Mel Greif’s school is steeped in history. He engages his students in field trips, Confederation debates, simulations, an 1812 picnic and murder-mysteries based on local historic sites.
The arrival in 1862 of a ship full of single women eased the hearts of British Columbia’s lovesick bachelors — and lined the pockets of B.C.’s future premier.
Jennifer Moore Rattray is the chief operating officer at Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO). Jennifer served as executive director of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and was an award-winning television journalist. A proud member of Peepeekisis Cree Nation, she is one of the first Indigenous women to anchor the television news in Canada.
Book review:Weaving Modernist Art skilfully recounts the excitement around textile arts as a form of creative expression through the postwar years into the 1960s and the “fibre revolution” of the seventies.
