pferguson | June 29, 2020
Revisiting Earlier Research This night I delve into past research to find a few words for the day. Amongst my work, from late 2014 – early 2015, I find references about two soldier graves at Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, B.C. As many of you are aware, I often turn to Ross Bay…its finely kept grounds […]
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Tags: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Craigdarroch Military Hospital, Edward VIII (Prince of Wales), Joan and Robert Dunsmuir, John James Kneale, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria Academy of Music, Victoria College, William J. Reed
pferguson | May 10, 2019
Ross Bay’s Great War A recent weekend provided opportunity for a wandering about of Victoria’s Ross Bay Cemetery. Stretched alongside Dallas Road with refreshing views and sounds of water pondering at the nearby shoreline…I breathe deeply…there is salt in the air today. A goodly time has passed since I last truly wandered this story-scape – […]
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Tags: A. Beaufin Irving, A.H.G. Cutt, Augustus Waterous Agnew, Blaney Scott, C.B. Johnston, City of Victoria Archives, Edward Eric Pearson, F. Despard Pemberton, Family, Fred Fletcher Elliott, Geo. A.C. Stewart, George Henry Ablett, George Philip Beynon, George Robert Gray, George W. Elliott, George Walter Nation, Gerald D. Miller, Gerald Hamilton Peters, Horace John Stewart Paul, Irving Archer, J.W. Dowler, James Dunsmuir Jr., John Franklyn Peters, John Galt, John Norman Spencer, John T. Davies, John Wilkinson, Mortimer H. Tait, Natural History, Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria, R.C. Wolfe, R.W. Eaton, Raymond Harlan Brewster, Remembrance, Richard Litchfield, Robert Patton, Roderick Hamilton Finlayson, Ross Bay Cemetery, Ross Bay Cemetery Records, Survey, Tom H. Scott, Victoria BC, W.A. Campbell, Warren C. Pemberton, William Dumbleton Holmes
pferguson | November 6, 2018
One suggestion…one step…and a million more followed Sometimes when sifting through the research and images, recollections and recall, I ask myself what were the origins of a specific project? Where did it all begin? The hours of enjoyment wandering about paths and trails, the gentle cadence through a library’s stacks, the scrambling through newspapers and […]
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Tags: 7th Battalion CEF, Belgium Remembered in British Columbia, Christ Church Cathedral (Victoria), Dr. Alan Gowans, Frederick Walter Nation, Memorial Architecture, Memorial Museum Passchendaele, Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ross Bay Cemetery, University of Victoria, Zillebeke, Zonnebeke
pferguson | June 10, 2018
Someday Here We Will Meet Again …a while ago I have stood here many times, brought others to you and wondered who you are…and yet for all the time that has passed – today you have spoken. Who are you Piper John MacLeod? …this day I have walked this place of memory since the late […]
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Tags: 102nd Battalion (North British Columbians), 67th Battalion CEF (Western Scots), Balallan, Bushey Park (England), Empress Hotel, Harry Hardy, Illness, Isle of Lewis, James C. Hanna, John Weightman Warden DSO, King Edward Hotel, King's Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Lewis Chess Pieces, Loyal Lewis Roll of Honour, Mark Knopfler, Passchendaele, Piper John MacLeod, Piper Major Billy Wishart, Piper to the End, pipers, Private C. Haggerty, Private H. Clear, Private H.M. Henderson, Private J. Grant, Private J. Robinson, Private S. Trickett, Resthaven Hospital (Sidney), Ross Bay Cemetery, Stornoway, Victoria BC, Victoria Military Hospital (Esquimalt)
