embellished the piece with seven fabric rosettes.

The effort it took to sew the garment, and the integration of decorative elements such as the rosettes, stem from Robinson’s northern Hungarian ancestry. For Robinson, her creative effort, combined with the beauty of the cont’d on page 3 ...

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Seven ... cont’d

Yukon Arts Centre’s Visual Arts Director Mary Bradshaw gives a school tour of the Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds exhibit in the main gallery on October 7.

The exhibit runs until November 27. Mike Thomas/Yukon Arts Centre. See page 5.

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What’s Inside Chu Niikwän Artist Residency .....2 Dog Culture.............................4 Shuvinai Ashoona .....................5 Eye on the Outdoors .................8 Berrywine ............................ 10 My Mother’s Kitchen ............... 13 Backyard Geologist ................. 15 Green Pause With CPAWS .......... 18 Family Gardens ...................... 23 Art Matters ........................... 26

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A detail of the garment created for Aimée Dawn Robinson’s Seven

piece, are necessary for its solemn purpose. It will be worn by the artist and six other performers during a healing procession along the Yukon River.

“It needs to be beautiful, it needs to be somewhat formal

and it needs to have a lot of effort put into it,” Robinson says.

The procession will start from the Old Fire Hall and end at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre on the day the exhibit opens. Afterwards, the garment will be in-

stalled as a sculptural work in the show.

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From the Arts with Nicole Bauberger

Take the tentacle A show that must be seen in person

Photos: Mike Thomas, YAC

Shuvinai Ashoona’s exhibit at the Yukon Arts Centre offers to take you to imagined worlds you never knew existed. The Yukon Arts Centre Gallery is now open for drop-in visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday

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n this time, when we cannot easily travel, Shuvinai Ashoona’s exhibit at the Yukon Arts Centre offers to take you to imagined worlds you never knew existed. The Yukon Arts Centre Gallery is now open for drop-in visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. You can fill out a simple contact tracing form either online, before you get there, or on a tablet on the way in. When I visited on a Friday, I was the only one in the gallery for most of the time I was there.

It’s more than worth the trip up the hill, because it’s a trip that will take you far beyond the YAC. Ashoona works in the Kinngait Studios, part of the Western Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, which recently celebrated 60 years of operations. Kinngait was formerly known as Cape Dorset, a mountainous island just off the south eastern coast of Baffin Island, on the way into Hudson Bay. Co-operatives in the Eastern Arctic have played important roles in the eco-

nomic lives of Inuit people. Artists can work there and access printmaking tools and materials.

The co-operative brings in food and gasoline at better prices. It also sells the artists’ work. The drawings at YAC were created by Ashoona as she listened to older women artists working and talking all around her (as a sidenote, you can see an exhibition drawn from the life work of one of these elder artists, Kenojuak Ahsevak, at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City until Dec. 10).

You seldom see a drawing done in coloured pencils and Pilot fineliner on a surface measuring five feet. Rendered at this scale, individual pencil strokes are visible, building up large areas of colour. It’s clear how much time is committed to each work, many of which are untitled. There’s a vulnerability and intimacy that brings you closer to the pieces. I often found myself taking off my glasses so my middle-aged eyes could make out the details that

drew me in.

In Ashoona’s Sinking Titanic, the enormous side of the ship steepens, covered with almost abstract circles and rectangles, a geometric pattern that expresses the power of the boat’s enormity.

People fall off the side, arms spread, some in tucked position.

Most of them miss the lifeboats.

At about eye level, the band plays on—a tiny band, making reference to the one that famously played as the Titanic sank. Unlike in 1912 though, this band includes guitars plugged into enormous amps, as well as a fiddle player. And if you peek at the bottom right hand corner, you see two people calmly untying their boats. They wear brimmed caps. They remind me of boat pilots I have seen in Moosenee or Tuktoyaktuk. I imagine them as Inuk. The capsizing of the Titanic doesn’t matter to them. They have skills and tools and they can handle it. cont’d on page 6 ...

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Take the tentacle ... continued from page 5 Many of the other works include tentacled monsters, with more than eight tentacles above and human or furry legs below.

They also play with scale. Smaller monsters gambol at the feet of large ones. People with yellow hair take their pictures while a furry foot steps on their heads.

Spoons turn into fish, knives and forks into axes and rifles. Fish and animals encircle globes of green earth and blue water.

These globes crowd the streets of Kinngait in a drawing that turns a detailed gaze on the buildings from above. This is more than a map. It’s a bewildering multiplicity of worlds. But even the person screaming between the monsters seems calm.

Images of women in childbirth, birthing worlds, or monsters, or humans with large genitals delineate intimate relationships in this space of many worlds. Hands grasp each other, or tentacles.

Ashoona’s understated and utterly committed use of coloured pencils expresses tactile tales.

Ashoona’s work has been increasingly celebrated in international contemporary art circles, featured at large exhibitions in the United States. I remember seeing her drawings in the Oh Canada show at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I remember encountering it among the soapstone carvings in the Musée des Beaux Arts in Montreal. It always reassures me that I don’t completely understand what’s going on.

This exhibition was curated and is being toured by the Power Plant

Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Because we have the Yukon Arts Centre with its high-quality exhibiting facilities, ours is the only gallery north of 60 where this touring exhibition can be seen.

Her works exist in their own right. I have tried here, but do not trust my translations. Go see them.

Shuvinai Ashoona’s exhibit at the Yukon Arts Centre offers to take you to imagined worlds you never knew existed.

The Yukon Arts Centre Gallery is now open for drop-in visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday

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Until Fri Nov 27 Mapping Worlds

by Shuvinai Ashoona Yukon Arts Centre A selection of pencil crayon and ink drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades. Whitehorse

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Until Nov 28 Duende by Women à la carte Arts Underground A group show illustrating the spirit of evocation, featuring the artwork of Edwige Graham, Glenda Mosher, Kathy Piwowar and Gabriele Watts Whitehorse Until Feb 27 Friends of the Yukon Archives Society Creating Community: A Look at Visual Arts in the Territory Arts Underground The collections at Yukon Archives, help tell that story by documenting and preserving the collections of the individuals and organizations that created this vital part of Yukon life.

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Sat Nov 7 Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:00 AM A&W Restaurant Casual event. Hams from outside the Yukon and those are interested are welcome Sun Nov 8 Daring Greatly™ Sunday In-Person Workshop 9:30 AM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Explore topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. Email maureen@raventree.ca to register Sun Nov 8 Larrikin Entertainment AGM Meeting to be held in person or on zoom. Email larrikinentertainment@gmail.com for more info or the zoom link to the meeting. 335 2288 Tue Nov 10 Running a Business in a Pandemic: Tax and Cash Management Considerations Workshop 7:30 AM Northlight Innovation Discuss the tax and accounting consequences of funds received under these programs.

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What we can learn from the passing of the passenger pigeon

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learned anything from this tragic chapter in human history.

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t would be hard for people today to visualize the vast passenger pigeon population of the 1700s and 1800s if the bird’s numbers remained today. If it wasn’t for the market netters (those who caught the birds in nets and then sold them) of the 1800s totally eliminating the passenger pigeon, the habitat destruction that had

occurred by 2000 would have done it. Timber harvest, agriculture practice and expanding communities of human population would have taken their toll.

The market netter of those days could take a thousand pigeons in a single setting with little effort. Records from the New York netters showed that professional netters could take up to 3,000 pigeons in a single go. One shipment from a Missouri wholesale netter required 15 tons of ice in order to preserve all the squab (young birds) during transportation to market.

Records show that one professional netter from Michigan not only captured more than 3,500 adult birds, but cut down nesting trees for easy access to the 50 or more nests that held their young squab. In 1878, the last of the passenger pigeons was netted in Michigan State. During those last few weeks, more than a billion pigeons were netted and shipped to market by the netters.

The pigeon of this story’s opening paragraph died in captiv-

ity at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens.

The netters were one major contributing factor to the demise of the pigeon. Another was the habitat destruction that accompanied virgin forests being cut down. This drastic change spelled the ultimate doom for the bird.

Wildlife specialists know that it is not just drastic change that nature deals the cards on, but an endless gradual change that must be faced by game and non-game species alike. The habitat changes by the day, by the month and even by the second.

The real question is whether human’s destructive quest for land will intimately destroy the wildlife habitat, as I personally feel it inevitably will. And if so, will we, with our unprecedented pressure on the changing environment, eventually destroy ourselves?

Murray Martin is a former Ontario conservation officer and a longstanding member of the Outdoor Writers of Canada.

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Harold Roche, Stephen Mooney, Colin Nickerson, Kyle Marchuk

Yukon haskap berries are now being turned into wine

by Michele Eshpeter

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ou may have heard, we have a winery in the Yukon now.

This winery comes from the team at Yukon Berry Farms. They were looking for a way to use their haskap berries to create secondary products that have a long shelf life and good margins - fruit wine.

This is a clever use of the ber-

The finished product, bottled and ready for sale

ries to create a valuable secondary product, especially when targeting export into Japan.

The word ‘haskap’ is the Japanese word for Edible Blue Honeysuckle and in Japanese, it means ‘berry of long life and good vision.’ These berries are perceived very positively in Japanese culture and there is an eagerness in that market to enjoy these berries in a variety of ways as part of personal well-being. The owners of Yukon Berry Farms believe that these berries and the secondary products could become one of the Yukon’s most viable agricultural exports.

The fun is obvious; producing wine, spirits, cider, or beer are all interesting and fun industries to be part of. The winery is called Yukon Wines and their products are currently available, when they are not sold out, through Yukon Liquor Corporation.

Now, seriously, let’s get into the juice. Yukon Wines is producing three different varieties of fruit wine; Dry Haskap, Semi-sweet Has-

kap, and Semi-sweet Apple. When I completed the tasting on these wines, I did the haskap wines separately from the apple wine. Let’s talk haskap first.

Since these are fruit wines, I approached them as fruit wines.

To me, this means bringing a playful curiosity to the experience instead of an expectation of what it ‘should’ taste like. First of all, I was delighted by the viscosity of the wine. Many fruit wines are very viscous, meaning they feel thick when drinking them. They can leave a sticky feeling in the mouth and lack a refreshing characteristic. Both the dry and semi-dry haskap wines flowed similarly to a glass of full-bodied red wine. Both wines have a nice balance of subtle tannin, juicy acidity, and sweetness to make these wines extremely food-friendly.

I brought these wines to the table with curry, salads with fruit, sweet & salty sandwiches, mushroom bolognese on pasta, and a Mexican burrito bowl. Honestly,

PHOTOS: Erik Pinkerton I chose a number of very difficult food-pairings to zero in on where these wines would shine. The characteristics of the wines are so foodfriendly that you could honestly bring this to almost any meal or snack and have an enjoyable experience. Try playing around with the service temperature as well. I tried the wines at room temperature and slightly chilled. Most people’s ability to taste sweetness decreases with a drop in temperature. If the wine is too sweet for your taste at room temperature, try it again chilled. I especially enjoyed the Haskap Dry wine with my favorite sandwich that is inspired by The Green Olive Cafe in Squamish, BC. It is hummus, arugula, figs and green olives on a ciabatta bun. It is tasty as a homemade sandwich and magical if you have the chance to get it from The Green Olive. Having a rich-colored wine taste amazing with this unique little sandwich was absolutely delightful.

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Colin Nickerson works in the winery lab testing wine samples enjoyed the Haskap Dry with more foods and more on its own. When you decide to explore these wines, I recommend picking up both and trying them side-by-side to discover which you prefer. Also, I encourage you to try these wines with a spirit of discovery by having a variety of snacks or foods available to taste the wine with.

The Semi-sweet Apple wine looks like a bottle of white wine and has been created in the spirit of Chardonnay. A popular perception of chardonnay is that it is very oaky and this may have some people disinterested in trying this wine. Compared to that chardonnay perception, this wine almost couldn’t be further from the stereotype. When smelling the wine, the dominant scent is definitely apple, not oak.

This wine smells sweet and tastes sweet. The oak used in making this wine is very subtle and may not be detectable by many tasters. I would recommend this to someone who was curious about trying something new and typically chooses a sweeter drink. Drinkers who would more commonly choose a cooler or semi-sweet cocktail may discover the combo of fruitiness and sweetness in this wine to suit their taste in a fun new way.

The team has also recently launched Solstice Ciderworks, creating ciders from Okanagan apples.

They are offering three varieties of cider Dry Apple Cider, Haskap Cider, and Raspberry Cider. A nice touch they have incorporated into the cider cans is featuring artwork from youth artists in the Yukon. I have not sampled the ciders yet but it is on my to-do list.

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I’ve dug back into the 1930s, 40s and 50s to pass along some of those good old-fashioned recipes.

To properly make pancakes, you’ll need a heavy iron pan. If you don’t have one, use a thick aluminum pan. You’ll know the pan has reached the ideal temperature when you sprinkle drops of cold water into it and they bounce from the surface. If you add some fat to the pan and it starts to smoke, the temperature is too hot. Allow it to cool down some. From my mother’s recipes, I have learned to always add a little melted shortening to the pancake batter.

Finally, when making pancakes, never let your eyes leave the stove. Once the pancakes start to bubble, it’s time to turn them over. Never turn them over twice.

Ingredients 1 1/2 cups our 1 egg 3 tsp baking powder 1 3/4 cups milk (suggest 3%) 1/2 tsp salt 3 tsp melted butter 3 tbsp sugar Instructions Mix all the dry ingredients together and then make a “wellâ€? in the middle of the mix.

Slowly add the egg and milk.

Mix until you get a smooth mixture.

Now add the melted butter.

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Your Backyard

Viewing Stones It’s all about suggestion

by Hugh Copland

Part One Gongshi, suiseki, and suseok are not the latest food craze you missed out on because you were busy with your sourdough starter, they are ancient forms of the art of stone appreciation.

Gongshi translates as gong – spirit and shi – stone. Known in the west as scholar stones or viewing stones, they originated in China during the Han Dynasty beginning about 200 years BCE. The stones range in size from pebbles to over a metre tall. Most are sized to sit on a desk or table, the larger ones are outside in gardens. The most popular stones resembled mountains.

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dmired stone qualities include: colour, shape, markings, texture and in some cases, sound. In early gongshi black was the favoured colour, thinness was in, as were wrinkles.

Suggestiveness has always been the most important quality. The stone was not supposed to be an exact replica of something, but only suggest at that relationship.

Some scholar stones are drilled, cut and polished to enhance their characteristics.

Suseok is the Korean equivalent of gongshi, beginning about the same time as the Chinese. Unlike gongshi, suseok stones can not be altered or cut in any way, they must be natural. The ultimate Korean stones were called ‘myungseok’, meaning masterpiece. Collectors only ever endeavoured to own one myungseok. They were known as one lifetime stones.

The Japanese art of suiseki did not begin until 600 AD. It rose to popularity around 1200 AD when the samurai warriors were in power. The samurai practiced Zen Buddhism and were attracted by

subtle and austere stones that left more to the imagination. The power of suggestiveness was taken to new levels. To become one with the stone through meditation was to become enlightened. Some carried their prized stone with them when travelling.

The next renaissance in suiseki happened in the 1600-1800’s. Increased international trade led to a class of rich merchants and aristocrats in Japanese society.

They admired the complex style of the early gongshi and combined it with bonsai. The two are used to enhance each other. The plant and the stone must be in harmony.

PHOTO: Hugh Copland

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ther. Shapes can be either landscapes: mountains, waterfalls, islands, caves; or objects: animals, humans, buildings. Colours can range from black to rainbow.

Origins are usually river names or mountain ranges where the stones are found.

Patterns feature plants, celestial objects, weather, or just abstract. One of the more unique patterns is the chrysanthemum rock. Elongate crystals of celestite, a strontium sulphate mineral, can grow in a pattern that suggests the flower of a chrysanthemum. These form in limestones in the deep ocean. Extreme pressure forces strontium out of the water to form crystals of celestite in the limestone. The crystals start from

one pressure point and radiate outwards in petal shapes, some a few centimetres in size.

Usually only one of the groups is used in the stone name. Occasionally they are grouped on the basis of all four attributes and there are rules on the order they are listed. The collector gets to add a spiritual name at the end.

Covello and Yoshimura give as an example: “Kamogawa River, pit mark pattern, jet black, distant mountain, Shangri-La”.

Some alteration of the natural stone is allowed in suiseki, generally limited to cutting a flat surface on the bottom of the stone so it can be set on a base. The base is known as a ‘dai’; it can enhance the beauty and presenta-

tion of a stone. Hardwoods such as walnut, cherry, teak and rosewood are preferred. There are many guidelines on how the dai should be sized and how the stone is positioned. If a stone is placed wrong it disturbs the spirit of the stone and brings misfortune to the owner.

Continued in Part 2.

Hugh Copland is a geological engineer living on the South Klondike Highway. He has been collecting rocks in the Yukon for the past 38 years.

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Meet the seep monkeyflower I

f spring brings Monkeyflowers, what do monkeyflowers bring?

Springs! Seep monkeyflowers indicate the locations of underground freshwater springs.

While working on my project with CPAWS Yukon this summer, I stumbled across information about a bright yellow flower that caught my interest. My project is focused on the biodiversity of the McIntyre Creek area, a wilderness corridor which passes through the City of Whitehorse. While gathering information about the area, I learned about a striking flowering plant that is found in a unique habitat in the Yukon This plant can be found along McIntyre Creek and I made it a personal goal to find and photograph it myself. Serendipitously, about a week later, my friend and coworker sent me an observation she had just uploaded to the community science site, iNaturalist.

“By the way,” it said. “I found an interesting flower yesterday in the McIntyre Creek area … it is considered VU (vulnerable).” She had unintentionally found the same yellow flower I had just learned about and been looking for.

If you come across a large,

Seep monkeyflower in bloom PHOTOS: Maegan McGraw

An indicator of freshwater springs bright yellow speckled flower growing in wetland areas in southern Yukon, you may have encountered something extra special.

Seep monkeyflower is a model organism, meaning it is well-suited to experimentation. Findings about the species can be used to answer broader questions about evolution and ecology. A member of the figwort family, pollinated by bees, seep monkeyflowers bloom in large yellow flowers, of which the lower lobe is dotted with brown-to-red spots. Though rather inconspicuous prior to blooming, the monkeyflower’s bloom stands out vividly against the backdrop of deep greens found in its typical water-logged habitat. It can be found growing along creeks and springs from Mexico to the Yukon and Alaska. Seep monkeyflower’s survival is limited by cold winters, so in the northern portion of its range, the species is restricted to habitats that remain (relatively) warm through the winter.

In the Yukon, the flower is only found in warm habitats supplied with ample freshwater, so it’s ranked as vulnerable by NatureServe, meaning it is “at moderate risk of extinction or collapse due to a fairly restricted range, relatively few populations or occurrences, recent and widespread declines, threats, or other activities.”

Seep monkeyflower hasn’t yet been assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered

Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).

The habitat requirements of the seep monkeyflower in southern Yukon make the plant an indicator species for something highly valuable: permanent freshwater springs.

Permanent freshwater springs are unique and biologically rich ecosystems found within the semiarid and low-productivity environment of southern Yukon. The water in most springs flows seasonally, or only during wet years.

Some springs are either saline or basic, occupied by plants specialized for that type of environment.

However, permanent freshwater springs flow year-round, meaning they do not dry up or freeze in the winter. This feature, combined with fresh water flowing straight from the ground at anywhere between 2 and 7 degrees C, supports a variety of unique species. These include diverse invertebrates, insectivorous birds and animals, overwintering fish and drought, or frost-intolerant plants.

Permanent freshwater springs can also contribute to maintaining open water, or sections of weak ice in the creeks the springs drain into. Though they are usually avoided by industry, permanent freshwater springs can be used for aquaculture, bottled water and mining. Permanent freshwater springs can be difficult for the untrained eye to identify, but there cont’d on page 20 ...

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Meet the seep monkeyflower ... continued from page 16 are a few plants to look for.

If you spot a seep monkeyflower (most easily done in June and July when they are in bloom), you can be sure you are at a permanent freshwater spring. There are also a few secondary indicator species of permanent freshwater springs, meaning they usually grow in this type of habitat, but can also be found elsewhere. Secondary indicator species include American

brooklime, purple-leaved willowherb, and green-tongued liverwort.

Overall, the Yukon’s permanent freshwater springs are poorly documented. This lack of knowledge is also the greatest threat to these valuable areas. If you live in Whitehorse, take a wander in the McIntyre Creek area and keep an eye out for the seep monkeyflower. Watch where you

Seep monkeyflowers indicate the locations of underground freshwater springs

PHOTOS: Maegan McGraw

Permanent freshwatersprings are unique and biologically rich ecosystems found within the semi-arid and low-productivity environment of southern Yukon step, though—like any wetland, these are sensitive areas that can be easily trampled and damaged, compromising their role as frog and bird habitat.

Once you know what to look for, keep an eye out for monkeyflowers while on other outings in the territory. In winter, watch for areas of melted snow that reveal a thick layer of moss and open water. You can also chat with the folks at Yukon’s Conservation Data Centre to let them know about the location of any springs you find and learn more about rare or at-risk species to look for while you’re enjoying the great outdoors.

A great resource for the bud-

ding naturalist is iNaturalist. The platform is accessible as a website and as a free phone app that makes uploading observations directly from your phone a seamless process. Consider creating an iNaturalist account and uploading your observations of plants, wildlife, insects, or any other interesting natural thing you encounter while outside, like I did when I finally saw a seep monkeyflower along McIntyre Creek.

I’ve found iNaturalist to be a great resource for learning about and identifying different species.

The platform has impressive artificial intelligence software that matches your observation with others and suggests identifica-

tions. Experts then quickly suggest or confirm identifications. Once confirmed, observations reach ‘research grade’ status, used by researchers and contributing to scientific understanding of species distributions and phenology.

For example, I’ll be downloading iNaturalist observations from the McIntyre Creek area as part of my work. I plan on highlighting the seep monkeyflower and the highly valuable permanent freshwater springs that quietly support biodiversity right outside our back door.

Maegan McGraw is the Junior Conservation Coordinator for CPAWS Yukon.

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spalier’d fruit trees press themselves against stone walls, looking down on neat rows of turned earth. Some are lined with glass cloches. I now know these cover strawberries in a bid to be the first to market. I imagine seeing through the wall of stone that separates the market garden, my granddad’s responsibility, from the “home garden,” mostly herbs, tended by the lady of the house.

Most of all I wish I could see the orangerie, a place to sit for tea and contemplation, sheltered beneath a glass overhang and surrounded with oranges and lemons. A far cry, perhaps, from the rough benches I tuck beneath my apple trees in

their plastic tents, but my nooks are open to all. The orangerie was out of bounds for my family.

As leaves start to fall and I swaddle my garden in rows of spun plastic to protect it from night frosts, I am exploring my family connection to gardening. Perhaps it’s because I feel a little alone sometimes, a spur way out on the family tree with little connection to roots that lie in other countries and cultures.

My backwoods northern lifestyle mirrors that of my childhood, but in the little I know of my family history I am unaware of prominent gardeners or farmers with strong connections to the land that feeds them.

There is one recollection, a mention in one of the few anecdotes I know from my father’s childhood, that his dad had a market garden for a number of years. I know the lead is thin, the trail winding across continents and through a life with little connection to the agrarian. It is

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only now, in near-retirement, after decades of working in far corners of the globe, that my dad is turning to the Earth in his own backyard. It seems a fitting time for me to ask about granddad’s stint as a market gardener near Windsor Castle, the only landmark of his childhood I can place without a map.

I am full of questions about vegetable varieties and cultivation techniques, but also relationship to land and the existential conundrums of human and nature that turn over in my mind as I turn over the soil and the compost in the gardes.What I get instead is a delightful ramble down memory lane, one anecdote leading to another until we stray far beyond the bounds of those stone walls. I follow gamely across the vast lawns of the estate, of which the garden was part, gleaning details on the various mowers used to keep them manicured. To the woods where the

gentry hunted foxes, where Dad climbed to pick mistletoe to sell to the shopkeepers and where his dad shot pheasants and rabbits. I hear how the rabbits were deformed by a deliberately introduced disease to lower rampant populations, how the cottage they lived in had a large coal pile out the back amongst the nasturtiums. I meet the poodles, Roly and Mortime, that lived at the “big house” along with Lord and Lady Bellew. I hear about the gatherings beginning with fancy cars coming up the drive to drop off important guests, how my dad, an entrepreneurial lad, would serve tea and cake in the garden to the chauffeurs. Apparently my grandmother was amazed at their generosity when he collected his cap at the end of such an affair. She shouldn’t have been; it was most likely her cake.The England of the 1950s was a different era.

I came to gardening by accident I suppose, in young adulthood, and succumbed quickly to the miraculous transformation of seed into plant into food, bowled over by the delight of, yes, nasturtiums, and the possibility of a modicum of selfreliance in an age where it feels like everything necessary to life is outsourced. I found something real in gardening that was lacking in my cerebral education, a sort of practical, hands-on application of processes I had learned to watch with cont’d on page 25 ...

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“Most of all I wish I could see the orangerie, a place to sit for tea and contemplation, sheltered beneath a glass overhang and

and put them out of their misery. I liked the show of outrage he put on when the neighboring landowner hauled my dad home by his ear for having “poached” mistletoe across the property line, and the way it melted into a wink and a handshake for his enterprising son once said landowner was out of sight. It turns out it doesn’t matter if anyone else in my family, extant or not, is a farmer. I can emulate with pride a way of being in the world. I am grateful for being reminded to ask for stories. Thanks, Dad. Let’s take another trip down memory lane soon.

surrounded with oranges and lemons.”

PHOTO: Derek Melton

The market garden at Dower House, near Old Windsor, UK, 1964 wonder studying ecology. I don’t know if the market garden was more than a job for my granddad.

Traumatized from the war and with little schooling, he was nonetheless capable. Good with his hands.

Caring for the estate of one of the upper class provided a salary and variety. Landscaper, gardener, repairman, chauffeur, even serving at fancy dinner parties.

Did providing food directly for his family give a sense of autonomy in a time when few dreamt of crossing class lines? I don’t know.

The time to ask such questions has

long passed.

I did learn some of the specifics of the garden as well, of the produce that was sold to shops in the nearby villages of Old Windsor, Edam and a couple of others.

Dad would bunch sweet peas and pick runner beans and snap peas.

In spring, there were tulips. Apples were harvested in the fall. Potatoes, leeks, lettuce and onions all found their place in the garden, along with the prize crop, the strawberries. Mulched with straw over winter and covered with their precious glass cloches, I can see

the tiny red jewels sparkling when little else was ready.

I admit that I found myself quickly distracted from my initial questions (how many kinds of potatoes?) as my dad’s stories revealed snippets of the man his father was, a man who died on the other side of an ocean while I was still a child. I remember being achingly sad when I learned he was gone, but can recall little, save a warm presence and large, calloused hands. I was glad to hear that he would seek out rabbits struck by myxomatosis (a disease of rabbits)

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Art Matters with Julie Jai and David Trick

A conversation with Ron and Kip Veale A

s people who love Yukon art, we have often wondered how a good artist becomes a well-known artist whose work sells for a fair price? Lately we have been speaking with art collectors, dealers, curators and other experts who have insights on how to make a living in the arts.

Most recently, we sat down with Ron and Kip Veale, who are well-known supporters of the Yukon arts community. Here are some excerpts from our conversation.

What was the first piece of art you ever bought?

Ron: Our first painting was a portrait of Kip that we commissioned from Jeremy Smith, who has become a well-regarded art-

ist based in Kitchener. He was just getting started at the time and we were young students ourselves.

Kip: This was when we were first married. It was important for us to have things we could see that were part of us and to have something that we chose together.

How did you get to know Yukon art? What makes Yukon art distinct?

Ron: We first came here in 1970, then came back and spent a summer at Forty Mile in 1971 while I was in law school. I worked with Alan Innes-Taylor, who had a vast knowledge of the land and history of the Yukon. He arranged for us to go to Forty Mile. We moved here permanently in 1973.

Kip: Many of the pieces of art

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we love are landscapes. It comes from what we saw in those three years. That’s how we felt about it. It was a much different feeling than if we had stayed in Ontario.

You don’t always have people around you, the way you would in Toronto.

Ron: A lot of Yukon art is informed by the land. The artist often knows the land well. You see landscapes, animal life, elements of First Nations spirituality and sometimes combinations of all of these. The art is often representational, but with a distinctive style. Ted Harrison’s landscapes were stylized. Janet Moore, who is now based in Ontario, painted beautiful scenes of the mountains in autumn.

What does an artist need to do to become better known?

Ron: An artist needs a champion. Ted Harrison had a champion in Ottawa who promoted his work.

A champion can help you find a collector who will take an interest in buying your art. If a gallery

owner likes your work and picks you up, you are laughing.

Andrew and Heather Finton, who founded the carving program that is now the Northern Cultural Expressions Society, championed artists at the very earliest stages of their careers, before anyone really knew what they could do.

They helped the artists believe in themselves, develop their skills and find their artistic voices.

It’s also important for an artist to champion their own work. You have to know the value of what you are producing and insist on being paid properly.

What advice would you give someone who is thinking of collecting art?

Ron: Buy what you like. You will get more sophisticated as you buy. If you wait to buy an expensive piece, you may wait a long time. But if you buy a $200 one, you can get started. Many of the first pieces we bought in the Yukon were not expensive.

Kip: Art is just something we

PHOTO: Pixabay enjoy. We have never thought of art as an investment. We just buy what we love.

Sometimes we value art for the memories it brings. When I visited Africa, I got to know some carvers in central Kenya very well.

I learned so much from them.

When I left, one family gave me a piece of sculpture in honour of their daughter who had died. They wanted me to have it. It’s very meaningful, and I treasure it.

Ron: In the summer I like to hike in remote areas for a few days. There are paintings I love of those landscapes. Every time I look at them, my mind goes back to being there. It transports you.

Do you create art yourselves?

Kip: Luckily neither of us were good enough to make art ourselves!

Julie Jai and David Trick are the co-founders of the Yukon Prize for Visual Arts. www.yukonprize.ca

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