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Haisla Bridge Replacement Project Girder Launching Ceremony

The Haisla Bridge Replacement Project, Girder Launching Ceremony, June 14. 2022. Pylons anchored deep into bedrock of the Kitimat River will soon be mounted with giant steel girders. The new bridge project is expected to be completed by spring, 2023, then the old bridge from 1953 with its familiar humming vibration on the old deck will be demolished.

 

June 15, 2022 Robin Rowland
bridge, Kitimat, LNG, Photoblog, Photography, Sony RX10iiiHaisla Boulevard , Haisla Bridge , Kitimat , river

“It’s not a costume” Racism protest in Kitimat

On Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, a student at Kitimat’s Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School wore traditional regalia for picture day. At that time a teacher allegedly asked the student “What’s the costume.” This led to a protest against racism the following day by indigenous and non-indigenous students supported by members of the Haisla Nation and Kitimat residents on Nov. 2.

Members of the Haisla Nation and supporters from Kitimat gathered at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 (Robin Rowland)

Greg Smith and his grandson Greg Bolton at the protest. (Robin Rowland)

Students, many in regalia, supported the protest. (Robin Rowland)

Students supported the protest. (Robin Rowland)

Shelley Bolton of the Haisla Braid Singers led the group in protest songs. (Robin Rowland)

Elders and residential school survivors joined the protest despite the poor weather. (Robin Rowland)

Video: Story I shot for Global News.‘It’s not a costume’: B.C. teacher’s alleged mocking of student’s Indigenous regalia sparks protest

Statement from the Haisla Nation (on the school board site)
 

Statement from Coast Mountain School District 82

November 3, 2021 Robin Rowland
demonstration, Haisla Nation, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, news photo, Photoblog, Photography, protest, Reconciliation, Sony RX10iii, video, Visual journalismFirst Nations , Haisla Braid Singers , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School , protest , regalia

Bald eagle at Minette Bay

Look closely and you will see the white head of a bald eagle perched in a tree at MK Bay, taken from MK Bay West Park.

October 13, 2021 Robin Rowland
autumn, BC, birds, black and white, eagle, Kitimat, Photoblogbald eagle , Bird , Bird photography , birds , Black-and-white , British Columbia , clouds , Douglas Channel , Kitimat , Minette Bay

Portraits of Northwestern Crows

The weather in Kitimat has been awful during most of the fall, cold, windy, rainy, foggy and generally miserable. Not unexpected in a La Nina year.
I went down to Kitamaat Village for the monthly bird count in a rain squall. So the visibility was pretty bad. As I was about to leave, a half dozen northwestern crows landed right beside me, in the pouring rain and stayed long enough for me to shoot their portraits.

October 11, 2021 Robin Rowland
BC, birds, crow, Douglas Channel, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, nature, Photoblog, Sony RX10iiiBird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , crow , Douglas Channel , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , rain , storm , Weather

People of the Snow Truth and Reconciliation in Kitimat

Members of the Haisla Nation and people of Kitimat braved an Environment Canada storm warning with heavy rain and wind on September 30, 2021 to mark The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Haisla elder Marilyn Furlan opened the proceedings with a prayer. (Robin Rowland)

 

Most participants wore orange to mark the other name, Orange Shirt Day. It marks the time an indigenous girl had an orange shirt taken away in a residential school. (Robin Rowland)

Marking Truth and Reconciliation in a rain storm. (Robin Rowland)

Sunny Stewart-Pollard helped organize the reconciliation event hosted by volunteers from the Haisla Nation and members of the Kitimat community. (Robin Rowland)

 

Barb Campbell watches the event. (Robin Rowland)

The tables with decorations and gifts represent all the holidays that children in residential schools missed. (Robin Rowland)

 

 

A boy waves a Truth and Reconciliation flag. (Robin Rowland)

Watching in the rain. Kitimat Counsellor Terry Marleau (second from right) and Mayor Phil Germuth (far right) (Robin Rowland)

Shelley Irene Bolton drums as she leads the Haisla Braid drummers and dancers. (Robin Rowland)

The sun did come out briefly for the Haisla Braid dancers and drummers. (Robin Rowland)

Three flocks of geese flew over the ceremony, the first and largest flock are snow geese, followed by a small group of Canada geese and then more snow geese.(Robin Rowland)

 

Geese fly over the ceremony. (Robin Rowland)

Musician and artist Arthur Renwick closed off the event with his own songs. (Robin Rowland)

 

 

October 1, 2021 Robin Rowland
autumn, BC, Canada, ceremony, Haisla Nation, Photoblog, Photography, Photojournalism, Reconciliation, Sony RX10iiiBritish Columbia , ceremony , dance , drumming , First Nations , geese , Haisla Nation , holiday , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , orange shirt , rain , storm

Remembering my visit to Florence, Oregon, which inspired the novel Dune

Remembering my visit to Florence, Oregon, which inspired the novel Dune

The sun sets over the Dunes of Florence, Oregon, August. 1980. (Robin Rowland)

It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune.

That’s me at the beach in Florence, Oregon, in 1980.

Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I picked it off a drug store bookshelf probably in 1965.  It was sometime later that I read someplace that it was Florence that first inspired Frank Herbert to write about ecology when he originally visited back in 1953 when he was trying to write an article about a US Forest Service project to use dune grass to keep the sand in check. After all that research, as Herbert said in the collection of his essays, Frank Herbert, the Maker of Dune (1987): “Before long I had far too much for an article and far too much for a short story.. But I had an enormous amount of data, with angles shooting off at angles  to gather more.” The result, of course, was the blockbuster novel, then more novels, then spinoffs by his son, a movie concept that was never made, an awful movie that was made, a pretty good miniseries and a new movie that we hope to see this Christmas (if there are movies in theatres).

That trip has been a wonderful memory for years, so to mark the anniversary, I found some of the old slides, taken on Kodak Ectachrome, with my old Minolta SRT101 and scanned them. For a some where the colour did not survive four decades, I converted to black and white.

Sand dunes and grass at Florence, Oregon, August 1980. You can see a family building a sandcastle in the distance along the shore. (Robin Rowland)

That amazing sandcastle on the beach at Florence, Oregon, that could be out of a Dune movie or perhaps a fantasy novel. (Robin Rowland)

Sand dunes and grass at Florence, Oregon. (Robin Rowland)

Sand dunes are like waves in a large body of water; they are just slower. (Frank Herbert, “The Sparks Have Flown” in Frank Herbert The Maker of Dune).

Dunes and dune grass at Florence, Oregon, August 1980. (Robin Rowland)

Seagulls over the Pacific Ocean, the dunes and grass at Florence, Oregon, August, 1980. (Robin Rowland)

A wider view of the Oregon coast and ocean surf. (Robin Rowland)

Ocean surf on the nearby Oregon coast. (Robin Rowland)

Ocean surf. (Robin Rowland)

 

 

August 7, 2020 Robin Rowland
birds, black and white, Ectachrome, Fantasy, gull, landscape, Minolta SRT101, nature, ocean, Photoblog, Photography, seascape, sunset, United StatesDune , Florence , landscape , ocean , Oregon , Science fiction , seascape , sunset

Fall colors on Thanksgiving

Fall colours reflected on Minette Bay on still waters at low tide. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2019 Robin Rowland
BC, fall, forest, Kitimat, Photoblog, Sony RX10iiiautumn , British Columbia , fall colors , forest , Kitimat , Minette Bay , reflection
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