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  • Advisory Committee dismisses obvious option for Shakesides

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    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…

  • Questions arise about Town of Comox accounting of Mack Laing Trust Fund

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    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…

  • Mack Laing Society holding Art in the Park, AGM – Saturday, June 11, 2016

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    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…

  • Mack Laing Society holding Art in the Park, AGM – Saturday, June 11, 2016

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    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.

  • 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…