While there are a variety of performance videos or various musicians I have worked with over the last 30 years, the real goal of my site is to share the documentary films I have created which focus on aspects of Victoria BC's history. Please share as you see fit and feel free to reply or respond. My current project will be complete in the spring of 2016 and will be a biography of Arthur Currie during his 20 years in Victoria from 1894-1914. Thanks for watching!
i would have preferred adding pre-recorded music but youtube would not publish so I had to do my own. In hindsight, that is one part I would have done differently. Thanks for watching
What a great band, with so many fabulous songs. I love the guy filming just can't help but sing along! As a fan for 40+ years, still enjoy this band so much.
This was my first concert, I was five and a half at the time and remember this day well. We drove out from Nanaimo, left at 3 am. Apparently my parents saw David Suzuki drive into someone's car and then drive away lmao. It's awesome to see this again, I'll have to show my kids. Thanks for uploading this! One of my earliest childhood memories. 💚🌲
So glad you had the opportunity to relive that awesome memory. It definitely was a remarkable time and I was very glad to have the opportunity to have recorded it.
Thank you so much! This is the first time I have been able to revisit this incredible memory with the help of actual footage! Greenpeace conned me into leading the effort of getting the scaffolding, sound equipment, and a couple sound techs to and then back from the concert site on a flat-bed (which was supposed to be the stage before they moved the concert site to the black hole the day before) and a big cube van. At 1:23 in your video I saw the sound towers we built the night before! I'm pretty sure that is me kneeling on the deck of the rear tower. The entire protest was amazing, the concert was brilliant, and my memories of the small part I played are cherished. Thank you, thank you, thank you for keeping and sharing this record of the event!
This is really awesome and I’m so glad this film is reaching people that were involved, either directly or indirectly in the event. I even had someone at work approach me, saying they were at this concert as well. If you remember somebody standing on a stump videotaping the concert in the middle of all the people, that was me!
@@erictolman3417I really did enjoy the film, Arthur Currie was one of the most important persons in Canadian history! He should be on one the the currency denominations! And we should STILL be celebrating his life and contributions.
Interestingly enough, I didn’t own a video camera at the time and I borrowed one from my friend because I wanted to videotape the event. I remember it being a big black Sony video camera
Interesting, and sad legacy of Civil War history. Footnote to this story. Confederate Captain Henry Wirz, who oversaw Andersonville, would face trial after the war and was convicted on war crimes charges, duly executed by hanging.
And now they just need some way of dealing with the waste water, to this day these people are still flushing their toilets directly into the ocean. We were there last year, 2021 and it stinks so bad, takes your breath away . The locals will try and convince you that’s just what the ocean smells like when the tide goes out…been all over the world, never smelled anything like that. Victory is the arm pit of western Canada, everyone is trying to move out.
I have two tangential connections to Currie. First my Great Grandfather was a Sargent in the 5th Field pre WWI and second my doctor in the 60s' was a Dr. Bapty. He was about the right age to be the " good friend ". Thanks for the video.
Nowadays in Scotland which has similar conditions, filtration is done with Polyaluminium Chloride and sandbeds. The Polyaluminium Chloride clumps small particles together which drop to the bottom and the sandbeds filter out pretty much everything else, even a small plant can filter 1 million litres/day.
The Sooke aqueduct (a.k.a. Sooke flowline) was a popular hiking route in the '90s (I haven't been on it in 15 years when I was introducing it to my nephews). You would walk on top of the ~4 ft (1.220 m) O.D. diameter concrete pipe. In the mid-late 90's the CRD built wooden walkways alongside the pipe where the aqueduct crossed creeks (ravines) to improve hiker safety (with ladders at each side to ascend/descend to/from the top of the pipe onto the walkway, otherwise hikers would walk on the top of the pipe as they crossed the creeks - not for the feint of heart to be sure). My hiking companions and I would regularly hike up to the aqueduct via the Todd Creek Trail (an old logging road near the lower Sooke Pot Holes parking area), and walk it's length up to Leechtown (taking the Galloping Goose back to where we started). There's also a short distance access opposite the Barnes Station shelter (<175 m, though steep) on the Galloping Goose, near the 2nd parking lot, as well as other access points up and down the aqueduct. Don't know the condition of the aqueduct these days or whether the CRD has maintained the wooden walkways.
A year before she passed in 1999, a high school student was tasked with doing a life story of someone in the neighborhood for a socials project. The result was a near 2 hour audio cassette which was given to me over 20 years ago from Cary Tolman. I finally put it in digital form recently and felt this should be done for posterity
Is it true that a former recent Prime Minister had one of Art's retired Field Marshal's uniforms, on display, in his office. (And would, from time to time, 'slip into it'?)
𝗜𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲? On June 26, the UN marked the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The message of the Secretary-General for that day was, “We cannot allow the world’s drug problem to further shadow the lives of the tens of millions of people living through humanitarian crises. On this important day,” he suggested, “let us commit to lifting this shadow once and for all, and giving this issue the attention and action it deserves.” In my opinion, as long as people want to escape from life, and as long as drugs are so accessible, substance abuse and drug addiction will continue to plague humanity. Life has always been tough. These days, it is even tougher for many, if not most of us. Because drugs are so accessible these days, teenagers and young adults who used to “get away from it all” by drinking or smoking, now do it with drugs, and even hard drugs. It gives them a good high, disconnects their thoughts from the pitfalls of life, and allows them to feel relieved and happy, even if it is transitory and subsequently leads to deeper downs. Besides, drugs are good business. Too many people in top positions make too much money for the discussion about eliminating drug abuse to be relevant. By “top positions,” I am not talking about the addicts or the dealers. I am talking about policymakers in positions that pay top dollar, whose job is to decry the plague of drug and substance abuse, and do nothing but maintain their positions. Like many other top brass, they view their job definition not as a mission to help humanity, but as feeding the cash cow and milking it dry. In the case of drugs, the cow feeds on more addicts, and the milk is the bloated budgets that organizations for “preventing drug abuse” receive in order to perpetuate the problem while pretending to fight it. This is why, according to the UN’s own statistics, drug sales over the dark web nearly quadrupled between 2011-2020. If there were an intention to eliminate drug abuse, those who are at the top of the system would have long been fired. But since there is no such goal, those people are hailed as heroes and their budgets are bloated even more, to cope with the “escalating” crisis. If we want to truly deal with the issue of drug abuse, we first need to decide what we want to do with addicts. Do we want them to live, or do we want them to vanish? If it is the latter, authorities must provide them with proper conditions to live out their lives until they are gone. If we cannot convince people that there is more to life than escaping from it, we should at least enable them to escape life with dignity until they are gone. At the same time, we should make drugs inaccessible, as simple as that. That is, if we are willing to cull the well-paying jobs of those in charge of “fighting” against drug abuse. If we genuinely choose to eliminate drugs, we should eliminate access to them. This is the first step. Then, we should offer a substitute. Not everyone will want it, but we should nevertheless offer a substitute that can satisfy the need that pushes at least some of the people into drug abuse and other forms of escapism. The substitute that we should offer drug users is supportive human connections. Just as the veterans from Vietnam, many of whom were heavy drug users while in service, stopped once they returned to their families, we should offer the same feeling to current addicts. This feeling of family warmth, acceptance, and the knowledge that people care about you, is the ingredient that is being depleted from society at the fastest rate. And without confidence and a sense of security, people will be afraid to face life and will opt for escapism. Human connection is the only antidote to drug abuse. It does not cost a thing, it does not pay top dollar, it has very poor PR, but it works like a charm. Making people feel welcome and safe will make them hooked on life.
There’s a serious lack of referendums these days, and we have the technology to do it all the time now, unlike the old days where it would have been quite the expense and effort. At minimum we should have an annual confidence referendum so we can put these insanely corrupt politicians out to pasture every so often, as necessary to remind them who they are supposed to work as employees for.
King was Canada's first Minister of Labour, under Laurier. He was so proud of his relationship direct relationship with William Lyon Mackenzie, his namesake, and the "Mackenzie" of Mackenzie-Papineau. During his many years as Prime Minister, his rhetoric was to bring in social programs and labor reform, but he always had an excuse not to act on these (kind of like the Democrats, in the modern United States).
This was very good. R. P. Rithet who got involved at 12:05 also *owned* Albion Iron Works who suffered from the fire described just before, so it's fair to say he was highly motivated to see the water situation improve. The dude was among other things a major importer with an extensive private dock at Ogden point and warehouses along Wharf street (today the "Rithet complex" on Wharf, between Fort St and Bastion Square, bears his name). Prior the CPR arrival at Vancouver in 1887, mail, goods, and personal travel in and out of Victoria was via San Francisco, and the vast majority of ships visiting the Rithet docks were from there. So to say Rithet had San Francisco connections is a bit of an understatement.
Hi Eric, my name is Yue Fan. I truly need your dad’s book for my thesis. Could you let me know where I could find the book? By the way, I am in Calgary right now. Thanks!
Yes I am well aware, but did I not state it as such in the film? Byng oversaw the 4 divisions and Currie commanded the 1st of the 4 divisions. His contributions to Vimy were tactical using the creeping barrage to great effect. Tactics won the battle, hence, Currie figures significantly at Vimy
@@kegeshook1734 You are correct that without Byng's support and approval, Currie may not have had those opportunities to explore his tactical strategies. So many other figures like Haig and PM LLoyd George held him with very high regard so that kind of validation is worthy of note as well.
@@erictolman3417 I've only begun paying attention to Currie fairly recently. My personal connections and interests have been with the Second and Third Divisions.
