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Lecture: Looking and Seeing – Visual Design in Photography
Speaker: Boomer Jerritt
Most images we make in photography seem to end their short lives with the overly worn "delete" button on the backs of our cameras. Why?
This entertaining 1.5 hr lecture and slide presentation explores the thought process and mechanics behind visual design and compositional techniques - why they work and why they sometimes fail.
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Agnes Deans Cameron
by Christine Dickinson
The first school in the Comox Valley opened on Mission Hill in 1871. The first teacher was S. F. Crawford, who divided his time between farming and being a schoolmaster. After 10 years, Crawford moved on to open the school on Denman Island.
Crawford's successor in 1882 was Agnes Deans Cameron, a young woman, who came with good recommendations, high ideals and strong opinions. She had been the first girl to graduate from Victoria High School, and was a fully qualified teacher at 16. At just 18 years old, Aggie Cameron already had two years of teaching behind her at the Angela College for girls, a private school in Victoria, run by the Church of England. Her new home was with the Robb family who lived at Comox Landing, and that meant each morning and afternoon she was faced with a 4 mile walk along the Estuary and over the rickety and wind swept Long Bridge which spanned the water before the Dyke Road was built. Tall and slender, her vigorous stride and uncommonly short hair caused some amusement for the K'ómoks people from the vantage of their village. She shared the joke as they greeted her each day.
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Donations
Please consider supporting the Courtenay and District Museum through a charitable donation. Your donation helps support programming, museum activities and long term operating of the Courtenay and District Museum. This is a great time of year to donate and receive a tax receipt.
You can donate online or by mail, details for both are available through the link below. Either way, we'll send acknowledgment and a receipt as soon as your donation is received.
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Back to Class
The Science & Nature Discovery Program exclusively for home-learners is back!
This exciting program is a fun, hands-on way for children to learn all about science and is designed to help parents meet BC's prescribed learning outcomes.
Registration is open for fall classes. This year, the museum is offering eight classes to accommodate the high enrollment demand. Priority is given to returning students and 40 spaces are already filled, so, if you're interested, contact us at the museum.
What's In A Membership?
Lots! News on lectures and events, fifteen percent discounts in the gift shop on non-consignment items, discounts on lectures and a chance to be involved with one of the most active regional museums in B.C.
Buying a membership supports heritage, education and activities. If you're not a member already, please join us today!
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New Kid on the Block
Gillian Miller started her position running the visitor services at the museum in June. She enjoys the daily variety of work that the position offers. Never before has she sewn eyes on a dinosaur outfit or fed live worms to an African Lung Fish!
Gillian's hometown is Brighton, England. She has been fortunate enough to have lived and worked in London, Vancouver, Washington DC, and Cape Cod. Gillian moved permanently to Vancouver in 1986 where she married and worked in credit card services for a major credit card company. Gillian has worked at numerous other occupations, everything from being a nanny, Montessori teacher, manager of the Chemainus Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Centre and working, marketing and sales at a winery in Cobble Hill. On Vancouver Island, Gillian has lived in Sooke, Chemainus, Courtenay and, a year ago, moved to her funky Royston home where she lives very happily with her Bascottie dog, Gertie. Gillian feels that the Comox Valley is the best place she has lived and loves working with all the dedicated staff at the museum.
Check out this video tour of the Capes Escape vacation rental created by Shawn Pigott and K. Bannerman, co-owners of the Cumberland media company, Fox & Bee.
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Before Television
"Before Television" is a newsletter feature that shares the Courtenay and District Museum collection with readers and highlights the ingenuity and creativity of people as they added beauty and personal style to items from their home and work life.
This painting of a blue heron is from an instruction booklet created by Rose Baikie (later Rose McKenzie) when she was a teacher in the Comox Valley. Rose carefully painted images of a dozen local birds and gathered facts about their habits to share with her students.
Rose (b. 1906 – d. 1979) spent her first years of teaching at the McGuigan School (Camp 3) in the 1920s. She also taught at Lazo School and Comox Elementary before marrying William Samuel McKenzie in 1927. Rose left teaching until 1957 when she returned and taught again for 13 years before her retirement.
Photo of the Month
CDM #p170-254
You can view more photos like this on our website. Click here to visit our holdings.
It's All There in Black and White
How does the Fall Fair of 1949 compare with today's Comox Valley Exhibition? Check out this advertisement from the Comox District Free Press of August 25, 1949 to count the ways!
Read this newspaper article from our archives
Museum Sponsors
Dogwood
Arbutus
Fir
Seedling
Lawrence Burns
D. Mobley
Museum Funding
The Courtenay and District Historical Society was registered as a nonprofit society in 1961 to preserve and interpret cultural and natural heritage of the Comox Valley. It has functioned as an independent society since that time. Funds are derived from the generous support of the City of Courtenay, British Columbia Arts Council, Comox Valley Regional District, British Columbia Gaming Branch, and from museum generated revenues and donations.
Proud sponsors of the Courtenay & District Museum:
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Blue Heron, CDM 998.236.1
