"Carrall Street, when it was wood", about rare Bailey & Neelands photos at Vancouver Sun

"Carrall Street, when it was wood" (April 2, 2011)

This is an article by John Mackie about a couple of rare Bailey & Neelands photos he found in the Vancouver Sun's morgue. He quotes a BC historic photo expert by the name of David Mattison.

Looking for photos: Global BC Small Town Feature: Metlakatla, Sunday, June 5, 2011

In my capacity as the MemoryBC database administrator I received this e-mail from Kristi Gordon, meteorologist at Global BC soliciting photographs of Metlakatla, BC, for their small town feature on Sunday, June 5, 2011:

We are going to highlight Metlakatla in our Small Town BC feature this coming Sunday, June 5th on Global BC's Sunday Morning News. Would you mind passing the word on? I could only find a few email addresses of people and business in the area.

Anyone is welcome to send in one photo each of the Metlakatla community and area to this email address: weekendnews@globaltv.com. We will show these photos on TV during our show! (Please do not send any pictures to my personal address.)

Here is a link to for more information about the Small Town features we do: http://www.globaltvbc.com/Small+Town/3501876/story.html.

Extreme Symphony Sports, only in Victoria, BC

In what's being called a first, brave members of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra will take part in the first Victoria Extreme Symphony Sports event following the mountain bike JumpShip event on a barge in the Inner Harbour on June 10, 11 and 12, 2011. This is all in anticipation of a new program as part of Victoria Symphony Splash, details as yet to be released by organizers.

Ok, I made all that up, but to give you an idea of the possibilities I've concocted this artwork from a couple of items from the Microsoft Office clip art gallery.

Uploaded "Tell Tail Signs" to SoundCloud

I uploaded a gentle, ambient piece I called "Tell Tail Signs" (the misseplling is deliberate) to my SoundCloud account. It's just over 5 minutes long and should not give you a headache.

August 15, 2011: I deleted this track to make room for newer pieces.

Removed "This Is Out There Somewhere" from SoundCloud

May 6, 2011: You can now listen to "This Is Out There Somewhere" on SoundCloud. It's not what you think.

June 1, 2011: I removed "This Is Out There Somewhere" to make way for newer tracks.

Removed "A Duty to Behold" to SoundCloud

May 6, 2011: I like to think of this one, "A Duty to Behold", as an excerpt from a larger, symphonic piece that I will one day assemble from all my other symphonic-like tracks.

June 1, 2011: I removed "A Duty to Behold" to make way for newer tracks.

Happy 25th anniversary Expo 86

May 2, 2011 marks the 25th opening day anniversary of Expo 86, the little-big international exposition that changed the face of Vancouver. I have fond memories of wandering the grounds, not in a daze except for the time I came down with food poisoning, visiting every pavilion I could and filling my Expo 86 Passport with as many pavilion stamps as I could.

What memories do you have of Expo 86?

Will any public body be commemorating the 25th anniversary of Expo 86? People I used to work with may recall that I unsuccessfully tried promoting a virtual exhibit for the 20th anniversary. All the surviving archival records of the Expo 86 Corporation are preserved by the BC Archive at the Royal BC Museum. You can view the description of those records.