Friday, July 10, 2015

Part I: Hard Rock Cafe @ 30.96 Hastings Mike Ma Metalworks Forum


'Baubles, Bangles, and Beads' seemed like an apt title for this Post, but it's best to let Mike do the talking and walking us through his, our, craft:

Art of Enamelling by Linda Darty


Pauline Warg basic jewelry enameling Video


Lexi Erickson Gallery





 
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Bernd Munsteiner  May 20, 2015


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March 25, 2015  
      Metalworks-purchase of the Lapidary Jewelry Artist digital magazine for Metalworks class..

Dear all,

  it's my first foray into purchase of a digital magazine (the price was right and we saved on International postage-further savings)..maybe an old dog can learn new tricks..we'll see how we can interpret this magazine into opportunities in our classes..will need appropriate software to extra/alter images from the mag.. currently using  Pages like the Microsoft Word)..but if anyone else has thoughts on other software programs ..please let me know..its time for me to enter computer / design..time is priceless and opportunities arise in simplicity.. it..can't hurt ..maybe

cheers

  
.....accumulating scanned copies of clip art/books on heraldic shields/ornamentals from the inter-librarian system..already exceeded my limits..but sent this Hajime Ouchi  example of cover of book...also check out black/white clip art on web/images google search..i like the dover publications on designs they come with CD rom so you can capture images for use...my most recent book was the Big Book of Graphic Designs and Devices by Typony Inc and covers a broad range of choices( a Dover publication)..lotsa choices for etching and pattern selections here....scanning the Designs from pre-colombian mexico ..nice thing i can get 2  pages onto 1 sheet so not so much work...will bring in the sample designs when class begins again..soon before i get too poetic..

cheery less but eventually more expectant

..when bleary skies turn to balmy contentment

mike

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 Pauline Warg

Pauline Warg Video Making Metal Beads


Pauline Warg basic jewelry enameling Video


Blow Torch Fired Enamelling needs only your imagination
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Elizabeth Olver,    Jewelry Design. The Artisan's Reference

Vancouver Public Library - Call # 739.27 O52je

Enamelling
Enamel is a form of glass, and enamelling is the process whereby this glass is fused to metal by heating to create areas of colour.  The colour of enamel can range from primaries to pastels; it can be opaque, translucent, or transparent, and can have a gloss or matte finish.  Despite its relative fragility, enamelling is an exciting art; the different techniques, colours, levels of opacity, and finishes possible with this process can produce unique effects that will enhance jewelry forms significantly. It is a time-consuming and labour-intensive technique, however, and requires patience and skill - E. Olver


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Dear All,

--attachment of small sampling of this text on colouration in metals-formulae book-374 pages..FYI...quite extensive and monumental in scope..

will send a small studio pamphlet by Charles Lewton-Brain..that's a lot simpler to grasp in next email..

cheers

mike
 


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 March 31, 2015
      Metalworks - pamphlet of metal patina's for small studio shop/work  

--Dear all,

 small pamphlet on metal colouring-patinas

 cheers

 mike

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 March 31, 2015
   Metalworks-4 books on colouring on metal

 --Dear all,

recently looking at 4 books on metal colouring the first is the bible of the industry ..an older text which is pedantic voluminous in content but slightly overwhelmingly  too much data for us--The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals by Hughes and Rowe) even the title of this book sounds ominous but if you have dedication and lotsa youth time, a book keeper...the second book is Patina by Matthew Runfola..this is well designed. informative and pleasing to read through..the third book is Colour on Metal by Tim McCreight and Nicole Bsullak and features the works of 50 artists with pics of their work and a brief write p on them..and lastly the 4th book is called the Art of Enamelling by Linda Darty and like the latter book is pleasing to read...i will try and send the first cover and the back covers of these books to you but having some problems so bear with me...might send separately over the next little while..

cheers

 mike  



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April 24th, 2015
     Metalworks Palko

 Dear all.

started looking at enamelling and came up with a website that had astounding enamel works and to equally learn that these artist live in Canada in the far reaches of a small town of Brockville Ontario .. its where i have my fondest memories after working on the farm  and after a hard days work going for a walk barefoot along the quiet streets with short blue jean cut-offs and bare chested, catching the glimmer of sunlight through the wafted tree branches creating shimmering shadows of dark/light interplay...after a hard day of leisure jumping into the clear waters of a stone quarry and returning later to work on the farm..fond memories of the cottage on the saint lawrence river.. fishing and catching the evening air ...life was so simple and pure..

cheers

mike

ps   check this out

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May 14, 2015
   Free Saturday May Demo - Torch Fired Enamel

Dear all,
a site on torch firing..add colour to your work..check out Eugenia Chan's new enamelling cradle with handle and spatula attachment from Rio Grande  and/or youtube her demo of this tools applications ..found a new website that has some useful tips/tricks/designs quite germane to our Metalworks forum...check out   Musings of a metalsmith on google..you'll have all the world of what we have tried to do in Metalworks in that grain of sand...enjoy and be grateful for what we have!!
  

cheers

mike

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May 16, 2015

   Metalworks-Designer Jewellery-the world's top artist by Claude Mazloum

dear all,

 rec'd a book via inter-library loan that is a synopsis attachment of some great  ideas in design ...detailing a summary short of each artist (like an abstract before  a technical research paper) ... works are shown few words exchanged..also a short on  designer diamond cuts/designer lapidary cuts by the infamous Bernd Munsteiner (faceted on the front and backs of gemstones that creates such unusual patterns ),,,there is a most beautiful section on Sculptor jewelery that once you see them you'll just want to carry out these experimental pieces yourself (didn't make pictures  of..enticing huh??) .. all in all a wonderful book that balances few words with much artistry..enjoy if you dare & lend it through the library .. i will have the book for a few more days and  return it through to Central library..     

  Contemporary Jewellers / Jewelry Designers / Goldsmiths / Metal Artists
listings A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

   here is another web site you might want to bookmark.. http:/www.metalcyberspace.com/exhibitions.htm this site categorizes galleries/museums/catalogues and more and has an- A-Z for  prominent artists with hypertext to check out their works/styles.. In the walks along Main Street..there was a jewelry shop- Sonya Picard which did not survive but has been replaced by Just Jewellery ... we walked in and we were really impressed with the diversity of styles..tribal/modern. I love the presentation of her jewellery pieces and the design of the shop..its spacious and inviting ... the shop is owned by Joanne who also has a shop in South Surrey ... she makes jewelry and they  often travel around the world picking up signature pieces. she asked me if i could  show her some of my cut stones..it appears it may be an outlet to sell your  cabochons to...her address for her shops are:

Just Jewellery 4360 Main Street

Just Jewellery #6-2970 King George blvd

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May 19, 2015
   Metalwerx Open House and other great events in Boston this week


enjoy this site and bookmark it for some grand info... MetalWerx,  School for Jewelry,  Metal Arts,  Community Studio

cheerios

mike
      
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May 20, 2015    Metalworks-Lapidary short on Facetted crystal by Munsteiner et.al.

--Dear all,

check out attachment on Bernd Munsteiners facetted crystal/carvings...google Atelier Munsteiner to see more representations of their works..this family has 3 generations and more in the lapidary arts from Idar Oberstein to the USA...


cheers everyone
 

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May 21, 2013
     Metalworks-Art Deco on works of Jean Despres


Dear all,

--attached works on a period of the Machine Age..enjoy...10 pages on some of his works...this book s basically a monograph on this artists body of works..his design notebook has been itemized as well in this publication..good use of geometric cuts of lapidary material here as well

cheers

mike


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 June 9, 2015
    Metalworks - Homeschooled jewelry classes

--Dear all,

 just returned from an arduous drive to Monterey area and San Francisco by car...now i know why its better to fly and Cruise...but after the trip came away with an appreciation of the innate beauty of our geological earth and definitely an appreciation to our farming community the people that work those long days to help us pursue our lives in the city... here is a web site that you can educate yourself in crafts..at your own time/leisure/pace ....www.craftonlineuniversity.com i also purchased a volume 1 and volume 2 mp4 file from Interweave on Enamelling by Pauline Warg  ... so ... so if you show up in silent protest i will be sitting there this Monday grieving with a smile with my computer to share this PDF and video to your flash drives and other assorted files...so drop in/drop off and drop out...get the files/dvd and enjoy..think of it like a laundry service...i will be reviewing my files/DVDs that i have on my computer in silence...i will be there from 09:00 AM to about 14:30 allowing for a lunch break at the vending machine of potato chips and a fizzling Fanta drink or maybe a Rootbeer (the one without alcohol although if it did, that would be a fun time )

cheers

mike -

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June 9, 2015
     Metalworks-Homeschooled jewelry classes

 --Dear all,

 torch enamelling (something that we saw when Eugenia Chan gave demo with us) Volumes 1 and 2 by Pauline Warg.. a beautiful book on constructed metal beads..she is a great teacher with lotsa experience and skills..and just as a teaser i will have with me a BBC -high defintion documentary of the life/history of Faberge...

cheers

mike

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June 15, 2015
     Metalworks-DVD on Enamelling

--Dear all,

www.nancylthamilton.com just created another video on torch enamelling as well (free on her site) ..little twist/here n' there..but what i like about her video feed was the concept torched enamel cabochons..a great way to set up disc/dapped domed enamel jewelry..hey no more lapidary work needed...add colour to your work and randomness..i am looking for someone that is selling their enamelling equipment if you know anyone that is selling out would be interested in buying some of it

cheers

mike

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 June 17, 2015
    Silversmithing

Dear all,

 ...a book"Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers, authored by Elizabeth Bone...the subject matter will be directed from her book: Married Metals Granulation Filagree you may have noticed that sometimes i send several attachments on the same subject matter..there is a reason for this ...some authors have a lock and key of presentation on a particular technique that will resonant better with different students...which one will you gravitate to ???

...the married metals topic from Elizabeth Bone (like our membership is married to a common craft/hobby narrative) is a compelling/do-able technique that just might be of interest to some of us ...
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Granulation strikes fear in me but others will be brave enough to attempt it and filagree is a tangle/web of discovery and beauty like a well seasoned group of people with a common goal.. .. to explore wire wrapping / weaved bracelets / necklaces using minimal equipment ... just another thought we could invite Eugenia Chan to talk about torch enamelling it would be possible to buy some enamels / cradles / rivet blocks from her,...just a thought experiment..regardless i will be there ...

cheers

mike -

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June 17, 2015
   Greetings-Etching


--Dear all,

 a little twist...etching Silver using Ferric nitrate.....and what about photo-etching...there's a store on Main street..an electronics store (two stores)..the larger of which sells a photo etching kit...as you enter the store it sits lonely hearted on the left side entry on top of a cabinet-also transformers for electro-plating sold here..although noticed most have sold (must be a trend..everyone's doing it) 

cheers

mike
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 June 18, 2015
    Creating Depth and Texture in Your Designs

Wubbers University

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June 24, 2015
    Metalworks-scanned Motifs-North American Indian and Art Nouveau designs-Dover Publications

--Dear all,

 have scanned and loaded onto laptop some free Royalty motifs approximately 900 plus clip art 

sincerely yours

mike

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June 30, 2015
Metalworks Celtic pattern and 1871 text on saw-filing..tooling for wavy bracelet & handy flux usage for Cu & Brass..

--Dear all,

 ...the Great Book of Celtic Patterns - approx. 192 pages in length...another book that i have on this weeks agenda is an 1871 textbook on the Art of Saw filing...what i find fascinating about the era of this books is in the use of language and clarity...i have quite a library of the old texts and enjoy them when i find time...so have fun...I have also purchased (not yet picked up ) the wavy bracelet making kit from www.potterusa.com check out the toolbar under videos and look for wavy bracelets (or was it squishy ??)..we have all the tooling to do these tasks as well ordered from Otto Frei the HMR 108/109 hammers and some Handy flux for non-ferrous metals ..really interested to see how well this flux works with brass/copper...Lexi Erickson uses this exclusively so it's probably darn good...if you'd like we could view the use of the HMR 108/109 hammers for the fluted bangle..i have this DVD on the laptop and all the tooling to accomplish the task..let's talk about our craft...the possible and not the impossible.....see ya'll hopefully ..soon..


Lexi Erickson Gallery


cheers

mike -

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 July 3, 2015
     Metalworks-another interesting book

--Dear All,

Uber Schmuck und Stein:  Zeitgenössische Schmuck-und Objektgestaltung ...will bring into our meeting along with a few other books of interest....

cheers

mike

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July 7, 2015
    Metalworks - HARDROCK CAFE  reminder  July 13th, Monday

--we had another wonderful sit down discussing our craft viewing several books that i had inter-library loaned from the Central Library ... uploaded to flash drives of  attendees Artisan Reference ebook and a Celtic design book...for the next meeting  decided to instead of the cold connection DVDs by Helen Driggs-Vol.1 and 2  (Art Jewellers co-editor) that i would provide a 1 hour DVD on forging by Sweetman..its a DVD about 1 hour in length......Mr.Sweetman makes up 2 bracelets and gives the proper mechanics of how to do it...Forging is another way to shape and form and is part n' parcel of the design vocabulary for your craft...at the next meeting i may show the short 18 minute DVD of fluted Braclet mechanics by Bill Fretz Vol 2 and show you the tooling which i have to accomplish this practice ..as well picked up the Wavy bracelet kit by www.potterusa.com and will show this as well...to get the heads up of the Wave bracelet video feed please go to the website www.potterusa.com and look for the toolbar for Videos..then hit the "the Wave Bracelet" tab and view..this video feed is 12 minutes in length...have fun this week..working on the cleaning up of the piano keys that i retrieved from the back lane alley .. have what i believe are ivory slabs and lead weight snubs and black (flat/sharp keys) possibly ebony wood products...decided to offer up some of these products to the attendees at the next HardRock Cafe meeting...the black ebony wood can be slabbed using a jewellers saw to whatever thickness (1-3 number jewellers saw blade??) and with silver would make a stirring piece of jewelry...just a thought...see you next week...bring your ideas about alternative ways to continue our craft i.e. other club venues, the Creative Jewellers Guild...does anyone have others..??... Mountain Gem / Capilano lapidary
cheerios for now

 Mike   

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July 9th, 2015
    Metalworks-Challenge for the day---

 --Dear all, while on the topic of enamelling..which we've talked about in the last few weeks and/or viewed on Pauline Wargs Volume 1/2-torch enamelling DVD..i submit a website that encapsulates the spirit of enamelling.. www.hunter-studios.com if any of you have a site of discovery or a website that you might want to share...reply and i will encapsulate and send to all ...a team effort perhaps.. 

I remain yours sincerely

mike - 

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July 13th, 2015    6:19pm
    Metalworks-next sit-down forging/hydraulic form wave bracelet & books

--re-reminder,
Forging bracelet DVD by Sweetman - 1 hour DVD and viewing of tools for and video feed on the Wave Bracelet indicated at www.potterusa.com...remember to bring your 8-16-32 Gig Flash Drives...will bring a few books for viewing as well..Oppi Untracht's ...Traditional Jewelry of India...Metal Techniques for Craftsman-Jewelry Concepts and Technology...

cheers

mike

 Oppi Untracht

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July 13, 2015   7:04pm
   Metalworks - Sinusoidal stakes..DVD on shell forming- www.ncblack.com

-Dear all,

sorry about my last web feed...the site noted should have been ... www.potterusa.com the check the tool bar-VIDEO- the Wave Bracelet and watch the 12 minute video posted ....i have picked up the tooling for this project and will bring in next week to show you,, also remind myself to give up some of my ivory/ebony piano material for mixed media jewelry projects that attendees can take home...
 
VIDEO- the Wave Bracelet
 cheers mike

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attached is a template of a sinusoidal stake you can carve out in wood / delrin plastic..if i have a piece of plastic (pre-cut can give you if i can find it,) will save you time..have to enlarge these pics though to-135%...  at Mountain Gems can make copies for you they did it for me last time...

cheers mike


July 13, 2015   7:08pm  Amendment
    Metalworks-Sinusoidal stakes..DVD on shell forming- www.ncblack.com

Dear all,

 have sent this file on several occasions in the past...but thought i would send again..have a DVD by Andrea Harvin-Kennington on Shell forming for Jewelry making which is about 1.5 hours long and with the attachment is a start to making your own sinusoidal stakes...for a list of tools that Andrea has created on her DVD go to  to her website... www.ncblack.com this is an exciting avenues for creating volume from flat metal..the possibilities are endless... please remember to bring your flash drives ...

cheers

mike

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July 14, 2015  7:41am

Metalworks-Symbol designs/transfer/print and etch-FeCl/ammonium persulphate and ferric nitrate & batteries

--Dear all,

go to the website... http://www.adinkra.org/ on the top of the webpage are 63 symbols..drop and drag to desktop... and then play with your printer to paste 1-12of these symbols upon a pdf sheet... no need to print but play... see if you can find a software program by interacting with others to see what they are using... for instance i use a program Picasa (free download) and there are many others ...i don't prefer any over any other just found the first one and it worked...ain't broke don't fixer..you can print your symbols onto PNP papers using a laser printer (press n' peel) and imprint these upon clean copper/brass metal and etch.. for the etching you can use ferric chloride (at electronic stores) ...ammonium perchlorate (RP electronics-2752 Rupert Street,Vancouve, BC 604-738-6722) and if you want to etch silver use Ferric Nitrate ( www.sciencecompany.com ) ..you might be able to source locally as well i'm sure.

The other mode of etching we had done in our class was Galv-etching and this is a process by which we apply an electromotive force (battery power/or battery charger) to a solution of kosher salt/water and /or copper sulphate which can be purchased at Home depot named as a fungicide, check label for purity and components-purer is better... for our next sit down class will bring in some tooling and odds and sods...nothing specific because i end up forgetting half of it...so play it again Sam... if any of you require a DVD feed on etching by Lexi Ericksen (Jewelry artist mag. submitter) bring your empty Flashdrives..

cheers

mike

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 July 14, 2015   8:50am
     Metalworks-next roundtable July 20-2015  Welcome to Beaducation!

Dear all,

here is a site that explores and demos by visual education...completed simple projects..think of it as filling in the blanks..simple projects leads to simple on simple...which when added upon creates organized chaos...perhaps quantum weirdness ... play dice anyone ??


cheerios

mike

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July 15, 2015  9:38pm

Metalworks-websites to explore ... easy format all in one place viewing..

Dear all,

enjoy these websites and look especially at the design/presentations :















will send in next few days websites of organization i.e. www.metalmuseum.org 

cheers

mike



July 15, 2015  9:53pm


Metalworks..GiJs Bakker and Jewelry

--Dear all,

couldn't help myself scanning this partial book for some of his quotes...


check out his website: www.gijsbakker.com

cheers

mike

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Mike Ma
Part I Hard Rock Cafe 30.96 Hastings  MetalWorks Forum; Torch Fired Enamelling; SilverSmithing  

Mike Ma
Part II Hard Rock Cafe 30.96 Hastings  Torch Fired Enamelling; Silversmithing; Blacksmithing

Mike Ma
Part VI Hard Rock Cafe @ 30.96 Hastings Mike Ma Metal Works Forum


Part III Hard Rock Cafe 30.96 Hastings   Books

Part IV  Hard Rock Cafe 30.96 Hastings  Days of Old, Days of Gold

Part V Hard Rock Cafe 30.96 Hastings  Annual Rock and Gem Show : Children Activities too

Friday, July 3, 2015

Canadian Pacific Railway Explorations and Surveys: Captain George Vancouver by the day 1792, 1793


This weekend's political plot: Tracing Captain George Vancouver's 1792 route into Google Earth


Canadian Pacific Railway Explorations and Surveys up to Jan, 1874 Sanford Fleming, Engineer and Chief
Engineer & Chief.
1 league = 3.45233834 miles

Canadian Pacific Railway Exploration and Surveys

Page 263 to 281 of 314 pages

Appendix N.


Extracts from the Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean in 1792 and 1793, by Captain George Vancouver, submitted fo the purpose of explaining the remarkable character of the Coast of British Columbia between latitude 51 degrees and 54 degrees - For a copy of Vancouver's Chart, see sheet No. 16.

June 27th, 1792. - Here the Chatham anchored, and Mr. Broughton pursued its eastern coast in his boat along the continental shore, leaving a branch leading to the northward, near the entrance of which are two islands and some rocks.  This arm of the sea continued a little to the northward of east, 6 leagues, to the latitude of 50 degrees 45 minutes, where its width increased to near a league, taking an irregular northerly direction to its final termination in latitude 51 degrees 1 minute, longitude 234 degrees 13 minutes. To this, after Capt. Knight of the Navy, Mr. Broughton gave the name of KNIGHT'S CANAL.  The shores of it, like most of those lately surveyed, are formed by high stupendous mountains rising almost perpendicularly from the water's edge.  The dissolving snow on the their summits produced many cataracts that fell with great impetuosity down their rugged, barren sides.  The fresh water that thus descended gave a pale white hue to the Canal, rendering its contents entirely fresh at the head, and drinkable for twenty miles below it.  This dreary region was not, however, destitute of inhabitants, as a village was discovered a few miles from its upper extremity, which seemed constructed like that described in Desolation-Sound for defense; the inhabitants were civil and friendly.

July 28th, - We had not been long under weigh before we were joined by the Chatham, and steered to the northward for the channel leading to Deep Sea Bluff, which I called FIFE'S PASSAGE.  AS we crossed the main arm the squally hazy weather permitted our seeing, but very imperfectly, the several islands and rocks that it contains.  About two o'clock in the afternoon we entered Fife's Passage, and found its eastern point (named by me, after Captain Duff of the Royal Navy, POINT DUFF), situate in latitude 50 degrees 48 minutes, longitude 233 degrees 10 minutes.  A small rocky islet lies off Point Duff covered in shrubs; and off the west point of this passage, named POINT GORDON, bearing N 83 degrees W. from Point Duff, are several white flat barren rocks lying at a little distance from the shore.  Although the tide appeared to be in our favour, we made so little progress in this inlet, that we were compelled to anchor at five in the afternoon not more than two miles within the entrance in twenty fathoms water, on the northern shore, near some small rocky islets.  The shores that now surrounded us were not very high, composed of rugged rocks, steep to the Sea, in the chasms and chinks of which a great number of stunted or dwarf pine trees were produced. *  *  *   *   *   *

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July 31st, - From Deep Sea Bluff, the shore of the main, across this small opening, took a direction N. 50 W. for about four miles; then extended N.N.E., about a league to a point, where the arm took a more easterly course, passing an island and several rocky islets, forming passages for boats only; whilst, to the westward of the island, the main channel was a mile in width, and not doubt entertained of our finding a greater depth of water than we required for the vessel.

We pursued the examination of this arm to its head in latitude 51 degrees longitude 233 degrees 46 minutes; when it terminated in a similar way to the many before described.  Its shores, about a mile apart, were composed of high, steep craggy mountains, whose summits were capped with snow; the lower cliffs though apparently destitute of soil, produced many pine trees, that seemed to draw all their nourishment out of the solid rock.  The water, near four leagues from its upper end, was of a very light chalky colour, and nearly fresh.  From its shores two small branches extended, one winding about four miles to the S. E. and S. W., the other about a league to the N. N. W.

August 1. - We kept the continental shore on board through a very intricate narrow branch that took a direction E. by N. for near two leagues, and then terminated as usual, at the base of a remarkable mountain, conspicuous for its irregular form, and its elevation above the rest of the hills in its neighbourhood.   This I have distinguished in my char by the name of MOUNT STEPHEN, in honour of Sir Philip Stephens of the Admiralty. It is situated in latitude 51 degrees 1 minute, longitude 233 degrees 20 minutes, (51 1' S; 233 20' W) and may serve as an excellent guide to the entrance of the various channel with which this country abounds.
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Green bar the main channel was a mile in width

The narrow passage by which we had entered, is a channel admissible for boats only; and thence by foot of Mount Stephens, was merely a chasm in the mountains, caused, probably, by some violent efforts of nature.  This idea originated in its differing materially in one particular from all the canals we had hitherto examined; namely, in its having regular soundings, not exceeding the depth of 13 fathoms, although its shores, like all those of the bottomless canals, were formed by perpendicular cliffs, from their snowy summits to the water's edge.  The stupendous mountains on each side of this narrow chasm, prevented a due circulation of air below, by excluding the rays of the sun; whilst the exhalations from the surface of the water and humid shores of the canal, wanting rarefication, were in a great measure, detained, like steam in a condensed state; the evaporation thus produced a degree of cold and chillness which rendered our night's lodging very unpleasant.

August 5th, -   By this expedition, the continental shore was traced to the western-most land in sight.  We had now only to proceed along it, as soon as the wind and weather would permit our moving.  This, however, a thick fog and a calm prevented, until Sunday afternoon, when a light breeze between S. W. and West, enabled us, by sunset, to advance about two leagues to the westward of Point Boyles, which, by compass, bore from us S. 85 W.  *    *    *    *   *

Snipped for now

Need to continue reading; continue plotting;

June 7th, 1792 and more, awaits

Google Search Criteria:  Extracts from the Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean in 1792 and 1793, by Captain George Vancouver

Google Search Criteria: Here the Chatham anchored, and Mr. Broughton pursued its eastern coast in his boat along the continental shore

Thursday, July 2, 2015

CPR's Arbutus rail corridor: DeRails are designed for track grades at 2.2%. What about 9.8%?


It's all about the money.  Vancouver has offered $20 million for the Arbutus Corridor. CPR wants $100 million.
 A plan by Canadian Pacific Railway to run trains along the Arbutus Corridor means it will be riskier for children learning about plant biodiversity in a communal garden in the area, according to an organizer.  Vancouver Sun - Brian Morton, Tiffany Crawford, Jeff Lee
"Run trains" is a gross overstatement.

Oh the irony, Vancouver's Shaughnessy, created by CPR to 'house' their financial backers in the early 1900s are now being subjected to the railway ruthlessness of subjecting children, their children, to unscheduled movement of rail cars blocking the 9 major thoroughfares of Fourth, Burrard, Broadway, 12th, 16th, King Edward (25th), 33rd, 41st, 49th, and Marine Drive.  Of course there are others who will be impacted: businesses, students, employees, YVR bound visitors, Point Grey and South slope residents, and the UBC Endowment Land folks like the Mayor for Vancouver hopeful, what's his name.... Lapointedly.


First to be stopped will be the infamous red-light running Premier Christy Clark traveling from her home, in Shaughnessy to deliver her precious child Prince to St. George's school for the elite.  They'll have to get up and start an hour earlier.



If the City of Vancouver wants to send a clear message to CPR, to its citizens and visitors, then starting this Summer they could set up traffic control blockades, or post signs of hypothetical times that the corridor will be shut down for the movement of CPR rail cars on a dead end line used for storage purposes only.   Pity the poor rail customer that finds the delay in receiving his shipment from CPR is because it's sitting at Fourth and Fir.  Dead Space for a rail car to sit while it could be on its way to Brampton.  It will sit there until Vancouver negotiates, in good faith.

The Arbutus Corridor rail cars will not be going from A to B!  The rail cars are going from A and back to A!

9.8% Grade between 37th and 33rd



Between 37th and 33rd there's the 'Big Bend', a 9.8% Grade from high to low and back again.  Any curve that is introduced to a rail line creates friction between rail track and railcar wheels that SQUEALs incessantly.  In that space of four blocks there will be a lot of complaints about noise, vibration too, and children's safety.  Chain link fence, razor barb wire topped would help as a deterrent. Swing chain link gates at intersecting roadways would be of assistance, doing double duty by blocking road traffic and then blocking access to the rail corridor.

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Yoho National Park: Double Spiral Tunnels built on a slope with a steep grade of 4.5%, more than twice the maximum of 2.2% allowed, according to CPR Directives
Field BC  CPR Station

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News 1130 - Steepest grade in all of British Columbia
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The train engine will always be to the South, shunting monthly, however  if CPR decides to increase the capacity of rail cars within the narrow corridor to two or three or four or five tracks wide, now that would means that there will be hourly movements, hourly road closures.


But what if someone(s) wants to give CPR a public relation's nightmare?  By far, the easiest way is to install a device that CPR, and other Rail companies, employ: the derailer.   Trains stay on the track by having the wheel rims inside the rail tracks.  To stop a train, as in Lac Megantic a Derail would have sent one wheel up a small ramp and drop outside forcing, and pulling the parallel wheel with it too.


Remember Lac Megantic's bursting into flames, loss of lives all of a result of the cheap skates at  Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway telling their employees not to invoke mechanical rail locking devices.  They relied on the Engine brakes, not properly set.


DeRail devices were designed to prevent accidents like La Megantic's from happening.

EB Hayes hinged Derailer - BBC Post

ALDON

Aldon Portable Derailers




Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Alterra Power Corp goal: IPP electricity from Wind Farms or Uranium, for BC Hydro's Kitimat/Prince Rupert LNG production

Do we really need to spend $9 billion on BC Hydro's Site C Dam to power Kitimat and Prince Rupert industrial plants?

May 18, 2012
Alterra acquires coastal island wind farms to supply LNG plants, but how will it get to Kitimat?

A Vancouver-based energy company, Alterra Power Corp, today, May 18, 2012, announced the acquisition of three wind farm sites off the north western British Columbia coast.
A news release from Alterra notes that the three “early-stage wind farm” sites, on Banks Island, Porcher Island and McCauley Island are “all within 150 kilometres of several proposed power-intensive LNG plant sites at Kitimat.”
 


When informed of the announcement, Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan asked, “How are they going to get it here?”

While the three islands are within 150 kilometres of Kitmat, any transmission lines would have to somehow cross the Inside Passage and its heavy ship traffic, including cruise ships, ferries, fishing vessels and bulk carriers (not to mention potentially tankers), and then also get over some of the most rugged mountain territory in Canada to reach any of the three liquified natural gas sites in Kitimat.

Could the goal not be wind powered electricity but merely gaining a foothold on the mineral rights to Uranium?


February 14, 1956
Two City Men Locate Uranium In Strength On Porcher Island
46 claims staked by Rupert concern

Uranium has been discovered on Porcher Island, 15 miles from Prince Rupert, a prospector for a group of local city businessmen, told the Daily News this morning.

George Fielding, 1020 Second Avenue West, a prospector and mining man for 30 years said here today that he and his exploration partner had located a "hot area" from 10 to 15 feet wide in a band of pebble-conglomerate, adjoining the iron formation being test drilled by the Argonaut Mining Company of the Utah Mining Company of America.

Mr. Fielding said he and Leo Johnson, 723 Fraser Street, also a veteran prospector-miner checked and re-checked the pebble-conglomerate band until there was no doubt.  The intensity recorded on their geiger counter was extremely strong and the pebble-conglomerate was a similar formation to that of Blind River area in Ontario which proved such a momentous find.

The prospector said that he and his associates have a group of 46 claims staked on Porcher Island across Chismore Pass.  The claims cover approximately 1,846 acres.

Arrangements are being made in Vancouver, Mr. Fielding said, for a geologist to make a geophysical survey of the property.

Prior to coming to Prince Rupert Mr. Fielding prospected for three years in northern Labrador, in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

Friday, June 26, 2015

New British Columbia: Prince Rupert 1910



Page 53 and 54 of 96

From the Series: 
New British Columbia : the Undeveloped Areas of the Great Central and Northern Interior

1912 - Thirteenth Edition
1910 - Twelfth Edition
1910 - Eleventh Edition Supplement
1909 - Tenth Edition Supplement
1908 - Ninth Edition
1907 - Seventh Edition
1906


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Friday, June 5, 2015

Black "Ops Log - 97": Screen shot Versadex / ECOMM / FLNR / May 2015

The BC Liberals have honestly earned the reputation: Shred everything;

BC Liberals used back channels to hide the Ethnic Scandal;

Brian Bonney's trial in 2016 might shine a bright light into the dark corners of corruption;

Have the BC Liberal bought into a knock off Versadex type program to ensure that what the Public is entitled to know via FOI, is denied?  No such file found.

Ops Log - 97

LMD/WKP?   - Lower Mainland VersaDex  / West Kootenay Police?

FLNR   -  Forest, Land and Natural Resources, why not JAG - Justice






Vancouver Police Department Has a Who done it manual on the proper handling of   Versadex  Security Clearance Private or Invisible  channels.

 
BC Liberal Government/Party/Hacks
 
2.9 Information Management

2.9.4 (iii) Making FOI Records Private or Invisible


PRIME affords BC GCPE the opportunity of making either parts of a report or the entire report "Private" or "Invisible". Both these features are powerful tools to control access to sensitive information. Inappropriate use, however, can have serious consequences to the functioning to Todd Stone's Transportation Ministry by hampering information sharing and the collection of statistics. Members shall meet the requirements stipulated in this section before making a GO report, Flag Record, or Street Check "Private" or "Invisible".

As a policy, GCPE shall refrain from make entire GO reports "Private" or "Invisible" if the objective can be met by making only select parts of the report "Private" or "Invisible".


Sunday, May 24, 2015

BC Hydro Achilles Heels: Trial by Fire: Transmission Lines eg. Dokie Wind Farm $500 Million loss; WAC Bennett Dam Power to 1/2 Province

The weakest link for BC Hydro:  The Transmission lines

Why is it that BC Hydro transmission lines are always over budget?

Why aren't they built using P3s?

Are the clear-cut right-of-ways wide enough to stop a forest fire from melting their cables as it were a flaming Translink bird nest?

Would consumers be given a one day free 'ride' by BC Hydro for the inconvenience of losing electricity?

 Are these the jobs that Christy Clark keeps talking about?

How long will it take to re-string the 'christmas' lights from Hudson Hope to Metro Vancouver?

How long to build concrete transmission towers or is the plan afoot to dig Trenches and put the hydro cables underground just like the methods that Enbridge and Kinder Morgan use for their pipelines?


If a forest fire were to rage through the wind farms, would their replacement estimate cost be the same as the Dokie Wind Farm: $500 Million

Would the Independent Power Producers be required to fulfill their contracts, or absolved of contractual obligations based on the ever interfering God, Mother Nature, or Terrorism?

BC Hydro - DAMs  strung together with Transmission lines



WAC Bennett Dam



2014 Fire Season

599 caused by Humans

Timber and Infrastructure Values at Risk: $1 Billion (plus)

Suppression costs:  $300 million


Slocan Park: Threat to Transmission Lines and CBC Radio Tower
and communities





Will Site C transmission lines be any safer?  Hudson Hope ........


Chelaslie fire





Somewhere in there is a BC Hydro Northern Transmission line..... Red Chris .....


BC Hydro how to: without damaging the towers:
Intended Implosion


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Mount Polley EVENT


Imperial Metals ..... not business as usual ... @ Mount Polley


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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

"Alluring British Columbia" 1931: Department of Mines: or "Land of the Golden Twilight" 1930 (Standard Time)

In the years where a computer wasn't necessary ...... nor politicians needing to create nonsense reports to hide their handiwork today; selling off British Columbia resources for ...... a song




Alluring British Columbia                                          1931
British Columbia-Canada                                           1931
British Columbia's Picturesque Highways                 1932
Come to British Columbia                                          1931
Manual of British Columbia                                       1930
Land of the Golden Twilight                                      1930
Rod and Rifle in British Columbia                             1932
Synopsis of Hunting and Fishing Regulations           1933


Left Side down Blue-Prints and Ozalid Prints


Right Side down  Photostats





Page 2 Right Side UP

Minister of Mines N. S. Lougheed


Pre-Emptor Series:


Lands No. 1 How To Pre-Empt Land

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  Publications of the Government of British Columbia   1871 -1947 

Alluring and Auto Camps     Page 124 of 251

  

Monday, May 11, 2015

BC Hydro's WAC Bennett Dam flooded Tutu and Parsnip Bands territories: compensation: $36,950 for lost traplines

Making a deal with the Devil, once was enough:

BC Hydro
BC Government
WAC Bennett Dam
Williston Reservoir


No need for Site C on the Peace. 

BC Hydro Heritage Funds have paid billion of dollars to the BC Liberals to balance their books, and what were the people paid for the loss of their land forever?

Christy Clark wants to do it again with Site C
Summary of Compensation Payments made for Traplines and Improvements Thereon Related to Flooding of the Finlay and Parsnip River Valleys by B.C. Hydro


In 1968, B.C. Hydro built the Bennett Dam, west of Hudson Hope on the Peace River.  The impact of the dam was the flooding of the Finlay-Parsnip River area and the formation of Williston Lake, which is 1070 sq. km. in size and has a shoreline of 1770 km.  Large quantities of timber stands were flooded along with the Sekani reserve at Fort Grahame, known as Finlay Forks I.R. No. 1, as well as a nearby sawmill which employed 33 Indians.  About forty Indians lived permanently in Fort Grahame, while most lived in trapping cabins along the Finlay River.

In exchange for the flooded Finlay Forks reserve, two reserves, Tutu Creek and Parsnip were set aside in 1969 for the Finlay Forks Bank.  They are located fairly close to the new town of Mackenzie. 

Unfortunately the Indians were not happy with these reserves; Tutu Creek was never inhabited, and, while four families did move to Parsnip, it was abandoned a few years later.  Most of the members of this Band have squatted on Crown Lands at Ingenika because they much prefer the more isolated location.  The remaining members of this Band have settled at Ware and McLeod Lakes. 

Because of the flooding the composition and quantity of wildlife in the area has been greatly affected by the creation of the Lake according to the Department of Environment.  This has, in turn, impacted on the guiding and trapping area of the Indians.  The people of Ingenika and McLeod Lake now have to travel much further than in the past to reach the animals, and then find a reduced quantity.  Access to what is left of the traplines is very difficult.

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Although the Sekani were known to be within the boundaries of Treaty 8, no agreement was ever signed by representatives of the Ingenika Band.   The Sekani and the Carrier up to the present)have never signed a Treaty of Agreement concerning their traditional lands. 

Both Commissioner O'Reilly and the 1916 Royal Commission allotted a number of Reserves to these Bands.  

The Royal Commission reported that the majority of the Carrier and Sekani were progressive, intelligent and were fairly well off, except that the decline in the fur prices were greatly affecting their way of living.  The Indians of this region were employed in fishing, hunting, trapping, stock-raising, gardening, picking and working for wages.


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Trappers go out in October, after freeze-up and first snow, for beaver and muskrat and by November, all furs are legally open for harvesting.  The traplines are worked until March, when winter fur season closes, with the exception of two months (March-April) period for muskrat and beaver.   From May to mid-June is bear season, both grizzly and black.   Mid-June to September is the Summer slack, a time for community lief, with occasional opportunities for logging and construction jobs.   September is a month traditionally spent getting ready for Winter fur season.  Equipment must be cleaned and oiled, cabins built or refurbished, dried food stocks laid in and ski-doo readied for haul to the trapping cabin.

Before the establishment of schools the entire family might go out on the trapline.  The Winter fur operation represented a major family relocation from the main settlement.  It should also be noted that the majority of Bands covered by the Carrier-Sekani claim still rely heavily on trapping, fishing and hunting for subsistence.

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Graph Maker: 
Hugh Brody is the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia.

 Prior to 1960                                                                                           After 1960





The Treaty 8 Commissioners were handicapped at the beginning of their negotiations as the Indian Affairs Department could not provide them with reliable information as to the manners, customs and characteristics of the northern Indians.  Also, there was uncertainty concerning treaty boundaries and questions arose as to the number of B.C. natives who should  be involved in treaty negotiations.  It is difficult to ascertain those Sekani in the Treaty 8  area who could have adhered to treaty  because of the nomadic nature of the Sekanis and the confusion as to the nomenclature of bands or tribes (eg. at one time there was a Finlay River Band, but this has been supplanted by the Fort Ware and Ingenika Bands).  It is certain, however, that the following Sekani Bands did not adhere to Treaty No. 8: Fort Ware, Ingenika, Liard River, Bear Lake and Takla Lake.

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Prior to 1960

"McLeod's Lake, Fort Grahame and Lake Connelly Bands of Sikanees number ninety-five, ninety-nine and one hundred and nineteen, respectively.  They are nomadic, live in wigwams, fish, hunt and trap in and about the localities named.  Their trapping grounds are very much depleted of fur-bearing animals."  -   Department of Indian Affairs, Annual Report 1895


TBC





Monday, May 4, 2015

Capers? WholeFoods? Recipes for Egg-plant Fritters Curried & Macaroni Stew using a "Forcing House" 1918

Egg-plant and Pepper Growing in the B.C Dry Belt.  (1918)

THESE two crops require practically the same treatment, about the only difference being that the egg-plants are not quite as hardy; hence the plants require more careful handling, and when setting in the field they require rather more room than the peppers. The seeds for these crops should be started in greenhouse or hotbed early in March, and should be given the warmest part of the house for starting the seeds, as well as afterwards for the growing of the plants. A night temperature of 55F to 60F (13C to 16C) degrees, with an addition of 15F (10C) degrees during daylight, is not too much for good growth, provided a little ventilation is given every day when weather will permit. 

Egg-Plant Fritters and Macraroni Stew


Forcing House
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The above 1918 circular has been prepared by J. L. Hilborn, Kill Kare Fruit Farm, West Summerland, B.C., at the request of the Horticultural Branch.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Did BC Transportation Minister Todd Stone's Grand Father forfeit his 1912 License ................... Plate?

W. A. Stone  1415 Nelson Street, Vancouver

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Two motorcyclists:

#1331  S. J. Mathews, Knob Hill Avenue, Phoenix

#1333 E.P. Cusgrove, Phoenix

#0129 Todd Stone, speeding ticket

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