On October 1935, Emily Carr stood before the students and faculty at Victoria’s Normal School, delivering her speech “Something Plus in a Work of Art.” She confessed in her journal that she had spent a week preparing and, despite feeling steady rather than nervous, she felt the audience…
Carr House, at 207 Government Street was built in 1863–64 for Richard and Emily Saunders Carr in James Bay. Designed in an Italianate Picturesque‑villa style by Wright & Sanders, it sat on four 1/2 acres in James Bay, then a fashionable neighbourhood in Victoria. The original address of…
In the summer of 1898, a young Emily Carr boarded the steamship Willapa to return to Victoria with a portfolio of drawings and watercolours of the Indigenous communities of Ucluelet. She was just 27 and already deeply committed to becoming a serious artist, even though that path for…
hosted, designed & maintained by Marilyn Jones for the walks & talks, bus tours and presentations she offers on Emily Carr in-person and online from Victoria, BC.
