The item is a black and white photograph depicting the upper front and roof of an old white barn.
The item is a photograph depicting a front view of an old white barn with a rainbow painted on the front.
The item is a photograph depicting a front and side view of an old white barn with a rainbow painted on the front. The photograph is taken from a field.
The item is a closeup black and white photograph depicting the front of an old white barn with a rainbow painted on the front.
The item is a closeup black and white photograph depicting the front and side of an old white barn.
The item is a 35 mm photograph negative of an aged white and blue trimmed house in Prince George. Address is unknown.
Snow covered trees [ACC hike?]
Frontal detail of <i>Begonia</i> in flower
File consists of a publication by Phylis Bowman entitled "Whistling Through the West".
Shadows on a snowbank
Two birds on snow laden branches
Gray Jay Perisoreus canadensis
File contents relate to: Mine Maintenance Issues, Cassiar Mine - operation and administration, Personnel / Human Resources. Document type(s) include: report. Notes: budget for projects.
File consists of issues of the literary periodical entitled "Whetstone".
Audio recording consists of Bridget Moran reading chapter excerpts from her manuscript “Where Words Come Sweet” [later title of manuscript is “The Horizontal Land” which tells the tale of the Doonan family, Kate who Bridget notes “developed as a volatile woman, quick to anger, quick to tears” and her husband Charlie, a “classic quiet Irishman, in fact, rather like my own father” and their children who emigrate to the South Saskatchewan River country in September 1924. As Moran describes in a letter “in short, my novel is a rather light-hearted, hopefully, authentic look at the Saskatchewan of 1924. I was at pains to avoid the dust storm-grasshopper-flat terrain syndrome, and instead to portray the beauty of south Saskatchewan as I knew it, the wonderful blend of ethnic groups, and the richness in character of the people who have lived there.”
Audiocassette Summary
Side 1
Title: Where Words Come Sweet #1
Scope and Content: Bridget Moran reads a chapter from her story entitled “Where Words Come Sweet”. The account of the Doonan family – Charlie and Kate and their children living in the pre-Depression era on the Canadian Prairies
- Kate immerses herself in the Catholic church and its rituals
- Priest Father Boncoeur talks about generosity of those who donate to the Church
- Charlie has difficulty with the Church asking for money same as in Ireland and leaves the Church because of it;
- Conflict between Charlie & Kate regarding religion
- Prairie winter blizzard described
- End of chapter
In this audio segment Bridget reads excerpt from Chapter 17 “Hail Mary, Full of Grace” which provides the account of Father Duroc who Bridget notes in the chapter synopsis “reads out the contributors and the contributions to the church, leading to war in the Doonan household.” And of Kate’s immersion in the Catholic faith and its rituals
Side 2
Title: Where Winds Come Sweet #2
Scope & Content: Bridget Moran explains that the inspiration for the title of the manuscript, Where Winds Come Sweet was derived from a poem by Pauline Johnson – Harvest Time. Bridget proceeds to read the poem. Then Bridget describes the main characters and provides a brief synopsis: The story of an Irish Catholic family, the Doonans, who came from Ireland, originally to Ontario and then to the South Saskatchewan River country in 1924. Bridget describes the characters: Kate & Charlie Doonan, and their kids: Kevin, Patty, Mick, Bridie, Mary, and J.T. She also describes two other characters Barney and Gladys Mullins– caretakers. Bridget reads a version of the chapter “The Teacher Cometh” – noted on audio recording as Chapter 7 [in a later version of this manuscript from November 1981 this chapter is Chapter 14]. The chapter describes the coming of a school teacher Miss Doris Sutton who makes life difficult for the residents – specifically the women folk as the men in the community come to be enamoured with her. This chapter describes how Kate overcomes her dislike for the teacher Miss Sutton, how she spends a weekend with the Doonans and how they become friends.
Bridget then provides a synopsis of another chapter that she entitles on the recording as “Unholy Deadlock” In a later version of the manuscript from November 1981 this chapter is entitled “Give Us This Day” Chapter 16 and describes how Father Duroc arrives in the community in January 1925 and stays with the French Canadian family the Bouchard’s]
In the next audio segment Bridget reads excerpt from Chapter 17 “Hail Mary, Full of Grace” which provides the account of Father Duroc who Bridget notes in the chapter synopsis “reads out the contributors and the contributions to the church, leading to war in the Doonan household.”
File consists of a manuscript for "Where Winds Come Sweet" by Bridget Moran (Chapters 12-23).
File consists of:
- Letter to Bridget Moran from Catherine Bush, Editorial Dept. for Macmillan of Canada re: rejection to publish (Dec. 30, 1981)
- Copy of letter to Bridget Moran from Marilyn Hancock, Editorial Assistant for Western Producer Prairie Books re: rejection to publish (Oct. 2, 1981)
- Copy of letter to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Regina, Sask.) from Bridget Moran re: request to consider chapter from "Where Winds Come Sweet" entitled "Joy to the World" (Nov. 2, 1981)
- Synopsis of "Where Winds Come Sweet"
- "The Story About the Story" by Bridget Moran, re: "Where Winds Come Sweet"
- Manuscript: "Where Winds Come Sweet" by Bridget Moran (Chapters 1-11).
Photograph depicts a jut of treed land in the Kettle river.
Trip to England [Devon, Plymouth, Cornwall]
House and dock on shore, Northern British Columbia
Little wooden dock on Hudson Bay
Young boy sanding on a fence post with barn in background
Mountain range
Prince George, B.C.
Drying of towels in the sun
File consists of drafts of unpublished children's book by Fawcett entitled "When Daddy Was A Little Boy".
Photograph depicts a wheelbarrow purchased in 1969, secondhand.
Photograph depicts a wheelbarrow purchased in 1969, secondhand.
Photograph depicts a wheelbarrow purchased in 1969, secondhand.
Photograph depicts the Wheatsheaf Inn "pub" on the way to Cedar-by-the-Sea from Nanaimo, B.C.
File consists of What's New at the "U" composites.
Frontal detail of <i>Taraxacum officinale</i> in fruit senescence
Includes press clippings, plotting notes, book reviews, book sticker for "Bolen Books Children's Book Prize Finalist" and related correspondence.
Scotland trip
Northern British Columbia
Log debris
File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from What Magazine. Includes a letter to Brian Fawcett from Jason Sherman, Editor, of What Magazine, regarding an article Brian written in the Globe and Mail. Letter dated January 20, 1986.
File consists of notes and the text of a speech given by Weller titled "What is National Health Insurance?", which was delivered at the 8th Annual Arrowhead Conference on Aging in Duluth on 27 August, 1985.
Bee on a flower head
Leaves and feathers on the forest floor
File contents relate to: Asbestos. Document type(s) include: pamphlet.
Warf construction visible in foreground. Background consists of a few built structures and several tents, location unidentified.
Photograph depicts a view from above, looking down on a wharf with water and treed hillsides in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "wharf at Sicamous".
Photograph depicts a wharf at Sechelt village on the Sechelt Peninsula. The view is looking southeast towards Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a wharf at Lang Bay, 14 miles southeast of Powell River. In fair repair, now used only by an oil company to pump in oil to a storage depot behind the camera.