Month: May 2016

  • Briony Penn awarded Mack Laing Literary Prize

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    The Mack Laing Heritage Society is pleased to announce that author and educator Dr Briony Penn has been awarded the first Mack Laing Literary Prize for her biography of Ian McTaggart-Cowen “The Real Thing”.   The $1,000 literary prize is presented every 2 years to any writer who writes about Canada’s environmental history and commemorates…

  • Don’t miss our new t-shirts!

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    The MLHS is selling it’s prized Brian Scott Baybrook t-shirt at the BC Nature Convention at the Filberg Centre in Courtenay (May 12-14). Brian Scott kindly let up take a picture of him with some of their proud wearers.  

  • MLHS White Paper raises questions about Trust

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    In order to clarify some points raised – but not answered – by the Mack Laing Nature House Advisory Committee, the MLHS felt it useful to issue a statement: MLHSWhitePaper

  • Shakesides must be saved

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    April 22, We have been residents of Comox for 27 years. During that time we have regularly walked down Brooklyn Creek to ‘Shakesides’ then along the waterfront to Filberg Park. (our out of town guests love it). Over the years we often wondered who the tenants were and how ‘Shakesides’ in that lovely setting got…