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Vancouver: Bill Reid’s Monumental Sculpture

March 6, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

In Brief. When we think about Northwest Coast Art and Vancouver, we are naturally drawn to what is considered by many to be the most important (I think I earlier said “almost-iconic”) work of Haida artist Bill Reid. I’m not sure – and probably not enough of an expert in the study of this art …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Nature, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, MOA, Museum of Anthropology, Raven (creation myth), Reid (Bill), The Raven and the First Men (sculpture), University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver

Vancouver: Northwest Coast Art

February 15, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

Last October, after we had crossed Canada by train (The Canadian, highly recommended), Andrew and I spent the remaining weeks of our vacation in further explorations in Vancouver and, for a bit, in Victoria. Some of these activities (and the train trip) were captured in our several “digital postcards,” posted to the right here. The …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Nature, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: art, Bill Reid Gallery, First Peoples, Haida Gwaii (First People), Manion (Kevin), Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Northwest Coast Art, Raven and the First Men (art work), Reid (Bill), Stanley (Dale & Debi), University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Vancouver: A Very Different Work of Public Art

November 13, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A Somewhat Enigmatic Work We found something completely different in one of our walkabouts in Vancouver. When our friend Kevin Manion was visiting us from Seattle and we were heading toward the harbor, we came across another work of art, this one unlike anything we had ever experienced before (assuming we consider a church something …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Manion (Kevin), Storey (Alan), Vancouver (Environment Canada and Oceans & Fisheries Building), Vancouver (Public Art)

Vancouver: Christ Church Cathedral

November 3, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Perhaps a New Way of Thinking about Organized Religion While I’m not much of a religious fellow, one of my favorite things is just to go and sit in churches. I don’t know why, and there’s no sense in trying to “dig too deeply” (perhaps it’s all that church music I sang in choirs over …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Anglican Church of Canada, Art (Stained-Glass), Christ Church Cathedral (Vancouver), Diversity (Spiritual), Inclusion (Religious), Religion (Established), Religious mission, Social mission, War Memorials

Vancouver: A Very Welcoming City

October 29, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A New Favorite Hotel and Perhaps a New Favorite City When we made our plans for visiting this lovely city (which we had visited in 2014 for a professional conference), we chose the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, falling in with the Fairmont chain just as we had done for Toronto and Victoria. And as I say, …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver (Architecture)

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