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Author: Emily Carr

Schools

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

It took a generation and a half for English settlers in Victoria to accept the Canadian public school which they insisted on calling the “free school”. They turned their noses up at our public schools as if they had been bad smells, preferring to send their children to old,…

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Cemetery

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

The first cemetery that I can remember was on Quadra Street. It was only one-half block big and was already nearly full when we went through it coming from church one Sunday morning. It had a picket fence and was surrounded by tall, pale trees whose leaves had silver…

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Cathedral

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

Christ Church cathedral sat on the top of Church Hill. The Hill sloped gently to the town on its north side and sharply down to James’ Bay on the south, with shelves and sheer drops where rock had been blasted out for road-making. A French family by the name…

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