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Author: Emily Carr

Foundation

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

The House of All Sorts could not have been quite itself in any other spot in the world than just where it stood, here, in Victoria, across James’ Bay and right next to Beacon Hill Park. The house was built on part of the original property my father had…

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Martha’s Joey

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

One day our father and his three girls were going over James Bay Bridge in Victoria. We met a jolly-faced old Indian woman with a little fair-haired white boy about as old as I was. Father said, “Hello, Joey!”, and to the woman he said:  “How are you getting…

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Grown Up

Published: 1942
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The Book of Small

Victoria’s top grandness was the Driard Hotel; all important visitors stayed at the Driard. To sit in crimson plush armchairs in enormous front windows and gaze rigid and blank at the dull walls of the opposite side of View Street so close to the Driard Hotel that they squinted…

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