The point is named after Francis Brockton, the senior engineer aboard the HMS Plumper, a Royal Navy survey sloop commanded by Captain George Henry Richards. A plumper is something that plunges abruptly into water. Brockton discovered coal nearby, and Richards named the waters Coal Harbour. From the early 1870s until Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery opened […]
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Black Earth – the Holocaust as History and Warning – Timothy Snyder (2015)
We tend to establish an internal narrative of events to facilitate what we believe is our understanding of things. Almost invariably it is not only complete but also hermetic, and exclusionary of information that would require revision of the internal narrative. We tend to view the Second World War, in the European theatre, as a […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Kadrush Radogoshi, Distinguished Kosovar Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
I met Kadrush Radogoshi through my own literary activities in Edmonton, and we have spent time together in his acquainting me of his biography, oeuvre, stylistic dispositions and preferences, the awards for and reviews of his work, and the history of his selection of Edmonton as the Canadian city to reside in. Mr. Radogoshi’s work […]