Author: Emily Carr

Sophie

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

Sophie knocked gently on my Vancouver studio door. “Baskets. I got baskets.” They were beautiful, made by her own people, West Coast Indian baskets. She had big ones in a cloth tied at the four corners and little ones in a flour-sack. She had a…

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Cumshewa

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

Tanoo, Skedans and Cumshewa lie fairly close to each other on the map, yet each is quite unlike the others when you come to it. All have the West Coast wetness but Cumshewa seems always to drip, always to be blurred with mist, its foliage always to hang…

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Skedans

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

Jimmie, the Indian, knew the jagged reefs of Skedans Bay by heart. He knew where the bobbing kelp nobs grew and that their long, hose-like tubes were waiting to strangle his propeller. Today the face of the bay was buttered over with calm and there was a wide…

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