Petroglyphs on Gabriola

xplorers of Gabriola Island seeking the historic petroglyphs created by ancestors of the Snuneymuxw First Nation can now learn the stories behind the rock art in Snuneymuxw

History Written in Places and Spaces: Ancestors‘

Voices—An Echo in Time (New Society $15). Written by elder and traditional knowledge keeper Geraldine Manson the booklet has been produced through a partnership between Snuneymuxw First Nation, the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society, and New Society Publishers. Manson shares sacred knowledge passed down through Snuneymuxw oral history. This unique work gives an overview of the many Gabriola petroglyphs as well as other sites of cultural significance and traditional Hul’q’umi’num place names on the island. 9780865719859 winter in the North, giving them credibility. “Sourdough was the main bread eaten during the gold rush,” writes Phil Lind, adding, “a prospector protected their sourdough bread starter by keeping it close to the body, usually in a small container hung around the neck to keep the yeast warm and active.” Phil Lind became a collector of Klondike memorabilia, a collection he recently donated to UBC Library including diaries, letters and other personal items from the 40,000 people who joined the historic gold rush.

9781774582930 during the klondike gold rush, dawson City was hailed as the “Paris of the North” for its saloons, gambling halls and especially its theatres. In venues with names like Grand Opera House, Tivoli Theatre and the Orpheum, live theatre flourished until it gave way to cinema when an enterprising theatre manager, Alexander Pantages, brought the first films to the city on June 18, 1900. Many decades later, hundreds of boxes of silent films, mostly intact, were found buried in the permafrost when an old hockey arena was being demolished, as described in Hollywood in the Klondike (Lost Moose Books $34.95). Including a good general history of the Klondike Gold Rush, the book links the two cities with icons such as Robert Service, Jack London, Charlie Chaplin and Pantages himself, who went on to control a chain of theatres across North America.

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