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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 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)

Dateline Vancouver: British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology

June 8, 2014 By Guy St. Clair

Thursday was our day to visit the splendid Museum of Anthropology and we had ourselves a wonderful visit. As anyone who has been to Vancouver knows, this is one of North America’s most beautiful cities, and we are definitely enjoying the harbor area (where our hotel is located) and watching the great cruise ships come …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: anthropology, First Nations Peoples, MOA Centre for Cultural Research, MOACAT, Reid (Bill), UBC Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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