Tag: ray aldred

Reckoning with the Doctrine of Discovery

Vancouverites will have several opportunities to grapple with the Doctrine of Discovery and related issues over the next couple of months. Sarah Augustine Sarah Augustine will address the matter directly as the second speaker in the Taking Action! speaker series,…

The day I stopped driving by

In Allan Twigg’s book Aboriginality, he tells of a meeting between three sovereigns – a king and two queens – that never happened. It was missed by inches. The year was 1939. The place, Vancouver. The occasion, England’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s…