tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.comments2023-03-31T03:19:27.723-07:00<strong>KEN MCGOOGAN</strong> <br> Canada, Scotland, Arctic Ken McGooganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01147707317978507921noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-48258902729895546562021-12-16T06:09:32.314-08:002021-12-16T06:09:32.314-08:00Finally. I am so pleased that this project seems t...Finally. I am so pleased that this project seems to be going ahead. It has been sshameful for far too long; my grandson Robert and I used to raise money on cruises in the Arctic to help with trhis cause. Great news indeed.Denis St-Ongehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13071275008590406045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-72869553021688269252021-12-12T05:51:44.283-08:002021-12-12T05:51:44.283-08:00Great so far! Cheers, TrishGreat so far! Cheers, TrishAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03222978765446496373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-9627358427961481842020-12-30T08:07:13.930-08:002020-12-30T08:07:13.930-08:00Great Insight. Thanks. Great Insight. Thanks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-17746945342378929702020-12-04T21:17:44.257-08:002020-12-04T21:17:44.257-08:00You've got me looking for the book in question...You've got me looking for the book in question, Ken. Great review. RossRoss Klattehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575099525712766340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-8792448016408345142019-04-29T13:58:46.370-07:002019-04-29T13:58:46.370-07:00Fantastic!! Congratulations to all involved.Fantastic!! Congratulations to all involved.Pat Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12873460079336136128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-33937443036199356202018-05-15T10:54:43.939-07:002018-05-15T10:54:43.939-07:00Fran: I remember you showing this piece of paper i...Fran: I remember you showing this piece of paper in 1973. Please send me your new email address. TimFuddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15652538292743633537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-21524644614755489872018-04-12T16:11:38.304-07:002018-04-12T16:11:38.304-07:00Thanks, Brian. As you know, her husband stayed lon...Thanks, Brian. As you know, her husband stayed longer . . . and hoped she would return and settle permanently. She ran into health problems. In any case, Flora fought the Loyalist fight and retreated to Canada, where she spent some months. What if she had stayed three years? Seven? To my mind, she fought and suffered and deserves to be recognized as a United Empire Loyalist. KenKen McGooganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01147707317978507921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-52590666960210438472018-04-12T15:49:55.582-07:002018-04-12T15:49:55.582-07:00Kudos for bringing attention to Flora's part i...Kudos for bringing attention to Flora's part in American Revolution. Although she was on side of Loyalists in order to have been a United Empire Loyalist she would have to have settled afterwards in Canada. She did not as after one winter at Fort Edward, present day Windsor, Nova Scotia, with husband who was Officer stationed there in 84th Regiment, she left and returned to Scotland.<br /><br />Brian McConnell, UE<br />President<br />Nova Scotia Branch<br />United Empire Loyalists' Association of CanadaBrian McConnell, UEhttp://www.brianmcconnell.info/loyalisthistoryofnovascotia/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-43205120633953504992018-03-23T10:33:17.363-07:002018-03-23T10:33:17.363-07:00Very sorry to hear this news. I never met Louie, b...Very sorry to hear this news. I never met Louie, but I know a lot of people who have and it's clear he made a big difference in people's lives. His contributions to Arctic History will be missed. I was truly looking forward to meeting him through Arctic Return. His contributions have no doubt shaped what Arctic Return has become, and I will always be thankful for that. Hughhdh607https://www.blogger.com/profile/13959818009867435641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-92108675269822653312017-12-01T04:50:33.540-08:002017-12-01T04:50:33.540-08:00Relic found Relic
The Musk Ox was a publication o...Relic found Relic<br /><br />The Musk Ox was a publication of the University of Saskatchewan. A Musk Ox is a truly remarkable animal. On Cornwallis Island we were told the size of the beast was reduced by circumstances and were smaller than average. <br /> <br />Malcolm Wilson and I and the entire crew would traverse and shout Monte Python routines to stay sane (?). Malcolm's accent (an expat Brit) was perfect.<br /><br />Fran MannsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220113473748406365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-74256894582294167352017-11-12T05:52:23.562-08:002017-11-12T05:52:23.562-08:00Hear hear! To the accurate acknowledgement of a &q...Hear hear! To the accurate acknowledgement of a "Celtic Canada."Jennifer Lesliehttp://www.jenniferleslie.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-70292421809902960842017-11-11T03:37:05.356-08:002017-11-11T03:37:05.356-08:00Response from Gillian Hutchinson
The Canadian His...Response from Gillian Hutchinson<br /><br />The Canadian History Museum exhibition now showing at Greenwich is presented from the point of view of Inuit for whom the Arctic is home, not the unexplored wilderness that it was for the ill-adapted British explorers. It is very exciting, immersive and thought-provoking and we have been privileged to have this preview before it opens in Gatineau in March.<br /><br />My book, written to accompany the Greenwich show, is written from a British perspective (I am not qualified to write with any authority about Inuit experience of the Arctic) but I absolutely do not regard Inuit with disdain. I believe I make it clear that successive British expeditions would not have survived without Inuit help, that they provided nearly all the information about the fate of the Erebus and Terror expedition, and that the ships would not have been found without Inuit saying where they were. My extremely compressed narrative is light on names but I must correct you – Tookoolito, Ebierbing (p 139) and Sammy Kogvik (p 161) are named. It is a total misreading that I “approve” of Dickens’ racist fiction – I most certainly do not. <br /><br />Anyway, I look forward to reading your new book Ken to find out about Inuit lives in far more detail. <br /><br />All the bestGillian Hutchinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02956465105336638725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-2371462156588905602017-09-05T04:23:51.785-07:002017-09-05T04:23:51.785-07:00Great report. This story is an important part of C...Great report. This story is an important part of Canada and Inuit history. It should be taught as part of history courses at all levels in our schools. -- Terry Hawkins<br />Terry Hawkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-58783155454274457132017-08-10T19:06:31.151-07:002017-08-10T19:06:31.151-07:00Good luck with all this Ken!Good luck with all this Ken!The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-62208898692064457862017-08-02T13:46:24.143-07:002017-08-02T13:46:24.143-07:00Hi,
I saw the BBC documentary and I enjoyed it a l...Hi,<br />I saw the BBC documentary and I enjoyed it a lot!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14684635170582543043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-52070369013089182632017-07-20T18:47:03.691-07:002017-07-20T18:47:03.691-07:00Modesty my eye! Tell us more!Modesty my eye! Tell us more!The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-41688203291733049512017-06-30T18:37:15.066-07:002017-06-30T18:37:15.066-07:00Celebrate all summer!Celebrate all summer!The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-56522958637298768722017-06-26T19:20:58.007-07:002017-06-26T19:20:58.007-07:00Have to admit I only recognized four of those name...Have to admit I only recognized four of those names.The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-37782206061799462802017-06-25T18:39:04.187-07:002017-06-25T18:39:04.187-07:00Good times!Good times!The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-35158632638678645402017-06-24T18:01:22.031-07:002017-06-24T18:01:22.031-07:00Must check that out.Must check that out.The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-22979778595155152682017-06-23T09:43:16.417-07:002017-06-23T09:43:16.417-07:00A good read, Ken. 50 Canadians should be required ...A good read, Ken. 50 Canadians should be required reading for students. And schools should buy the book, rather than just photocopying the pages they want! Grrrr.<br />Margie Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04899164875374546853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-26309253642403348222017-06-13T16:04:43.244-07:002017-06-13T16:04:43.244-07:00"The Bitch Sutherland," as I believe Pip..."The Bitch Sutherland," as I believe Piper Gunn called her in Margaret Laurence's Diviners (an excellent source for tales of both the settlers and the Metis they met up with - quelle surprise - at the Forks). As for monuments of our various settlers in western Canada, they are invariably gendered, incl these Selkirk folk, with father-and-son combo marching resolutely forward into the Unknown Future that awaits while Mother-and-babe combo tremble and quake, looking back on the auld sod as though, on second thought, to go back home. Ukrainian families are depicted exactly the same. BTW, while meandering around Scotland in 2012 in search of Scottish stories of the Selkirk Settlement on the Red, I found only one, in Kirkcudbright, the seat of the Selkirks; the plain granite post with explanatory plaque had been erected and paid for by the Manitoba Historical Society. You can imagine my satisfaction, then, at being invited to last year's Edinburgh Int'l Book Festival with my book The Seven Oaks Reader, to bring the story back to the Scots.Myrna Kostashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195437016852135899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-86193020312880889212017-06-10T01:15:09.516-07:002017-06-10T01:15:09.516-07:00I agree entirely with your comment. I live in Ork...I agree entirely with your comment. I live in Orkney and over the years there has been a huge increase in the number of cruise ships visiting and their size. Some have as many as 4000 passengers! Already this is changing the atmosphere of the islands and putting off other tourists. It is also doubtful how much the local community benefits from these cruise ships.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051456927031118955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-4522688708306619752017-06-05T19:06:57.114-07:002017-06-05T19:06:57.114-07:00I 've been thinking of Barra today. Very sad....I 've been thinking of Barra today. Very sad.The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901172445596111388.post-62627204633338761652017-05-29T18:58:44.806-07:002017-05-29T18:58:44.806-07:00I remember 'Hallaig'. I cited the poem wh...I remember 'Hallaig'. I cited the poem when talking about the clearances in one of my lectures.The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.com