History
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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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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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Darwin’s Bulldog
It’s the 181st anniversary of the birth of T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley, eminent biologist, close friend of Charles Darwin and one of the staunchest supporters of Darwin’s Natural Selection, a man who did much to see it accepted and popularized. He tirelessly advocated and promoted Darwin’s work (while not blindly following it, he criticized several
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One Year On…
Today marks the one year anniversary of the murders of Brock Myrol, Leo Johnston, Peter Schiemann and Anthony Gordon, four members securing a crime scene near Mayerthorpe Alberta. If you ever wanted to know how a member feels about the death of a colleague, friend, fellow member, I can think of no words more eloquent
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Thirty? Can’t be.
I received an email from a high school classmate today. She let me know that we are having a class reunion this September 16th, at home in Roblin. The only problem is, is she made several typos in the email, she kept referring to it being thirty years since graduation. Must be someone else’s grad.
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Remembrance Day
They grow not old, as we who are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We will remember them. Remembrance Day is by far one of the most important days of my year. A day which holds so much meaning and emotion
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Kautaq Joseph (c1930-2005)
One of Arctic Bay’s Elders, and one of my favourite people, died this evening here in Arctic Bay. Kautaq Joseph was a fantastic woman, born around 1930, with sparkling eyes and a ready smile, a truly beautiful woman. She had lived in Arctic Bay (the community) longer than anyone else, having moved here when she