ADAM OLSEN -- There is nothing exclusive about this canoe. Indeed, all are welcome to come aboard the canoe as long as you are paddling for the Kitlope
Last weekend we spent a few days in Bamfield. The family weekend on the west coast was a gift from my mom and Tex. It was nice to see my kids, niece and nephews away from their screens and on the dock fishing for piling perch and rock crab. The devices have a way of devouring us these days much the same way as the docks at the Brentwood Inn or Gilbert's Marina consumed the days of my childhood. It jumped off the rack! We stopped in at Bamfield's market on our way through to the Kingfisher Lodge. I also noticed Briony Penn's book " Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa'xaid ". So, I bought it as well. It's a quick read and the timing is apropos to my most recent work in the legislature around old-growth protection and industrial logging. The stories come from Xenakaisla elder Cecil Paul Sr. (Wa'xaid). They are a range of anecdotes and memories that Penn arranges in a beautiful illustration of the 20th century indigenous ...