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Birdsong
I’m sitting here, in the livingroom, listening to birdsong just outside the door. The House is quiet, our only client having left for the morning. Travis and Leah are still asleep, Hilary is in my lap, smiling of course, and the smell of the coffee is wafting up from the kitchen. I’m not yet ready…
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More Carvings
This is a series of carvings by Samo Issuqangituq of Arctic Bay (now living in Iqaluit). They are of a Seal Hunter, Drum Dancer, Fisherman, and a Woman Gathering Eggs. Amongst the first carvings I bought and my favourites, the photo doesn’t do them justice. The detail on the char alone is exquisite. Egg Gatherer,…
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A Peterhead loon far awa’ fae hame… Podcast
Link to Part one I thought you might enjoy seeing this short video of the Re-dedication ceremony of John Davidson’s grave at Fellfoot Point… I offer to you two sizes but they are both fairly large files. The large version is 7.4 megs and the small version is 2.3. In the small version you probably…
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A Peterhead loon far awa’ fae hame… Part four
Link to Part one I had been thinking about blogging about John Davidson for some time now. Thinking about it, but that was all. I had long been sitting on an article that I had wanted to submit to a Northern magazine, but it all seemed incomplete. So it never went anywhere, no magazine, and…
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A Peterhead loon far awa’ fae home… Part three
Link to Part one The answer to the question of how the headstone came to Dundas Harbour was finally found in the archives of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Winnipeg. The HBC leased the buildings at Dundas Harbour from the RCMP between 1934 and 1936. In July of 1935, C. Russell, the post manager, along…
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Extrajudicial detention and torture
I’ve long been opposed to things like extrajudicial detention and torture, but after long consideration I’ve decided I’m willing to consider it for SPAMMERS!
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A Peterhead loon far awa’ fae hame… Part two
Link to Part one. A hundred and fifteen years later, in August of 2000 I first learned of John Davidson’s demise in the Canadian Arctic. I was leading a tour for Quest Nature Tours and we stopped at Dundas Harbour, some hundred and sixty kilometers east of Fellfoot Point. I was a member of the…
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A Peterhead loon far awa’ fae hame.
When I first visited Dundas Harbour I was struck by many things. It is a place of splendid isolation, and I often reflect on what it would have been like to be posted there in the 1920’s, with no one to police and only one way in or out. Of course for two of our…
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Qayaq not Kayak
This is one of my favourite carvings, a gift from Leah. The artist is Jutanee Attagutaluk of Arctic Bay. Hunter in Qayaq – Caribou antler, Seal Skin & wood.
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They say it’s your Blogiversary
Today is my one year blogiversary, and what a long strange trip it has been. One year, 255 posts and 610 thoughtful comments. Two hundred and fifty-five posts would mean that, on average, I’m writing some drivel five days out of every week. No wonder my dishes aren’t done. These pages have been visited here…
