Category: Letters

  • 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…

  • Why did elected officials fail Baybrook?

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    Dear Editor, Since 2013, I have been a keen observer of the interactions going on between the Mack Laing Heritage Society and the Town of Comox. I read both reports from the Society, which as I understood it, was requested by the former council to come up with a plan. In my opinion, a reasonable…

  • Sense of place and history important for everyone

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    Note: This is a public letter sent to the Town of Comox and its elected Council and published here with permission. To Mayor Ives and the Comox Town Councillors, As an Emily Carr Fine Art student, I have undertaken a project that focuses on the importance of place as a part of how we understand…

  • Demolition of Mack Laing houses a “cultural affront” – BC Nature

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    Dear Mr. Ives and Councillors of the Town of Comox, Recently we have learned about your decision to demolish not one but both Mack Laing Houses in your community.  It goes without saying this potential act is of great concern to  naturalists, not only in your area, but to all naturalists and environmentalists in British…

  • Richard Mackie blasts loss of CV heritage

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    With regret I have cancelled the generous offer by Evelyn Gillespie to participate in the “Authors for Independent Bookstores” day at the Laughing Oyster Bookstore on Saturday 2 May 2015. Anyone familiar with my four Comox Valley books will appreciate my love of the history and heritage of the valley: Hamilton Mack Laing: Hunter-Naturalist (1985),…

  • Why is Comox so keen to demolish?

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    I was surprised to read in “Society slams Comox for failing to preserve historic Laing homes,” (The Echo,6 March) Mayor Ives’ claim that “interpretive panels had been erected to highlight the historic significance of Laing’s work.”   As only one small not very visible panel exists, I leave it to your readers to weigh the substance…

  • Brian Scott speaks out about Baybrook

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    What would Key West be without Ernest Hemingway or Savanna, Georgia without William Faulkner!!  Alice Munro, our only Nobel Laureate, stayed at Mack Laing’s house in the winter of 1996. I recently read a bio and it said Alice Munro wintered in Comox, BC. I have read all her books.  I finally figured out my…

  • Cherry-picked “truths about Baybrook” are incorrect

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    The recent letter by a Jane Adamson (nee Stubbs) “The Truth about Baybrook,” makes extremely incorrect allegations with reference to a statement I made on behalf of MLHS in April 2013: “Baybrook is to be restored in keeping with Mack Laing’s will..”