Dear editor:
I agree with the reader of last week who requested more coverage of our First Nations’ rich heritage in the North Shore News. (Margo Running, Friday, July 25.)
Just in case there is no follow-up forthcoming in your newspaper, I would like to try and direct that reader to the Legends of Vancouver: 100th Anniversary Edition by Pauline Johnson. The lost salmon run is an event which deserves to get publicity, as the fisheries department has promised us a big run this year.
By chance, I read in the July 26 edition of the Vancouver Sun under the best sellers’ book list that The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet is in print again. I happen to have the 1968 edition of this outstanding book.
Mrs. Blanchet with her five children explored in her small boat our coastal waters. In their travels they came across First Nations’ villages, some empty, others still used as housing by the locals when they had not gone away fishing. With great sensitivity she describes her discoveries.
Gudrun Honig-Shrimpton
West Vancouver
