Some articles are available in pdf format on request.
"Nelson Cleveland Parham: a citizen of high repute; excerpts from his Journal 1904-1913" and "February 1936: Dressing for a Valley Winter" [photo and vignette Wilfrid Laurier Parham and Willard Dunn]. Annual Journal Chateauguay Valley Historical Society 2024 . pdf available on request or use this link. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7m5rc35lbpt975fea13b2/2024-Journal-88pp-for-web.pdf?rlkey=70aquwoika58fo6gwjzqzph2s&dl=0
"Song of the Oars; a Quebec boy meets the Emperor Wu near the California goldfields. Looking at one of Charles J Parham's "Lyrical Translations". The Dorchester Review #26, fall/winter 2023. https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Dorchester/DR26%20CJP%20Chinese.pdf#
"Fiji before the Sun Set; Phyllis Reeve revisits her literary grandmother's oeuvre". concerning Richenda Parham's history of pre-Cession Vanua Levu Dorchester Review #25. spring/summer 2023. www.dropbox.com/s/222blhf6o2anfmw/DR25%20Richenda.pdf?dl=0
"Koyama of Silva Bay" Nikkei Images Vol 26 2021 Before the Pages and the Reeves, the Koyama family was here. This is their story. Republished in 3 parts in Discover Nikkei ,
With Elizabeth Newton, thinking about the poetry of her father and my friend Norman Newton on the website CREATORS VANCOUVER a stink of perfume and decay
A brief biography of my Dad on Mike Gosling's site Fiji; Land of our Fathers
The most exciting book I read in 2016, Boussole by Mathias Enard, a novel about everything. See my unpublished, apparently unpublishable, review in pdf below.
My ruminations on my Canadian family in World War 1 and before. "My Father was Wilfrid Laurier and Why: politics in Huntingdon, QC and Russell, ON 1891-1918" See pdf "Elections Story" below. Gabriola Arts Council 14 June 2023
My grandmother's history of Vanua Levu, which my aunts compiled from the newspaper clippings - it ran as a serial - then illustrated it with watercolours [the BL record says by the author, but I think they are more likely by her daughters] and bound in masi [barkcloth]. They then deposited it in the British Library. The BL bookbinding database has pictures:
H.B.R. Parham. Fiji before the Cession
Uncle Jack's family history
John Bright Parham's research notes This link may not give complete access. The notes are also available in a pdf.
Gabriola Museum .DVD Gabriola Tides: Stories of Silva Bay
The Art of Engagement Network has moved to Facebook Art & Survival and is now inactive. Archives of the Islands Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, ancestor of the Network, remain as a Wiki
"Nearly the Same Thing." review of Green, by Paul Moorehead. Dorchester Review #32. Summer 2025.
"Serious Gawking". review of The Calf with Two Heads; transatlantic natural history in the Canadas by Louis Blair. Dorchester Review #28. Summer 2024.
"Finding community through quilting". Review of Knots & Stitches: community quilts across the harbour. by Kristin Miller. BC Review August 2, 2024 thebcreview.ca/2024/08/02/2250-reeve-miller/
"Fighting for equal status" review of Sisters in Arms; female warriors from antiquity to the new millennium. by Julie Wheelwright. BC Review April 11 2024 thebcreview.ca/2024/04/11/2132-reeve-wheelwright/
"Exploring a postwar childhood tradition." review of My Paddle's Keen and Bright: Summer Camp Stories by Rika Ruebsaat. BC Review March 26, 2024
"A visually beautiful book". review of Kimiko Murakami; a Japanese Canadian Pioneer by Haley Healey. BC Review January 29 2024
"Remembering the working west coast", review of From Camp to Camp, from Dock to Dock, the BC Coast in My Eyes by Doug Harrison. BC Review December 6 2023 Phyllis Reeve reviews From Camp to Camp, from Dock to Dock: The Work of Doug Harrison, The BC Coast in My Eyes by Doug Harrison (thebcreview.ca)
Review of The Matryoshka Memoirs; a story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance by Sasha Colby, 2023 Gabriola Arts Council 18 October 2023
Review of "From Camp to camp, from dock to dock....." by Doug Harrison. Gabriola Arts Council 23 August 2023
"A dose of planetary reality", review of The Power of Dreams; 27 Years off-grid in a Wilderness Valley by Dave and Rosemary Neads. BC Review #1837
review of The Power of Dreams; 27 years off-grid in a Wilderness Valley by Dave and Rosemary Neads. Gabriola Arts Council 14 June 2023
"All the world's a harbour". review of Workboats for the World; the Robert Allan Story by Robert G Allan with Peter A. Robinson. BC Review #1806
review of Workboats for the World; the Robert Allan Story by Robert A. Allan. Gabriola Arts Council 19 April 2023
"A Small Coven of Seniors" in Gabriola Island Pandemic Stories page 66. Gabriola Museum, 2023
"Mother Tongue bites its tongue". report on Mother Tongue Publishing's complete catalogue. BC Review #1743
review of The Typewriter Century, A Cultural History of Writing Pnractices . by Martyn Lyons. Amphora 189.
"Mona, Sandy and Yvonne", review of Mother Tongue Publishing's complete catalogue Trade books and Limited Editions 1995-2021. Gabriola Arts Council 8 February 2023 . with a postscript - and typo - GAC 22 February 2023
"Getting Emotional" review of Feeling Feminism; Activism, Affect, and Canada's Second Wave ed, Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson and Catherine Gidney. BC Review #1713 .
Review of Art, Research, Play by Donald Lawrence et al Gabriola Arts council 2 Nov 2022
"The celebrated camera obscura". review of Art Research Play by Donald Lawrence et al. BC Review #1594
"The Art of the Possible". review of Fire on Headless Mountain by Iain Lawrence. BC Review 1582
review of Fire on Headless Mountain by Iain Lawrence. Gabriola Arts Council 21 Sept 2022
review of Time Together by Naomi Beth Wakan and Elias Wakan. Gabriola Arts Council 10 August 2022
"Enter the Native Daughters", review of Hastings Mill; the historic times of a Vancouver Community by Lisa Anne Smith . BC Review #1529
review of Snuneymuxw history written in Places and Spaces: Ancestors' Voices - and Echo in Time by Geraldine Manson Gabriola Arts council 13 July 2022
"imaginary Art. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham. Gabriola Art Council 15 June 2022
"Hearts across hemispheres". review of Under the Nakba Tree; fragments of a Palestinian family in Canada by Mowafa Said Househ. BC Review 1473
"a carriage that were green". review of I Want To Tell you Love; a critical edition. by Milton Acorn and bill bissett, ed Eric Schmaltz and Christoph er Doody. BC Review 1442
review of All is Well by Katherine Walker. . Gabriola Arts Council 6 April 2022
"A Constabulary for women." review of Vancouver's Women in Blue; trailblazers of the Vancouver Police Department 1904-1975 by Carolyn J. Daley. BC Review #1411
"A terminal drive along Interstate 5." review of Elderville by Roy Innes. BC Review #1381 Also adapted for Gabriola Arts Council 23 Feb 2022
"Seamstress to cabinet minister." review of A Liberal-Labour Lady: the Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith by Veronica Strong-Boag. Ormsby Review #1362
"Imaginary Art" The Tartarus House on Crab by George Szanto Gabriola Arts Council 8 December 2021
"From anonymity to spotlight". review of Pandemic Spotlight: Canadian Doctors at the Front of the Covid-19 Fight by Ian Hanomansing. Ormsby Review 1285
"A History of the Theories of Rain" by Stephen Collis Gabriola Arts Council 10 November 2021
"Imaginary Art" The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary. Gabriola Arts Council 30 Sept 2021
"Take stock, stand up, get traction". review of Tower 25; a graphic memoir by PJ Patten. Ormsby Review #1225
review of The Bomb in the Wilderness; photography and the Nuclear Era by John O'Brian. Gabriola Arts Council 18 August 2021
"Koyama of Silva Bay". Nikkei Images. Vol.26 2021 . Before the Pages and the Reeves, the Koyama family was here. This is their story. Republished in Discover Nikkei
Selected Works by Barbara Klunder Gabriola Arts Council 21 July 2021
"Cariboo truth and invention." review of Always Pack a Candle; a Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin by Marion McKinnon Crook. Ormsby Review #1165
"Home on leave from Penang". review of Then Now by Daphne Marlatt. Ormsby Review #1153
review of Write Away! (prompts for a healthy life) by Naomi Beth Wakan. Gabriola Arts Council June 9, 2021
"An Islamic-Canadian Journey", review of The Colour of God by Ayesha S Chaudhry. Ormsby Review #1135
"Roll up and begin anew", review of Unravelling Canada; a Knitting Odyssey by Sylvia Olsen, Ormsby Review #1113
"Page's plays and fairy tales" review of Metamorphosis; selected Children's Literature by P.K. Page; edited by Margaret Steffler. Ormsby Review #1107
review of Love and Courage in Troubled Times by Charlotte Cameron. Gabriola Arts Council April 14, 2021. I also wrote a cover blurb and am mentioned in the acknowledgements.
"A balanced cultural herstory" review of Hearing more voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the Air, 1914-1960 by Peggy Lynn Kelly and Carole Gerson. Ormsby Review #1085
Lynda Archer's Tears in the Grass Gabriola Arts Council newsletter March 31, 2021
Indigenomics; taking a seat at the economic table. by Carol Anne Hilton. reviewed in Gabriola Sounder March 24, 2021, p.7
"A Wartime Internment Romance" review of Toshiko by Michael Kluckner. Ormsby Review #1049
Deadman's Castle by Iain Lawrence. review in Gabriola Arts Council 17 Feb. 2021. Expanded review "The hazards of home school" Ormsby Review #1068
"Passionate about the Past." review of Great Expectations; Reflections on Museums and Canada. by Jack Lohman. Ormsby Review #989
"Unsung Artists find their Voice.". review of The Pocket Guide to The Unheralded Artists of BC Series. ed by Mona Fertig. Ormsby Review #986 Also adapted for the Gabriola Art Council Newsletter January 6 2021
"A Pocket Guide to Dragons." Amphora 183. Fall 2019
"Maternalists, suffragists, elitists". review of A Great Revolutionary Wave; Women and the vote in British Columbia by Lara Campbell, Ormsby Review #974
Back-cover blurb for Scattered Leaves by Alison Fitzgerald and Naomi Beth Wakan.
"A counsellor's perilous odyssey". review of Borderline Shine; a memoir by Connie Greshner. Ormsby Review #954
"The relevance of Ken Lum". review of Everything is relevant; writings on art and life, 1991-2018 by Ken Lum. Ormsby Review #930
"Everyone's Thomas Merton". review of Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton's Dance with the Feminine by Susan McCaslin and J.S. Porter. Ormsby Review #883
"Pacific Splendour". review of A Perfect Eden; encounters by early explorers of Vancouver Island and In Nature's Realm; early naturalists explore Vancouver Island by Michael Layland. Dorchester Review Spring. summer 2020
"A real book about real music"; review of Jan in 35 Pieces: a Memoir in Music by Ian Hampton. Ormsby Review #854
"Beach glass on a bed of seaweed" review of On the Arts; essays by Naomi Beth Wakan. Ormsby Review #763
"Hughes presents the Mainland" review of EJ Hughes paints British Columbia by Robert Amos Ormsby Review #679
"De Monstris; an exhibition of Monsters and the Wonders of Human Imagination." Amphora No. 181, Spring 2019
"Mission to skid row" review of In His steps; the life and times of Wilberforce Cooper, Vancouver's Skid Road Priest. Ormsby Review #590. Reprinted in PAX, St.James' Anglican Church, Advent 2019.
"Unscrambling the Codes" review of Avant Canada; Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries edited by Gregory Betts and Christian Bok. Dorchester Review V.9, N.1, 2019.
"Pregnant lines and pauses." review of Q&A by Adrienne Gruber. Ormsby Review #568
"Playing saxophone at Ponoka." Review of Playing into Silence by Tina Biello. Ormsby Review #559
"Some Museums help with repatriation" Letter to Victoria Times-Colonist 25 May 2019
"From Timmy's to Swan Lake" Review of Homeless Memorial: Poems from the Streets of Vernon by John La Greca. Ormsby Review #537 and as "Greca wrestling with Truth" in BC Bookworld Summer 2019
"Uncatalogued Quarry". [my bestiaries]. Amphora. No. 180. Fall, 2018.
"Joe's monsters and critters". Review of Bite Me! Musings on Monsters and Mayhem by Joe Rosenblatt, Ormsby Review #510
"A co-creator with God." Review of Exposed by Eileen Curteis. Ormsby Review #498
"Chinese Shadows". Review of Finding Mr. Wong by Susan Crean and The Unceasing Storm, Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Katherine Luo. Dorchester Review V.8, N.2, 2018.
"Roma and other Gypsies." Review of Gypsy Fugue; an archetypal memoir by Marlene Schiwy Ormsby Review #402
"Letters to Drumheller." Review of Dead Reckoning; how I came to meet the man who murdered my father by Carys Cragg. Ormsby Review #396
"The Illusionary realism of E.J. Hughes." Review of E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island by Robert Amos. Ormsby Review #326
"Seaweed's nonchalant tough love." Review of Seaweed under Fire by Stanley Evans. Ormsby Review 299 BC BookWorld V.32. N.3 Autumn 2018 p,32
"Specific to the Pacific." Review of Refugium; poems for the Pacific. ed. Yvonne Blomer.. Ormsby Review 227 "Specific to the Pacific"
"Faces of Modernity." review of The Beaver Hall Group and its Legacy by Evelyn Walters and Emily Carr as I Knew Her by Carol Pearson. Dorchester Review V.7, N.2 2017.
Contributions to Travelling through Time; a Guide to Historic Sites of Gabriola Island ed. Ivan Bulic. Gabriola Historical and Museum Society 2017
"How would you like to die". letter in BC Medical Journal v.59. n.6 July/August 2017
"It takes one to Tanka." Review of The Way of Tanka by Naomi Beth Wakan. Ormsby Review #136; BC BookWorld Autumn 2017 p.30
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"The making of Making Room." Review of Making Room; forty years of Room Magazine. Ormsby Review 130
"History as Real Estate Development". review of Placemakers, emperors, kings, entrepreneurs: a brief history of real estate development by Herb Auerbach with Ira Nadel. Dorchester Review. V.6. N.2, 2016.
The Literary Storefront, the glory years; Vancouver's literary centre 1978-84 by Trevor Carolan. review Amphora 171. Fall 2015.
"Is 'Canada' really just Empty Space?" review of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: studying the visual in Canada. Dorchester Review V.5 N.1 2015
"The Life and Art of Harry & Jessie Webb". by Adrienne Brown. review. Amphora 168, Fall 2014.
"The Most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses." by Kevin Birmingham. Amphora 168, Fall 2014.
"A Cree Olympian as Everyman." review of Running; the Alex Decoteau story by Charlotte Cameron. Dorchester Review V.4, N.2 2014.
With WLP cited in R, Ewins. Traditional Fijian Artefacts, 2014.
"More Wharves on Silva Bay." Shale 28. June 2014
"A Passionate Patron" review of Harold Mortimer Lamb; the Art Lover by Robert Amos. Dorchester Review V.4, N.1. 2014
"Mapping an Island Paradise" review of The Land of Heart's Delight; Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island by Michael Layland. Dorchester Review V.4 N.1 2014
"Art made from Books" compiled by Laura Heyenga. Review. Amphora165 Fall/Winter 2013.
"The Stuff of Culture" Amphora 164 See illustrations on my Flickr site
"Learning from Silence; victims of Canada's Pacific War." Dorchester Review V.3. No.1. 2013 www.dorchesterreview.ca
"Island Books: a personal list" - handout for the Island Studies Conference, May 11, 2013. available as pdf below.
"Island Time, Metaphoric Realism and George Szanto"s Shores of Perception." paper presented at the Island Studies Conference on Gabriola Island, May 11, 2013.
For version in .pdf format, see below.
"Bogged Up not Down" review of George Szanto's Bog Tender. BC Bookworld. Spring 2013. http://www.abcbookworld.com/
Review of "Laura Secord: the Alphabet" by Barbara Klunder. Amphora 160 www.alcuinsociety.com/amphora
"Naomi's Roller-Coaster", BC Bookworld. Summer, 2012. http://www.abcbookworld.com [First section is editorial addition]
Cover endorsement. Naomi Beth Wakan, A Roller-coaster ride; thoughts on aging.. (Poplar Press, 2012). www.naomiwakan.com www.naomiwakan.com
Review of Garrett Stewart, Bookwork: medium to object to concept to art. Amphora 159 www.alcuinsociety.com/amphora
"Shikataganai - Never Again". Dorchester Review V.1.N.2 autumn/winter, 2011. www.dorchesterreview.ca
See also letter from Ann Sunahara in V.2. N.1.
"Japanese Canadians in Silva Bay..." , Shale 25 and other essays & reviews throughout the years of Shale journal of the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society
"The (Type) Faces of Lawrence Weiner", Amphora 156 www.alcuinsociety.com/amphora
Review of Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman, Picturing Canada: a History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing. Amphora 156 www.alcuinsociety.com/amphora
"The Classicist and the Cavalier; The World of Lord Falkland, Martyr of Conflict by Anthony W. Preston". Dorchester Review V.1.N.1 www.dorchesterreview.ca
Reviews in British Columbia Historical Federation publications occasionally 1987-2007
Reviews in Books in Canada 1999 Note also a review by Charles Reeve
"St. Catherine of Sienna". Kinesis V.4. N.35 1974.
Poems and stories in The Mitre 1955-59 Bishop's University