The Water Diviner and the Search for Canadian Great War Stories

| August 29, 2015

Finding Water – Finding Story When I was young, some forty years ago, I came to British Columbia and lived near a place that my maternal family had called home since the 1860s. Having lived in many places, across Canada and overseas, this new place of generational connection was foreign to me. Yet I wanted […]

There and Back Again

| August 22, 2015

Eric Valentine Gordon I can imagine them gathered around a table perhaps with a jug of ale, mead or warm cider. Finger foods, breads, meats and good conversation abound in tales of great imagination possibly anchored in some old tale of Norse or other. What brought them together…a common interest to share and then so […]

We Are Parts of Many Things

| August 16, 2015

A Journey and Study of Context It was a curious thing I set out upon.   Having traveled many times to London, England and ventured forth from various rail stations to different parts of the United Kingdom, I took on more and more the role of the observer of place. These built structures and landscapes […]

A Scottish Soldier

| August 7, 2015

Great War Canadian Scottish Battalions There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier Who wandered far away and soldiered far away…  …And on a hillside, a Scottish hillside You’ll see a piper play his soldier home… The Scottish entertainer Andy Stewart (1933 – 1993) penned the lyrics A Scottish Soldier set to the traditional Scottish tune, […]