Author: Emily Carr

Christmas

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

Victoria Christmas weather was always nippy–generally there was snow. We sewed presents for weeks before Christmas came–kettle holders, needle books, penwipers and cross-stitch bookmarkers. Just before Christmas we went out into the woods, cut down a fir tree and brought it home so alive still that the warm house…

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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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