Category: Letters

  • Baybrook plan is an opportunity

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

  • Attacks and disinformation reach new low, says CVN

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    Claims made against MLHS have reach new lows in personal attack and public disinformation. Although it is my policy never to dignify personal attack with a response, as President of Comox Valley Nature, I have been asked to set the record straight.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Preserving house preserves Mack Laing’s vision too

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    CBC radio played Stan Rogers sea shanty the other day about the “Northwest Passage to the Beaufort sea”. The song is about the Franklin expedition and the news story was the discovery of Sir Franklin’s ship on the sea bottom. The expedition to discover the northwest passage left England in 1845. The hope was that…

  • Baybrook could be lasting legacy

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    I am writing to express my support for the establishment of the Nature Centre at Baybrook House in Comox. I have some experience in the various factors involved as I have degrees in Environmental Studies & in Architecture from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, where I worked for a prominent restoration architect before moving…