Author: Emily Carr

Regatta

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

The beautiful Gorge waters were smooth as glass once Victoria Harbour had been crossed. The Gorge was an arm of the sea which ran into the land for three miles. Near its head was a narrow rocky pass with a hidden rock in the centre which capsized many…

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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…

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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…

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