Extended Family Narratives

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(1825-2022)

Over 60 years ago, John McKinley Girvan initiated a research of the European half of his and our family origins. On the death of John, the genealogical baton was passed on to his sister Gloria Girvan Akin. Gloria wrote some profiles of the people whose stories we  know from oral narratives within the Jamaican family. In the early 1990s Garry Girvan published a modest booklet, Girvanopedia, containing biographical accounts composed by Gloria, of the people of the families of the 3 Scottish brothers who left Ayrshire, Scotland and emigrated to Jamaica in 1825.

Au Pays de L’Ours Noir: Part 29

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

Mankind Acquires Water

Au Pays de L’Ours Noir: Part 25

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

The Babines

Au Pays de L’Ours Noir: Part 26

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

 Ceremonies: The Potlach

Au Pays de L’Ours Noir: Part 22

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

  Encounters with Bears

Au Pays de L’Ours Noir: Part 24

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

Nearly Blinded

Au Pays de l’Ours Noir, Part 17

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

 Duck Hunt at Stoney Creek

Au Pays de l’Ours Noir: Part 15

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir,

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

At Nautley

The Glory of Cielomar: A Summer Party in Ladysmith

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The Beautiful Dawn of a New Day:Sunrise Over the Salish Sea from Cielomar (Click on image to enlarge)

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Fiftieth Anniversary Party

Au Pays de l’Ours Noir: Part 1

Excerpt from Au Pays de l’Ours Noir

Dispatches of a Missionary 1897, by Father

Adrien Gabriel Morice

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Translated by Neil Wylie and Garry Girvan

Preface