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Grandview Park Bicycle Polo Court on Flickr.
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Commercial Drive has always danced to it’s own beat, as evidenced by the world’s only purpose built bicycle polo court in the recently refurbished Grandview Park.
I bet you didn’t even know bicycle polo was a thing, did you.
Zorki 6 with Mike’s Jupiter 9. Not too shabby.
Gordon Grdina Trio in the August 2012 issue of Jazz Times Magazine on Flickr.
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Performing during the Offseason festival at the Railway Club. Gordon Grdina on Oud, Kenton Loewen on Drums, Tommy Babin (not in this shot) on Bass.
Featured in the article ‘Oud Swings’ in the August 2012 issue of Jazz Times Magazine
Komagata Maru Memorial on Flickr.
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Last week a new memorial in Harbour Green was dedicated to the Komagata Maru Incident, one of Canada’s more shameful moments in history.
In 1914, a ship (the Komagata Maru) arrived from India via Hong Kong, Shanghai and Yokohama, Japan carrying 356 Indian Nationals, mostly Sikhs, looking to settle in Canada. Canada invoked the then standing ‘continuous passage’ law which required immigrants to have travelled continuously from their home country to Canada, something not really possible at the time from India and China given the distances involved.
Interestingly, the immigration officer to first meet the ship in Vancouver was local hockey legend Fred “Cyclone” Taylor, the Wayne Gretzky of his day who, despite being the best paid hockey player in Canada at the time, worked as an immigration officer in the off season.
Eventually, only 20 passengers were admitted to Canada with the rest being sent back to India. Upon arrival in India, they were immediately detained by the British, 19 were killed in the Budge Budge riots, some were sent back to their villages and many were imprisoned until the first world war ended.
According to wikipedia, a plaque commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Kimagata Maru incident was placed ‘in Vancouver Harbour’ in 1994. I’ve not seen this and do not know if it remains or not.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komagata_Maru_incident
komagatamarujourney.ca/
Always the highlight of the day on Flickr.
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Evening walks with the dude. What the hell was I thinking, waiting 40 years to start these?
Has the Elephant Had Any Water? on Flickr.
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The Jazz Butcher always addresses the important issues facing the world.
Raindrops keep falling on my Jag… on Flickr.
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Detail of one of the aforementioned Jiggle of Jaguars.
Zorki 6, Jupiter 3 (50mm f/1.5). Probably about f/5.6.
A Real Ladies Man on Flickr.
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Chicks dig Trajan. They follow him everywhere. OK, this is Mom, Grandma and “Auntie” Carol out for a visit from the wilds of Alberta but, still.
It’s quite amazing but, another year or so and Trajan will already be taller than Auntie Carol. She’s always more than made up for her diminutive stature with her effervescent personality and salty tongue. ;-)
We’ve known the Simpson’s since I was not much older than Trajan is here. They’re like family you choose to have.
Old Growth Timber on Flickr.
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Old growth timber was once in such ready supply in BC that we used to build our roads out of it. Only a few patches remain, peeping out of holes in the asphalt that replaced it but, generally, in a pretty remarkable state of repair for 100+ years of use.
A Jiggle of Jaguars on Flickr.
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I believe that’s the correct term, like a herd of antelopes, a shrewdness of apes, a drove of asses or a murder of crows.
As seen outside the Fairview Pacific Rim Hotel on a rainy day last week.
Still mastering the art of figuring out where exactly the swinging lens of the Horizon is going to flare.
