{"id":148842,"date":"2023-04-18T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=148842"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:21:04","slug":"twin-island-history-book-set-to-launch-at-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/twin-island-history-book-set-to-launch-at-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Island history book set to launch at museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new book will be launched at the Cortes Island Museum and Archives (CIMAS) annual general meeting May 6 called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheltering in the Backrush: A History of Twin Islands.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stories peer into the world of the upper class through time as well as long-time traditional First Nations use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many locals on Cortes contributed to the book by being interviewed, as the islands are located near the southern coast of Cortes Island and the islands have been pragmatically connected by residents throughout history. The Tla'amin First Nation people migrated seasonally with the harvests, gathering food on the southern end of Cortes, as well as Twin Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Author Jeanette Taylor spoke with CKTZ about some of her findings in the book on Cortes Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Winter Village at Smelt Bay was their (local First Nations) winter digs. And then they moved, shifted to Twin and elsewhere in summer\u2026 the first settler, who was a Scottish immigrant, a one-legged Scottish immigrant, he really oriented himself to Cortes a lot. [He] moved his sheep around to Cortes and eventually he moved to Cortes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The historian and author will be presenting large photographs that drove many of the stories from the book. Taylor noted that many images on display at the AGM did not make it into the book, but she emphasized the importance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI'm gonna do it with images because I collected so many photographs\u2026 Certainly a big part of why I got interested and why the owner of Twin got interested is the collection of fabulous photographs, especially from the 1930s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>To hear more about Twin Island history from Jeanette Taylor, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book will be launched at the Cortes Island Museum and Archives (CIMAS) annual general meeting May 6 called Sheltering in the Backrush: A History of Twin Islands. The stories peer into the world of the upper class through time as well as long-time traditional First Nations use. Many locals on Cortes contributed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":148849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221,16830],"tags":[14260,4327,17847,3292,19373,25149,25148,18865],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149004,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842\/revisions\/149004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148842"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=148842"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=148842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}