Welcome to the official Blog – information site of The Chemainus Festival of Murals Society.
You can find our actual website at www.muraltown.com and reach us via comments from this site or at info@muraltown.com
Map with mural pictures at:
http://www.tourismchemainus.com/html/MapMural.html
http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/133017168.html Check it out
DID YOU KNOW?
Silver and Gold in Chemainus.
Specifics from the BC Government Website Ministry of Energy and Mines.
Report RGEN0100 page 2
The Lenora mine, worked between1898 and 1903 (inclusive) and in 1907, produced 321,886 grams of Gold , 8706,817 grams of silver and 3,226,034 kilogramas of copper from a total of 71,650 tonnes mined.
The Tyee mine was worked intermittently from 1901 to 1909 producing 762,553 grams of Gold, 13,725,069 grams of silver and 5,840,593 kilograms of copper from a total of 152,668 tonnes mined.
The Richard III mine produced, in three years between 1903 and 1907, 22,830 grams of Gold, 522,714 grams of silver and 113,604 kilograms of copper from a total of 4,903 tonnes of ore mined (miniral Policy data).
The three mines were amalgamated and operated intermittently between 1942 and 1952 as the Twin J. Min. From a total of 48,082 tonnes mined, the operation produced 63,730 grams of gold,
2,002,971 grams of silver, 364,755 kilograms of copper, 164,587 kilograms of lead, 1,926,11 kilograms of zinc and 4,546 kilograms of cadmium.
The property has undergone steady exploration by various companies from 1964 to present.
Based on mapping, geochemical and geophysical surveys, trenching and diamond drilling from 1967 to 1970, ore reserves were estimated at 317,485 tonnes grading 1.6 per cent copper,
4.11 grams per tone of gold, 140.54 grams per tonne silver, 0.65 per cent lead and 6.6 per cent zinc.
Isabel Askew Ghostly historic and directional stories – video links
http://www.chemainushotel.com/06/16/2011/Chemainus-Video-links
Want to be educated on Emily Carr?
Go here http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/EmilyCarr/en/about/legacy.php
Other links to teachers resources and more listed via
Skidegate Eagle Unveiling picture Gallery
https://picasaweb.google.com/Humanity.2000/20110423EmilyCarr2Eagle?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ3k0vf514CbBg#
Every individual who was educated in a North American university knows about Emily Carr. The Chemainus Festival of Murals Society firmly believes that the Emily Carr mural project will, in time, change the demographics of the Chemainus visitor.
http://www.muraltown.com/emily-carr.html
Emily, had a reverence and fascination for the First Nations peoples of the British Columbia coast.
As the most famous female artist of her time and a Canadian icon today, she has admirers in every country, all potential visitors to Chemainus. She was one of Canada’s foremost woman artists of her
day and during the last few years her fame has grown as the greatest and most loved BC artist.
The board is passionate about telling the Emily Carr story and her commitment to preserving First Nations art via her paintings, as most of you know, she is a world famous, female, BC Artist who lived on Vancouver Island. In fact, she was born in Victoria on December 13, 1871. In 1924, Carr visited the Chemainus Valley and painted Chemainus Bay, 1924-25.
One of our first mural artists, Paul Marcano, said it best he wrote: “Well, looks like that Emily Carr idea is going to unfold sooner than I thought. I get a pang of nostalgia for losing the exclusivity of the Chemainus historic theme, however 25 years has certainly covered the subject and this is a revitalizing concept in itself so I can see it is good evolution for the town. In some ways, it may be the next step in artistic appreciation, away from the ‘practical’ purpose of art as historical representation towards a finer more in depth appreciation of art for art sake. Emily Carr being a naturalist will add a nice bread basket of imagery for embedding the forest industry theme of the current Chemainus murals”.
Emily once said, “Indian people and their art touched me deeply”. Her work reflected her interest in First Nations culture, as well as the forest landscapes and skies of the British Columbia coast.
She was repeatedly told that the West Coast was not paintable and the forest was monotonous. She was fascinated by the First Nations villages and their totem poles. They revealed to her that these villages had an amazing, compelling and dramatic artistic achievement. They had, in effect, a great cultural heritage that was not appreciated or respected by the settler population of her day. She was very struck by the First Nations’ respect for nature, their sense of environment and living presences, that objects and animals all had a spirit that had to be respected.
In 1927, following an exhibit of 65 pieces of her works of art, the National Gallery in Ottawa started buying a number of her paintings. It was then that the world discovered Emily Carr for preserving the Indian Art and they realized that her work was a distinguished visual image of Western Canada – west coast art. At that stage, she was 57 years old, and she had struggled a good deal until that point. Emily was deeply moved by the work of the Group of Seven, whose works were similar to her own in its vivid interpretations of wilderness and landscape. Lawren Harris told her in 1928, “YOU ARE ONE OF US”, welcoming her into the ranks of Canada’s leading modernists. By the way:
The Festival of Mural board does not make any final commitments to mural projects until the funds have been raised.
Find a youtube video link here for Chemainus completed by VIU Students
Coastal Spirit Fund Cheque Presentation to the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society for
co sponsorship of the April 23 2011 - “Skidigate Eagle” installation on top of our Emily Carr # 2
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