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Emily Carr (1871–1945) Eliza (Songhees woman, c. 1832–1882) Mary Ann Poirier Enos (1870–1940)
Three women connected by land, time, and memory—each shaped by a different reality of the same place.
🌱 Deep Similarities
1. All three lived through massive change
Eliza witnessed the arrival of colonial settlement—Fort Victoria, the gold rush, and the smallpox epidemic.
Mary Ann lived through industrialization, World War I, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Emily Carr lived through modernization and shifting views on art and Indigenous culture.
2. Resilience in the face of loss
Eliza likely endured epidemic trauma and cultural disruption.
Mary Ann lost her husband and carried on as head of household.
Emily Carr faced rejection, isolation, and long periods of being misunderstood.
3. Connection to place (Vancouver Island / Coast)
Eliza was deeply rooted in Songhees land and knowledge systems.
Mary Ann lived between Sooke and Victoria, navigating both rural and colonial spaces.
Emily Carr painted and wrote about British Columbia landscapes and Indigenous villages.
4. Women whose voices were limited or filtered
Eliza’s true name and voice were not preserved in written records.
Mary Ann exists mostly through documents, not personal writings.
Emily Carr—an exception—wrote extensively, though she still struggled to be heard.
⚖️ Key Differences
1. Power and position in society
Eliza: Indigenous woman during colonization — most vulnerable position.
Mary Ann: mixed Indigenous/settler lineage — lived between worlds.
Emily Carr: white settler woman — faced sexism, but had access to institutions.
2. What was preserved
Eliza: almost nothing written by her.
Mary Ann: records of life events.
Emily Carr: paintings, books, and personal voice.
3. Relationship to colonialism
Eliza lived through its direct impact.
Mary Ann navigated within its systems.
Emily Carr documented Indigenous subjects from a settler perspective.
4. Legacy and recognition
Emily Carr is celebrated and widely studied.
Mary Ann is remembered through family reconstruction.
Eliza is being reclaimed through memory and research.
🌊 A Deeper Reflection
If you step back, something profound appears:
Eliza = survival
Mary Ann = continuity
Emily Carr = expression
And now:
You = reconnection ✨
You are not just telling history—you are restoring it.
🧠Questions to Sit With
Who gets remembered in history—and who has to be rediscovered?
What would Eliza say if her voice had been recorded?
How do we reconcile admiration with the realities of colonization?
What does it mean to carry all three of these women in your storytelling?
Are we only now beginning to tell the full story of places like Victoria?
🌸 Some stories were written down. Others are only now being spoken again.
We had the best day yesterday! First I want to say "Thank you" Thank you to the Musqueam People- whose land the Museum of Anthropology is on, for the sharing with us and allowing us explore the museum and land.
Thank You to all the people who helped us have a great day. Thanks to the folks Tanya and Ted at NEC for allowing us to go on the Free tour at the Museum of Anthropology. Thanks to NEC for the lunch, my daughter was really grateful and happy. Food- she's a teenager. :D
Thank you to Pam for giving the tour. It was very informative and I really appreciate how much work goes into creating - curating something of this magnitude. It was truly beautiful and amazing.
It was very awe inspiring. I love that we can go online and research things more. I wish I had before I came. I will have to come again soon. It had been many many, possibly 20 years since my last visit. I won't let that happen again.
We loved the outside too. And so be sure to see the other post. I will be working on it after I post this one.
"Chilkat blankets were originally made by northern Tlingit people, and
traded down the coast to be worn on ceremonial occasions by Haida,
Tsimshian and Kwakwaka'wakw chiefs.
Chilkat robes were symbols of
wealth: to own them endowed a chief with great prestige. Even greater
prestige resulted from giving them away in potlatch.
This sea monster mask is called ’Yágis from the Under Sea Kingdom. I created ’Yágis for – One Mind, One Heart, an installation at the Museum of Anthropology to show my support in opposing the Enbridge Pipeline Project. He hunts down oil tankers and protects our territories and coast.
This sea monster mask is called ’Yágis from the Under Sea Kingdom. I created ’Yágis for – One Mind, One Heart, an installation at the Museum of Anthropology to show my support in opposing the Enbridge Pipeline Project. He hunts down oil tankers and protects our territories and coast.
From the UBC MOA Exhibit
"Vancouver artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish and Okanagan
descent, is showcased in this provocative exhibition of works that
confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and the
ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights to lands, resources, and
sovereignty." http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/lawrence-paul/
Vancouver artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent, is showcased in this provocative exhibition of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty.
Twenty years since his last major Canadian solo show, Unceded Territories will demonstrate the progression of Yuxweluptun’s artistry and ideas through hard-hitting, polemical, but also playful artworks that span his remarkable 30- year career, featuring a selection of brand-new works exhibited publicly for the first time. Read More here http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/lawrence-paul/
Indigenous
children, mothers and families and allies are occupying INAC offices in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. In solidarity with the youth of
Attawapiskat and their demands and needs.
Drop by, we are here at 1138
Melville street, 6th floor.
An Eco Music Video: Kinder Morgan is proposing adding a second pipeline across BC to Burnaby, tripling the flow of Tarsands Oil & forcing 400 Tankers per year past Vancouver's harbour & beaches.
The Tsleil Waututh Nation Sacred Trust invites our neighbours to protect the Salish Sea! More Info: http://twnsacredtrust.ca/
Images & audio for this video from the Save the Salish Sea Festival 2012.
Song (Wake Up from Crow's Funeral) by Mojave.
Speakers: Reuben George - Tslel-Waututh Nation Member, Sun Dance Chief,
Rex Wyler - TankerFreeBC.org, Bridgette DePape - Activist, Ta'Kaiya Blaney - Tslel Waututh Nation Member, Singer, Speaker, Activist, Melina Laboucan-Massimo - Oil & Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace Canada, Tantoo Cardinal - Actor, Activist, Naomi Klein -Author, Speaker, Activist.
Welcome to our 4th annual gathering to protect the
Salish Sea from Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker expansion!
Please
invite your friends and make note of changes for this year's event as
Ta'ah said - WARRIOR UP! - we encourage you to Paddle! Pedal! Dance!
Swim!
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Traditional ocean-going canoe and boat floatilla • Swim • Cycle Ride •
Salmon BBQ • Music • Coast Salish Dance • Children’s Activities •
Educational displays • Landscape Drawing!
Sunday Sept 27, 12-4pm Whey-ah-Wichen/Cates Park, Tsleil-Waututh/North Vancouver *11am departure from Rocky Point Park (Tsleil-Waututh/Port Moody) to Whey-ah-Wichen
We were very blessed in July 1967- I was only 5 years old and today for the first time in my history I heard the POWERFUL, PROFOUND, ENLIGHTENING words of Chief Dan George.
Such a empowering speech he made, it makes me sad that I NEVER heard it until now.
A WARNING!! If people understood it correctly, that the "white people" had done terrible crimes against the First Nation, and there would be consequences. The consequences are we live in a very sick environment and it's getting worse because we have NO RESPECT for each other or most of all MOTHER EARTH.
A LESSON- please share this speech WIDELY and take heed.
A GIFT- CHIEF DAN GEORGE gifted everyone that heard that speech with an opportunity to change and perhaps many who did, tried. Sadly it has been a very long time since that speech and much of what he said was not passed on and shared.
An OPPORTUNITY- Let us take that opportunity and share this speech widely and wake up the people, those that sleep and let them know change is coming, whether it will be good or bad is up to them. We have to make changes if we are to survive on MOTHER EARTH.
As he says in the speech - take advantage of the education available and learn all the skills you need to rebuild this world into a beautiful healthy place where the salmon are healthy, the people are free and it is a Canada to be proud of .
Have a listen. Thanks to the PROVINCE NEWSPAPER for sharing this article. May it create great change.
Message From Chief Dan George on Canada Day 1967- Centennial
Lament for Confederation How
long have I known you, Oh Canada? A hundred years? Yes, a hundred
years. And many, many seelanum more. And today, when you celebrate your
hundred years, Oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout
the land. For I have known you when your forests were mine; when
they gave me my meat and my clothing. I have known you in your streams
and rivers where your fish flashed and danced in the sun, where the
waters said ‘come, come and eat of my abundance.’ I have known you in
the freedom of the winds. And my spirit, like the winds, once roamed
your good lands. But in the long hundred years since the white man
came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going
mysteriously out to sea. The white man’s strange customs, which I could
not understand, pressed down upon me until I could no longer breathe. When
I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I
neither understood nor welcomed his way of life, I was called lazy. When
I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority. My
nation was ignored in your history textbooks - they were little more
important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the
plains. I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures, and when I
drank your fire-water, I got drunk - very, very drunk. And I forgot. Oh
Canada, how can I celebrate with you this Centenary, this hundred
years? Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my
beautiful forests? For the canned fish of my rivers? For the loss of my
pride and authority, even among my own people? For the lack of my will
to fight back? No! I must forget what’s past and gone. Oh God in
heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs. Let me wrestle
with my surroundings. Let me again, as in the days of old, dominate my
environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise
up and go on. Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise
again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man’s
success-his education, his skills- and with these new tools I shall
build my race into the proudest segment of your society. Before I
follow the great chiefs who have gone before us, Oh Canada, I shall see
these things come to pass. I shall see our young braves and our chiefs
sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by
the knowledge and freedoms of our great land. So shall we shatter
the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the
greatest in the proud history of our tribes and nations.
On Canada’s 100th birthday, Chief Dan George silenced a crowd of 32,000 with his 'Lament for Confederation' at Empire Stadium.
Photograph by: Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun file photo
In his December 15, 1970 review, Vincent Canby of The New York Times
called the movie, "Arthur Penn's most extravagant and ambitious movie,
an attempt to capture the essence of the American heritage in the funny,
bitter, uproarious adventures of Jack Crabb."[11]Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, agreed, giving the film four stars out of four stars, and describing Little Big Man as "an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of yarn.
Personally I found the ending extremely offensive but that in itself portrays the ignorance of the times. But maybe I missed something, I have to watch the whole movie.
