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War stories
Remembering the stories of relatives lost to war
Bowen ball of yarn
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Emergency shelter currently homeless MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
On Friday afternoon, a group of islanders migrated to from the Snug Café to the Caring Circle cottage on Cardena Road to discuss ways to provide immediate help to individuals on Bowen Island who find themselves without a safe, warm and dry place to spend the night. They emerged with a plan to set up a temporary emergency shelter on the second floor of the library, a week later, the shelter is closed due to library renovations and there is shelter of any form said up for Bowen Islanders without a safe and reliable home. The initial push to set up a shelter came Thursday after a day of bitter cold, snow and high winds. The power went out across the island around 8pm, and Islander Jen McIntyre wrote and posted the story of her day on the Bowen Island Everything Else Facebook Page. Her story told of lucking-out by finding a hard-working labourer on short notice on a miserable day, helping him out by bringing him home to warm up and get clean and dry, and then ended in despair, with the man leaving, with no place where he would be able to spend the night. “Shouldn’t anyone who really wants to be here, be afforded a chance at a locally good-paying job, a warm bed and a place to bathe and cook?” Asked McIntyre. “He must be trying to find a ride to ‘somewhere,’ right now, and the wind is howling.” This kicked off a long conversation about homelessness on Bowen, and by the next day, plans for an afternoon meeting to take action were in place. A group of ten concerned Bowen Islanders plus RCMP Cpl. Paulo Arreaga, Colleen O’Neil from Caring Circle, Councilor Gary Ander and the Municipality’s Emergency Services Co-Ordinator, Jen McGowan, met at Caring Circle. McGowan took the lead on the meeting by saying that BC Housing Funds emergency shelters, but an Emergency Housing Plan is required to outline a budget, staff and location for the shelter. She said that while a municipality can submit these plans, a non-profit or community group is required to run the shelter. Cpl. Arreaga said that according to the number of cases RCMP have dealt with there are seven people they consider homeless on Bowen Island. Housing advocate Michael Chapman said that eleven people contacted him to state their housing needs as inadequate. Local artist Marc Bauer said he was shocked to learn that homelessness even exists on Bowen Island. Housing advocate Michael Chapman says eleven people have contacted him saying they have inadequate and unstable housing. He asked to know more about who they were, whether they were new people who gravitated to the island or people who had been displaced. “I can tell you there are people who have been homeless on this island for several years,” said Chapman. “Yes, many of these people have problems with mental health and addiction,
A group of Bowen Islanders managed to get a temporary emergency shelter set up for the homeless in the upstairs part of the library over the weekend. Meribeth Deen, photo
but shouldn’t we be finding ways to get them the help they need?” After a call with Municipal Chief Administrative Officer Kathy Lalonde, councillor Gary Ander returned to the meeting with news that the second floor of the library could be used as a shelter space for a few days. Chapman volunteered to stay in the shelter and take responsibility for the situation. “On the first night, one person other than me spent the night and we had several other visitors,” says Chapman. “One person had a bath, and expressed his extreme gratitude for the chance to have his first bath in three years. We also went out that night and brought pizza to several other individuals sleeping in various locations around the Cove.”
Chapman says that there were several other visitors over the next few nights, but he is not keen on focusing on numbers. “In order for a shelter to be effective, you need to have a strong outreach component and build trust. That takes time, especially with people who we have disenfranchised,” he says. By Monday, the library started to move books into the upstairs space in order to prepare for the next stage of renovation. That evening, the group re-convened to talk about the next steps. Reverend Shelagh MacKinnon had volunteered Collins Hall as an option for an emergency shelter, but a number of people argued that this was too far from the Cove. continued P3
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Meeting Calendar November 10, 2017 8:30 am Economic Development
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10:30 am on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 Council Chambers Municipal Hall DVP-05-2017 (1395 Eagle Cliff Rd)
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November 14, 2017 10:30 am Special Council Meeting
A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 1395 Eagle Cliff Rd (shown on map below) to increase maximum allowed projection of a roof overhand and a deck into a required setback. The variance would facilitate the construction of a new house.
November 14, 2017 3:30 pm Snug Cove Improvements Working
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Bowen Island Municipality seeks a qualified permanent full-time Roads Crewperson. The Roads Crewperson is an outside labour position. This person will primarily be responsible for assisting with the maintenance of the Municipality’s roads and drainage as well as some additional labour tasks related to other Municipal infrastructure. In addition, winter maintenance requirements would consist of snow clearing from roadways and applying anti-ice material amongst other duties. This position will require that the crewperson interact in a courteous manner with the public and is based on 35 hours per week. Please submit your cover letter, resume, and references via mail, facsimile, or email by 4:00 pm on Friday, November 10th, 2017 to: Shayle Duffield, Human Resources Coordinator 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G2 Email: hr@bimbc.ca Fax: 604-947-0193
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DVP-07-2017 (465 Sunset Road) A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 465 Sunset Road (shown on map below) to increase the maximum floor area of a detached secondary suite from 115 square metres to 129 square metres. There is an existing house on the property, and the owner wishes to build a new house and to use the existing house as a detached secondary suite. To allow this without requiring alterations to the existing house, Council would need to allow a larger detached secondary suite on this property. Questions? Please contact Daniel Martin, Island Community Planner at 604-947-4255 or dmartin@bimbc.ca.
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Council adopts new 10-year Community feedback critical to creation of community centre Cultural Master Plan MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
After two years of hard work and community consultation, initiated and led by the Bowen Island Arts Council (BIAC), BIM Council has adopted the revised Cultural Master Plan as Bylaw #466 on October 10. Dave Pollard, chair of the Cultural Plan’s steering committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of BIAC, says this is significant because the plan’s approval continues to recognize the Arts Council as the leading organization for the implementation of arts and culture on Bowen. “We’ve identified 16 strategic goals and 36 recommendations for our community’s cultural development moving forward,” says Pollard. “These activities will be on top of all the things the Arts Council has always done and will continue to do. The activities identified in the Cultural Plan push the boundaries of the things we always do… they won’t require a large amount of funding, what they will require energy to push them forward.” The ideas identified in the plan include strengthening connections between Bowen’s
students and local artists, creating a craft-producer’s co-op to manage and market its member’s products, and reviewing the current draft policy guidelines for movie companies to receive permission to film on Bowen and include provisions on local hiring. Pollard says that moving these ideas forward will probably start by someone hosting a salon, or simply by some kind of experimental action. Once an individual or group has committed to an idea and started visioning a way forward, the Arts Council will do what they can to support that group in making the idea a reality. “If the project champions seek support,” says Pollard, “BIAC, dependent upon resources will attempt to assist with information, ideas, leads, sponsorship, funding and volunteer resources.” Pollard adds that if only six of the plan’s recommendations get done, he won’t consider the project a failure – it will simply mean that Bowen Islanders were too busy to make all the others happen. “Truly, though, I love all of these ideas,” he says. “And I believe we really do have the talent to bring all of them to fruition.”
David Adams, who has championed a group of islanders interested in land art, balances rocks on Bowen at Quarry Park. Land Art is included in the revised Cultural Master Plan. photo submitted
Help make Bowen known for its Land Art DAVID ADAMS SUBMISSION
You can help make Bowen a renowned place for land art...and it all starts with a piece of driftwood (or two or three as the case may be). The Bowen Island Land Art group is dedicated to the creation and promotion of land art; and, there is much enthusiasm for creating a larger scale driftwood sculpture here on the Island. Right now, the actual design remains a secret though we can say it will be exciting, impressive, and appropriate to Bowen. Bowen and the Land Art
Group need your help in collecting driftwood over the next weeks. You can participate in many ways, as little or as much as your heart leads you. Simply put: the Group needs you to collect whatever pieces of driftwood you can and then drop them off at the Firehall on Adams Road just near the Tunstall Bay turnoff. The Firehall has graciously agreed to allow the Group to store driftwood there and there is a tarp laid out near the ‘park and ride’ parking spots. The driftwood is already starting to come in. The Land Art Group needs substantive size pieces with
length (24 inches (min) to 12 feet) and diameter (~3 to 5 inches). The driftwood can be straight, bendy –ideally they’re looking for curves. Sounds intriguing? Great, because the group welcomes anyone on Bowen to participate. From helping to collect driftwood, to scouting locations, to design and/or in creating the actual sculpture, there’s always room for more input and energy. For more information about this initiative, including how you might participate, contact David Adams at 604.376.1474 or davidjadams@shaw.ca.
A vision of the future Bowen Island Community Centre found on the project website: ourislandplace.com MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Major surveys done by Bowen Island organizations in the past few years point towards the need for community gathering spaces, say members of the Municipality’s Community Centre Steering Committee. The Committee is currently waiting on yet another revision to the proposed Centre’s floor plan, and says that they are for more public feedback to shape the project. “Right now, we are looking at $14,000 square feet,” says committee member Jacqueline Massey. “The size has gone down in comparison to earlier plans, but also feedback from our launch at Bowfest made a big impact. One of the major changes has been to the performing arts space and its orientation.
Having shifted that allows for the creation of a back stage area and also anticipated development on lot 2, below the community centre.” Massey and Shauna Jennings say their committee has gone to great lengths to ensure they are avoiding the pitfalls that have seen previous community centre plans fail. “We’ve heard from three former chairs of community centre committees, and they’ve told us that plans have failed because they were too big and unrealizable, because there was not enough support at council, and because the excitement of the people working on the project was quashed by endless reports,” explains Massey. “What’s different now is that we do have the support from council, it is even a key pillar of the 2016 Island Plan. Also, we actually think the size
of what we are proposing is quite modest.” Massey and Jennings say while the committee plans to be ready for all and any federal or provincial funding opportunities that come along, their work is not being held up by the wait. “We want to get this design finalized, we are developing a business case and an operations budget,” says Jennings. “All of this should be helpful when we actually start to fill out those funding applications.” In order to get all of those plans finalized, they want more community feedback about how they and their groups see themselves using the space. On November 30, they’ll be holding an open house at BICS with the design committee on-hand to explain the details of the space as it stands.
Group seeks access to cottage as shelter from PAGE 1
As explained in the meeting, the municipality did not approve of using the Caring Circle building as an Emergency Shelter due to concerns about the septic and washroom facilities. Others began to question the possibility of using the Seaside Cottage at the foot of Crippen Park on Cardena Road as a shelter. The cottage is the property of Metro Parks, and is currently being used as an office. As of Wednesday (the time of publication) members of the group calling themselves Bowen Emergency Shelter Team are trying to connect
with Metro Parks to inquire about using the cottage. The group has collected a total of five foam sleeping pads, and through the weekend members of the community donated food and other items. The group is not currently collecting donations and is asking community members who want to help to simply hold off until there are specific needs to be met. Right now, the sole need is for an accessible, warm and dry place with a functioning toilet that can be opened up for anyone in need on particularly cold nights.
Update on Metro Parks Cottage plan and petition HC BEHM SUBMISSION
On Wednesday morning Judi Gedye, Anne and André Cholat and I went to the monthly meeting of the Regional Parks Committee, joined by Duncan MacLeod Vancouver Maritime Museum’s Curator. After waiting for an hour and a half because of a suddenly declared closed meeting I was given five minutes to make my presentation.
The third item on the agenda was Metro’s staff proposal for the Davies Orchard Cottages. Option 2, namely to remove four cottages and rebuild two of them, was voted as a recommendation to the entire Metro Parks Board which will meet on November 24. There we will make another presentation, this time with more prep work. We want thank the Bowen Island community for their enthusiastic support of the petition to save the cottages. As of this morning we had 507 signatures!
We heard last Sunday was a day to celebrate red heads, so we got a few of the red headed Bowen Islanders together. From left: Calem, Gage, Cindy, Callaghan, Scarlett, Chandy, Euan, Cormac and Lochlan.
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ceremony is a sense of it being unchanged. Its purpose, of course, is to connect us to history. The sense of On Saturday, many of us being unchanged certainwill wander solemnly down ly helps that. At 11:11, the to the Cenotaph as we wait crowd, except for maybe for the annual Remembrance a small child or two, goes Day ceremonies to begin. silent. It’s hard to think of a It will likely be cold, but we more powerful lead-up to a will have our mittens and the speech or sermon. We are warmth of our friends and so fortunate to have Rev. neighbours huddling in one Shelagh MacKinnon taking of the densest crowds you are the mic at that moment, as likely to see on this island. her compassion and choice Part of the beauty of this of words and stories seem to focus, always, on connecting us with our own humanity. Last year I recall feeling deeply gutted by her stories of loss brought by war, and angry at the senselessness of it all. It has been almost one hundred years since Armistice, and The two different coloured poppies so many horrible allow for some difference in the wars have been ways we approach Remembrance Day. You can purchase both at Cates fought since. Naturally, we Pharmacy. have expanded
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the focus of the remembering. Still though, there is that central historic connection, one that we do not necessarily all share. There is a sense that some of us can stand proud for our ancestors being on “the right side of history,” when we know that history is complicated, and that the simple division of things places people in impossible situations. We also need to remember, that World War I, if we are going back to that, was an irrational mass slaughter on all sides, fueled by nationalism and machismo. So, for those of us dedicated to participating in this ritual, Remembrance Day is a moment of pride and connection with this community. For others among us, both the remembering and the thoughts and feelings about the ceremony itself are more complicated, and that’s okay. Here in the Canada, we get to choose where we stand on these things. Hopefully, that decision to view things differently doesn’t leave anyone feeling left out in the cold in this connected community.
Remembering Dad on Remembrance Day Dear Bowen, It was clear from the day my parents arrived, they treasured being part of the Bowen Island community. They cherished family Christmas as their clan of some thirty of us gathered at their home on Lenora and marveled at the hordes of trick or treaters who arrived on their doorstep each Halloween. This year since my Dad died has been an adjustment as we took on the mantel of family seniority from our parents. For my Father, the Remembrance Day
service was the most powerful Island event. For me, as his son, it was a chance to see the pride of service held by my Dad as a young man from the prairies who served on a North Atlantic convoy ship during World War II. Although my Dad won’t be present on Bowen this November 11th, his spirit will be with me standing in silence while attending Armistice Day Service at the Vimy Ridge Memorial, in France. Thank you to all of you for your generosity of community to our Mum and Dad. David Youngson
Thank you to all who care for our safety, who make our jobs a little easier Dear Fellow Bowen Islanders, As I left the Police Station this evening, I was stopped in my tracks. Someone had left a bouquet of flowers at the foot of our proud wooden Mountie in memory of our fallen brother, Constable John Davidson. As you can imagine, it’s a tough conversation at home but also an opportunity to appreciate one another. Thank you kind stranger, this means more than you know. This also speaks volumes of the people we are here to serve on Bowen Island. It’s a great opportunity thank the kind resident who, this summer, did not hesitate in hiking along side Cst Chris Coulter to help locate a missing hiker. Thank you to the locals that assisted us in safely controlling a violent intoxicated person in the Snug Cove area who fortunately got the help they needed. There are many more to thank for their help in making our jobs easier. As much as we are here to keep our community safe, today it was confirmed that my community has us in their hearts and minds and wants us to be safe as well. Cpl. Paulo Arreaga
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“We are no longer cannon fodder.” Considering the message of November 11 sister. My father’s war injuries shortened his life. His only surviving brother and five cousins perished. Anguish over the fate he could not escape and the shame of the atrocities committed by some of his people and his powerlessness to stop it overshadowed his life. It takes minutes to declare a war, and three generations to heal the wounds. We pay our respects to The Fallen once a year and create big monuments, but what are we doing for our permanently wounded soldiers after they have left service? Who thinks of the mothers, wives and children after they lost their son, husband or father? Who thinks of the gigantic injury inflicted on nature, and the collapse in values that should be the foundations of healthy societies? In 1956, the Cold War was
heating up. The Americans reasoned that this defeated and divided country had the most recent experience with the Russian war machine and therefore the Germans would be best suited to supply the front lines. Under this pressure, West Germany introduced the military draft once again. “We are no longer cannon fodder,” responded my father. He helped me leave hours before the draft took effect. Once more, I was a refugee. I arrived in Canada the day the Berlin wall went up: August 12, 1961. Fifty-six years have passed and I am still enjoying a peaceful life in this country, a mosaic of the world. The War Museum in Ottawa celebrates the sacrifice and heroism of Canadian soldiers. Designed by the architect Jason Moriyama, himself interned during
WWII for his Japanese origins, the building is rich in symbolism. For instance, the grand window pointing east at the Peace tower is like the bow of a surfacing submarine. The innermost sanctum is the Hall of Tears, which has a weeping ceiling and a window through which a beam of light falls on the plaque for the Unknown Soldier at precisely 11am, on November 11. It’s worth a pilgrimage. In conclusion, I would like to repeat the last lines from Wilfred Owen’s poem, Strange Meeting, which concludes his own spirit’s conversation with his enemy since their bullets killed each other: I am the enemy you killed, my friend... Let us sleep now. -HC Behm
My family, torn apart by war If you walk into my office, you will see the photo known as “Wait For Me Daddy,” hanging on the wall. That photo shows my Dad as a five year old running to my Grandfather, Jack, hand reached out calling “Wait for me, Daddy,” as he marched down Eighth Street in New Westminster with the British Columbia Regiment on October 1st 1945. The photo was picked up by Life magazine and hung up in every school in BC during the war. You can even see a life sized sculpture of it displayed at the foot of Eight Street In New Westminster; at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa; on a two dollar coin, and a postage stamp. Warren, known as “Whitey,” was enlisted to help sell war bonds, with the slogan, “Buy a war bond and help
My mother and I in the winter of 1944. Out of six children, only my mother and her sister survived the war.
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On November 11, Remembrance Day, we observe a moment of silence to remind us of the service and sacrifice of the men and women who protect our freedoms, to honour the fallen and to stand with those who mourn.
We will not forget.
bring my Daddy home.” My Dad says that the photo captures the emotions of families being ripped apart by war. The British Columbia Regiment was first sent to Nanaimo, and then to both France and the Netherlands. They returned home at the end of the war. The photographer who captured the goodbye photo years earlier was on-hand for his father’s return. Jack did not want pictures, but allowed one quick photoshoot of being re-united with his son to be captured. Today, my Dad, Whitey Bernard lives in Tofino, BC. -Lorinda Strang
Above, the photo known as “Wait for me Daddy,” taken by Claude P. Dettloff from The Province on October 1, 1940 in New Westminster. Left: The same boy as in the above photo, Warren Bernard, with his father Jack at his homecoming. photos submitted by Lorinda Strang
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It is Monday, November 6 and I just finished listening to CBC’s program Ideas, presenting the first of five Massey Lectures by Payam Akhavan, the Iranian born Canadian civil rights lawyer on the topic: In search of a better world. In it, he described how Iran had descended from a short-lived democracy into the murderous theocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini. Payam and his family had to flee because they adhered to the Bahai Faith, which was harshly persecuted. Religious and nationalistic fanatacism have plunged humankind endlessly into the most inhumane horror and continues to do so. My German family and I, too, have been scarred by war. We lost our home and possessions, becoming refugees. The war consumed my mother’s two surviving brothers and a
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Remembering the service and sacrice of the Danish Resistance members and their families.
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Memories of those who served My Grandfather served with the 7th Hussars in the Boer War in 1901 and emigrated to Canada in 1906. He would later serve in World War I with the Seaforth Highlanders at Vimy. He was wounded at Passchendaele. He wrote home to say that
a shell had exploded near by, killing several people. “Blew me kilt off, and wounded me in the buttocks!” He wore his kilt throughout the war.
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Lest The last photo of Alec Elliot before his death at the age of 25.
We Will Remember Them Bowen Irly Building Centre Closed Remembrance Day John James Laudrum, Lieutenant with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. Served in 2nd World War in Europe including the Battle of Ortona. Submitted by Leanne Laudrum (Daughter) And Grandsons Michael & Matthew Laudrum
My grandfather, Alec Elliott, was a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War Two. He was posted to Penhold, Alberta, where he trained Commonwealth pilots how to fly. He met my grandmother there, married and had my father in 1943, before being posted back to England in 1944 for operational duties. My grandmother and father followed him across the Atlantic in a convoy. In January 1945, during his eleventh mission flying Halifax bombers over Germany, he was attacked by a German night fighter and his aircraft lost three of its engines. They tried to make it back behind Allied lines to land but soon realized
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Reconnection with relatives sheds whole new light on history My grandfather, John Grant, never spoke about his time serving in the Navy during World War II. Long after his death, I connected with the descendants of my father’s brother on Ancestry.com, and they pulled out a rescued shoe box full of letters that told the story of both brothers. Hank, my grandfather’s brother, survived the first wave of Dieppe as part of the Canadian Infantry Corps. Three days after wading ashore, he was by a mortar shell that took a chunk of his scalp off. Eventually, Hank made it to safety where he was treated and visited by his brother, my Grandfather, John. John was in the navy and found himself
aboard the HMS Prince of Wales as it sailed into Placentia Bay, NL with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He stood and watched as the leaders shook hands, sealing the deal on the agreement that would bring the United States into the war four months later.’ Unfortunately, my Grandfather and his brother had an argument and lost touch after the war. I am grateful for my family’s rec-connection and understanding of history it has brought. -Kiah Grant
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Hank Grant survived the first wave of Dieppe but was hit with a mortar shell shortly after. He survived and enjoyed a visit from his brother, who he became estranged from shortly after the war. My father, George Liszkowski, fled Poland when he was 12 years old, with his older sister, Danka (she was 16), during the Second World War. They managed to make it to Portugal where they caught a boat that took them north. They settled in Scotland (Edinburgh) and waited for their father and
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older brother, both of whom were fighting in the war. Before the war, my grandfather had established an underground movement in Poland against the Nazis. So the family was very much in trouble and we’re being hunted. The whole ordeal was very frightening for my father. He eventually wrote
the story, had it published and it is now in the British War Museum. This photo was taken the day they all were all reunited in Scotland. It was a very happy day. -- Basia Lieske
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Sharing the experience of war at the Museum and Archives INES ORTNER SUBMISSION
The Remembrance Day exhibit A Legacy Beyond One Day: Bowen Remembers is open for the public. On Display are memories of Bowen Islanders like Honorary Colonel Mike Shields of the Seaforth Highlander, who recounts his remembrance tour that brought him to the Buckingham Palace, Vimy Ridge, The Menin Gate Memorial and to Ypres, France. David Riddell shares his memory of his journey with his father Bill Riddell (WWII veteran, PPCLI) to Italy and Holland, retracing Bill’s War Diary with an unexpected encounter and Marlene Mather remembers her husband Earl,
WWII veteran and how a memory is closely related to a zucchini recipe. On display is also the history of how Bowen as community remembers its war veterans by maintaining and protecting the cenotaph over the years. We are able to show rare footage from the Cenotaphs inauguration ceremony in 1937. We also would like to introduce recent war Veteran Ian Lang, who served in Afghanistan and offered to share his uniform as well as some other memorabilia with the community. Bowen Island Museum and Archives gratefully appreciate the generous contribution of Bowen islanders to this exhibit. Thank you. The exhibit is open, this Friday the 10th, 12-4, on Remembrance Day 11-3 and next week Mo., Tue., Wed., Thu. from 12-4
Bowen Islanders enjoyed turkey, ham, tofu and all the fixings at the United Church’s 23rd annual Fall Supper. Food and service was made possible by many volunteers, including Will and Daley Thompson (left) and Lynn Williams, Sylvia Boss, Sue Clarke.
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Remembrance Day and the Bowen Island Legion LEFT: David Wrinch stands beside the Cenotaph in silence while students learn their history. Meribeth Deen, photo
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For five years now, David Wrinch has carried out a role that he sees as being a true honour: taking students to the cenotaph in Snug Cove to talk about history, war and why it is important to remember. “If you look at it as a percentage, a large number of Bowen Islanders died serving in the war,” says Wrinch. “Five young men died, when the population of this place was 100. What would that look like today?” Wrinch says he has always tried to emphasize the horror of war to the young people he speaks with, in the hopes that it is something they do
not have to experience. Also, he wants them to know the purpose of the Legion, which existed to support veterans and their families. Wrinch says that although his father was a veteran, he never did participate in any Legion activities. “I think he just wanted to forget what he went through,” says Wrinch. “Still, participating in this organization
seemed like a good, worthwhile thing to do.” This year, in honour of past Legion president Nairn Knipe, the Legion has brought in a piper for the ceremonies. As they do every year, the Legion will be hosting lunch after the Remembrance Day Ceremony. Soups, salads and sandwiches are all welcome donations.
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Landmark or status quo? Supreme Court of Canada deems no place is sacred
Anton van Walraven at the surf club in Noordwijk on the North Sea. ANTON VAN WALRAVEN COLUMNIST
Just last week we were informed by the media that the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on a case involving the proposed Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort in Jumbo valley, an area the Ktunaxa Nation calls Qat’muk, located in the heart of the Purcell Mountains in south-eastern British Columbia. The media didn’t only inform, they fell
over one another with wild, almost victorious claims that the ‘Court has given the Green light to ski resort’, ‘Supreme Court approves B.C ski resort…’, when in fact the Court did nothing of the sort, it simply reviewed a case concerning the right to freedom of religion filed by the Ktunaxa First Nation. What the ruling exposed was the limited scope of religious freedom in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms for protection of sacred sites. It shows that the Charter is crafted on European constructs of religion resulting in an exclusion of what is important in Indigenous beliefs. Most Indigenous spiritual traditions see the natural world being intertwined with the spiritual one, and sacred sites are at the crux of that connection. In its ruling the Supreme Court concluded: ‘The state’s duty under s. 2 (a) is not to protect the object of beliefs or the spiritual focal point of worship, such as Grizzly Bear Spirit. Rather, the state’s duty is to protect everyone’s freedom to hold such beliefs and to manifest them in worship and practice or by teaching and dissemination.’ So according to the Court that means that if you hold a belief, or have the spiritual focus that involves something that is a physical thing or a natural area, you’re out of luck, there is no such thing as a “protected” sacred site in the view of Canada’s courts. The media’s exuberance was curious though, or maybe not so much. A CBC online story stated that, “the landmark decision paves the way for development….” But I question what it was about this decision that was
in any way new and counts as a landmark. Is it a landmark for colonialism? I thought Canada was on a path to reconciliation? In the midst of considering this news, I headed to the BICS gym to hear Wade Davis talk about ancient cultures around the world and why they matter. The so-called landmark decision on Qat’muk, seems to fit neatly with Davis’s stories about Europeans failing to recognize the value of world views other than their own. This failure has, time and time again, led to the de-humanization of non-Europeans and the willful destruction of cultures.
Davis sees culture as, “by definition a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive?” Davis sees culture as, “by definition a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive?” Our species becomes poorer as the answers to this question diminish. The answers to that question also impact the world around us - as Davis pointed out, the aboriginal world view that sees the role of humanity being to tend to the world and keep it as close to it was in the beginning as possible would never have put a human being on the moon - but it would have never brought us to this dangerous point of ecological catastrophe either. The Ktunaxa First Nation believe that the
spirit of the Grizzly Bear will disappear from Qat’muk if the mountain is developed. This is not a stretch of the imagination: developing the area equals Bye Bye to the Grizzly Bears in the valley, taking with them the Spirit of their Presence. It is absolutely sad to see the Court using language like ‘Crown land’, when in B.C. every nook and cranny remains un-ceded Indigenous territory. The only landmark in the decision was that the protection of Colonial interests are not only written into many of Canada’s older laws and regulations, but as we have found last week, also into a relatively recent piece of legislation being the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It needs to be considered that the same principle can be applied to colonial interests as well. In dismissing the idea of a “sacred site,” doesn’t that mean much loved and cherished places, such as Bowen Island’s cenotaph, are stripped of their value as well? I hope we all understand the wonderful option the Indigenous people have offered to the colonizers: you can stay as long as you respect the treaties. The Supreme Court didn’t deliver on this chance because it couldn’t due to this limitation in the Charter. It is now up to us to pressure our Government to make right what is wrong. I am positive we can! Anton van Walraven was transplanted to Bowen Island from the Netherlands too late in life to be healthy. He still dearly misses the bicycle he left behind.
Remembering the dead, remembering our wholeness ual, autonomous beings, but rather grow who we are in relationship to others in our present life and in relationship with those whom we have lost. Our brains, our nervous system, and even genetic make up exist with an imprint of those relationships. How we then see our selves becomes a patch work of intricate patterns partly made of the ways others have impacted our lives - so when we actively remember those who have died we touch part of ourselves and these imprints that are still very much alive in us. But this is complicated because people are and history is complicated - the
imprints left behind in a person can be both full of love and honor but also very traumatic and painful. Even more complicated is that these memories can be passed on even with out our awareness, effecting entire generations through historical trauma and abuse. With that in mind, the reminder of a traumatic relationship or event can be too overwhelming to face with out professional support- remembering can flood the nervous system and cause more harm. So when we actively remember the dead, we have an opportunity to again enliven the parts
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to our shared humanity. Life gets so very busy in my present life, I for one often forget this and I want to remember. Mary Coleman, MSW, RSW has a private therapy practice at the Birch Clinic on Bowen Island and at Docs on the Bay in Horseshoe Bay. She is also a palliative Social Worker with the Vancouver Coastal Health North Shore Palliative Care program and Canuck Place Children’s Hospice.
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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU MANAGING RESIDENTIAL WOOD SMOKE IN METRO VANCOUVER Metro Vancouver is seeking input on introducing a phased approach to regulating residential wood smoke emissions from indoor residential wood burning in the region. Metro Vancouver will be holding events in November and December 2017 for businesses, health experts, and members of the public to provide feedback about the proposals. 4 – 6 pm Thursday, November 16
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Bowen Island Municipality is seeking a one year temporary full-time (maternity leave) Parks and Environment Coordinator. The Parks and Environment Coordinator oversees operational activities associated with parks, trails, and beaches on Bowen Island and oversees and supervises labouring and horticultural tasks associated with the maintenance of streetscapes and minor maintenance duties associated with maintenance of Municipal buildings in Snug Cove and Municipal docks in Snug Cove. In addition to operational tasks, technical and administrative duties associated with the Parks and Environment Coordinator position are extensive and require a candidate with an environmental educational background, GIS proficiency, excellent communication skills and relevant work experience. The Parks and Environment Coordinator must be capable of exercising considerable independent judgement, action and initiative in performing the work. Bowen Island Municipality offer competitive rates, dependent on experience. Hours of work will normally be between 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday.
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