Category: Svalbard

  • Salvaged Artifacts & Stories

    Salvaged Artifacts & Stories

      August 22 – September 14 2014 Mahon Hall, 114 Rainbow Rd, Salt Spring Island Delving into historical documents is like exploring a culture so foreign that it seems incomprehensible. Assumptions made in the past are often completely contrary to what is believed today. Yet there is always something to latch on to, some thread…

  • Whalebones, Blubber & Other Relics of First Oil; Show at the Duthie Gallery

    Whalebones, Blubber & Other Relics of First Oil; Show at the Duthie Gallery

    April 4 – 29 2014 Duthie Gallery, Salt Spring Island In the early 17th century when European explorers first came across Bowhead whales around Svalbard they were so thick in the bays that the ships could hardly maneuver around them. Now the eastern pod of the Bowhead whale; also known as the Right Whale, because…