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- Title: tsnuhwulhstum Queen Margaret’s School ’utl hwinumets’u | Simon Charlie Paints a Canoe for Queen Margaret’s School
- Title spoken by: Sally Hart
- Description: Dugout canoe donated as a fundraiser for building a new Queen Margaret’s School. Young children from QMS are sitting in the canoe to promote raffle tickets, while Chief Underwood and others supervise. The canoe and paddles were painted by Simon Charie.
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- Time period or Date: 1964
- Theme(s): Canoes and Boats, Education,
- Location: Queen Margaret School in Duncan
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Jay Powley
- Individuals identified: QMS pupils, left to right: Heather Hill, Susan Hud-son, Brenda Larsen and Kelly Teasdale. Standing are Chief Mike Underwood, Mrs. Elmer Campbell, Miss Margaret Glide, QMS principal; and Simon Charlie
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This was a story published in: the Cowichan Leader, 15 April 1964.
The Building Fund of Queen Margaret’s School will benefit from the raffle of this genuine two-man Indian dugout canoe. The draw will be made at the school’s annual Fun Fair May 30. in the meantime the canoe is on display at Eaton’s big department store at Vancouver. Seen in the canoe above are four young QMS pupils, left to right: Heather Hill, Susan Hudson, Brenda Larsen and Kelly Teasdale. Standing are Chief Mike Underwood, Mrs. Elmer Campbell, Cliff Road, whose husband bought the canoe from Kelly Peters of Bamfield and donated it to QMS; Miss Margaret Glide, QMS principal; Simon Charlie, who painted the designs on the canoe and paddles.
Photo by Jay Powley.
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