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  • Baybrook house represents a huge opportunity to celebrate heritage

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    I am writing as one of the founding Directors of the newly established Mack Laing Heritage Society of the Comox Valley. I am also Chair of the Board of Directors of the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society. Considerable volunteer effort has gone into the activities, proposals and reports presented to the Comox Council by the…

  • Let’s talk about Mack Laing’s home, Baybrook

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    Richard Mackie, one of BC’s best historians, recently re-confirmed once again in a letter that may have gone unnoticed, Baybrook is a heritage building. As with the loss of the Lorne Hotel, Comox is fast losing one of the last irreplaceable remnants of its history. Heritage and community history are not disposable, and shouldn’t be…

  • What would Mack Laing want?

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    I must say I’m not sure that Shirley McLoughlin’s prediction of what Mack Laing would want is entirely correct. For example, the suggestion that he would prefer to see his entire beautiful heritage home torn down and sent to the landfill rather than replacing a few rotten boards might not be accurate. Shirley also seems…

  • Baybrook proposal would benefit Town and citizens

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    My family has lived in our Baybrook area home for 25 years. We are proud to support the Mack Laing Heritage Society (MLHS) and applaud its plan to save a historic and beautiful house that we have long admired from a distance. We were thrilled when the Town and the BC Nature Trust purchased the…

  • Nature Kindergarten: Deepening connections with place

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    Dr. Enid Elliot discusses how active engagement and immersion outdoors allows children to connect deeply with nature through play, and experience traditional ways of knowing. The annual Robert Bateman Lecture was hosted by Royal Roads University on August 6, 2014. It can be watched here (43.23 minutes): http://youtu.be/V0OML7qZ5kQ

  • CV Conservation Strategy gives qualified support for MLHS project

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    Re: Mack Laing and proposal for Baybrook … The steering committee for the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy Community Partnership urges the Town of Comox to work with Mack Laing Heritage Society, K’ómoks First Nations, residents of the town and other groups such as Project Watershed, Comox Valley Nature, Macdonald Wood Park Society and Brooklyn Creek…

  • Mack Laing’s Baybrook home as important as Haig-Brown’s

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    As Mack Laing’s biographer, I must clarify the view expressed by some concerned Town of Comox residents that Laing’s house Baybrook, his waterfront and creek-side home in Comox, has “no heritage value.” The very opposite is true. Indeed, Baybrook is directly equivalent to the writer Roderick Haig-Brown’s house, Above Tide, in Campbell River. Both Baybrook…

  • Baybrook area petition supported by MLHS

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    Many thanks to the local residents who signed a petition declaring themselves ‘In favour of leaving Baybrook in its natural state’. The Mack Laing Heritage Society strongly supports this declaration.