Author: adminml
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Where is the “Trust, respect and honour” our Mayor promised?
Letter sent via individual hard copy to Mayor and Councillors, copy to Mack Laing Society -posted with permission) Re: Saving Shakesides, the honouring of our elders and love of place. First: I draw attention to the Mayor’s inaugural address. “As I noted on election night, this is all about trust – what the voters and…
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MLHS declines to be present at Committee meeting
Statement to Mack Laing Nature House Advisory Committee, Friday June 10, 2016 by Angela Burns, representative for the Mack Laing Heritage Society (Note: Chair Terry Chester disallowed this comment) I declined to be present at this meeting because I saw no benefit to the MLHS in attending yet another session where I and the…
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Advisory Committee dismisses obvious option for Shakesides
The suggestion was relatively simple: Renovate and repurpose Shakesides into a small “Nature Interpretive Heritage House” to meet the intent and bequest of Hamilton Mack Laing. (He did not wish to aggrandize himself, but to educate and inspire future generations to appreciate nature) Shakesides could become a focal point for small, changing educational nature displays…
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Questions arise about Town of Comox accounting of Mack Laing Trust Fund
The Town of Comox’s report on the Mack Laing Trust, a bequest it accepted in 1982 on the death of Comox naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, has significant discrepancies, according to professional accounting report obtained from a private citizen by the Mack Laing Heritage Society. Kent Moeller (CPA, CA) of Moeller Matthews in Campbell River, disputes…
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Mack Laing Society holding Art in the Park, AGM – Saturday, June 11, 2016
The Mack Laing Heritage Society (MLHS) invites everyone to its ‘Art in the Park’ and plein air Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 11, 2016 from 10 am to 4 pm, behind Shakesides house in Mack Laing Park. This will be an art-making day at the site of Mack Laing’s former home. There will be…
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Mack Laing Society holding Art in the Park, AGM – Saturday, June 11, 2016
The Mack Laing Heritage Society (MLHS) invites everyone to its ‘Art in the Park’ and plein air Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 11, 2016 from 10 am to 4 pm, behind Shakesides house in Mack Laing Park. Read our press release for more information.
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Briony Penn awarded Mack Laing Literary Prize
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…
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Don’t miss our new t-shirts!
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.