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A Skookum Language

Simple to learn yet surprisingly versatile, Chinook jargon was once the common tongue from southern Alaska to northern California. British Columbia Magazine, Summer 2008. Read More

Luxury Living Reborn

A Samuel Maclure mansion gets a new lease on life.
Boulevard, September/October 2005 Read More

Ancestral Ink

Rediscovered tattooing tools offer the Haida a chance to revive an ancient tradition.
Canadian Geographic, November/December 2002 Read More

Time Travellers

Alberta kids step back in time and discover the pleasures and hardships of prairie village life at the turn of the century. Canadian Living, June 1999 Read More

 
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