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Author: Emily Carr

A Cup of Tea

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

One night an Indian family beached their canoe on the shore below Cook Street. Indians were allowed to pitch a tent and remain the night on any beach during their long canoe journeys up and down the Coast. This party of Indians was coming to Victoria but there was…

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East and West

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

Chinaman and Indian played a very real part in young Victoria. The Chinaman shuffled along in heelless shoes with his vegetable or fish baskets swinging. He peddled his wares with few words. The Indian’s naked feet fell pat-pat upon the earth roads. It was the Chinese man but the…

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Servants

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

What with big families and only green little Chinese boys for servants, Victoria matrons were kept busy. The boys came from China at the age of twelve. It took much patience to teach these foreign children our language as well as how to work. English servants who came out…

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