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6 South Surrey’s Historic Stewart Farm is set to give visitors a taste of an authentic Pioneer-era Christmas.
COVER STORY: Fall and winter are perfect for snuggling in front of a fire, but for those who love to be outdoors, the seasons are also a prime time for birdwatching. (John Gordon photo)
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20 Need to start your holiday shopping? Check out our gift guide.
25 Langley-born actress Amanda Crew is
setting her sights of new projects now that her HBO series has wrapped.
17 In an attempt to ‘bring some
humanity’ back to the holiday season, one woman is aiming to brighten the spirits of the homeless population.
26 Veteran theatre actor Michael Broderick
is back on stage in Scrooge With A Twist.
From the editor By Brenda Anderson
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ike most people, I’d imagine, some of my best memories of the holidays are rooted in childhood – the days when my brother and I would wake up early on Dec. 25 and race to the living room to see what treasures Santa had left under the tree. Even then, of course, we knew the Jolly Old Elf couldn’t reasonably be expected to fulfil our entire wish list. In the early 1970s, at the north end of Vancouver Island, we didn’t have access to the endless retail opportunities available today – whether in brickand-mortar shops or on the world wide web. So we turned to the Sears catalogue – more specifically, the Christmas Wish Book – the arrival of which each fall was in itself cause for celebration From it, we would dutifully make up lists for mom and dad of all the wonderful things that caught our eye, jotting down each toy’s item number and the page on which it could be found. Granted, the retailer didn’t fare well in the Internet age, but let’s give Sears credit where it is due. In an early example of marketing genius, if they didn’t have exactly what you’d ordered in stock, they’d just send the next closest thing – no doubt banking on the fact most people would be too lazy to return it for a refund. This is probably why my dad, a born-and-bred British Columbian – but ultimately a very practical man – drove around for years with a ‘Wild Rose Country Alberta’ cover on his spare tire. With no ‘order’ button to click, the transaction would take place first over the telephone and then through the mail. And overnight shipping was … well, it wasn’t. Not even close. For anyone under 40 reading this today, it no doubt sounds like a pretty old-fashioned way to
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go about things. But as Aaron Hinks found out during a chat with Surrey’s curator of exhibits and programs, for the folks who lived and worked on the Historic Stewart Farm 100 years ago, Christmas was very much a do-it-yourself affair. Even 40 years ago, something we weren’t yet thinking too much about was our effect on the environment. After the reams of wrapping paper came off the gifts, for example, it went straight into the fireplace. We ooh-ed and ah-ed as the chemicals on the paper turned the flames vivid shades of purple and blue. With all of us taking a closer look at our environmental footprint, Tracy Holmes shares a few things we can all do to minimize our impact on Mother Earth this holiday season. It has taken a number of years, too, for many of us to tweak onto the very simple lesson the Grinch learned way back in 1957 – when Dr. Seuss first introduced readers to the curmudgeonly thief – that Christmas doesn’t come from a store. It’s a lesson that North Delta’s Erin Schulte – organizer of the Christmas Card Collective – hopes will resonate with readers and help steer focus away from the commercial side of Christmas. But winter isn’t just about Christmas. It’s also the perfect time to go out in search of the multitude of bird species that either call the Peninsula home or pass through a couple times each year – as birder/ photographer John Gordon shares. However you plan to celebrate, hopefully you’ll find something here to help you fill you home with holiday cheer.
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Christmas in the early 1900s came with plenty of pros and cons, but the reality of ‘living the dream’ is that it was far more challenging than you might think
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t’s hard to not reminisce about a time when life was simple. As I’m writing this, I’m looking out of the office window, I’m visualizing fields of hay swaying in the breeze coming off South Surrey’s Nicomekl River. A gust of wind creates an ocean of golden waves, framed by a vibrant green trim, with snow-capped mountains in the background. There’s no traffic, no commotion. The air is fresh and the scene is silent, except for the chirping of birds. The thought – as I sit in a cold, shared cubical while bumping chairs with the sports editor – lifts a weight off my shoulders. The pioneers of the Semiahmoo Peninsula didn’t know how good they had it. They were free of the constraints that bog down, yet define, modern life. It’s refreshing to romanticize life in the early 1900s, however, as I learned from speaking with Surrey’s curator of exhibits and programs, the lifestyle was not an altogether desirable one. City of Surrey’s Jerrilin Spence has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to life on Historic
By Aaron Hinks
Surrey’s Historic Stewart Farm is open for the holiday season. (City of Surrey photo) Stewart Farm (13723 Crescent Rd.). John Stewart bought the farmhouse in the late 1880s and lived there with his family through the early 1900s. Mostly men and boys, they were hardworking hay farmers, living an authentic life that today’s Instagram ‘influencers’ would define as ‘living the dream.’ But I’ve come to believe that no one in their right mind would actually want to live a truly
authentic lifestyle – and here’s why: Starting with physical labour – they started young. Even getting to school was a journey back then. Pro: Everyone was in fantastic physical shape. Con: Children had to walk two miles each way – through bitter cold and snow – from the farmhouse to the school. The school was called Mud Bay School, so it’s not hard to imagine that commute. The trek was just the beginning. Once the students returned home, it was dark by 4:30 p.m. and there was no electricity. “You’re mucking out the horse stall and feeding the animals, with lanterns full of fire in a wooded barn with straw…,” Spence said. “We wouldn’t have a lot of five-year-olds do that nowadays. But back then, of course, that would be one of their jobs… Do their homework, have supper and go to bed.” That thought alone should scare hipsters back into their dimly lit basement suites and the comfort of their avocado toast. Speaking of avocado, if millennials think the
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Facing page: A Victorian Christmas Evening, planned for South Surrey’s Historic Stewart Farm on Dec. 7 from 3-7 p.m., is to include music, treats and crafts. (Randall Epp photo). Above, homes in White Rock are covered in snow during the winter of 1922. (Surrey Archives photo) INDULGE • Winter 2019 7 INDULGE • Winter 2019 7
The Hadden family, which settled in the same neighbourhood as the Stewarts, sits down for Christmas dinner circa 1910. There are very few Christmas-related photos of the Stewart family available, but this image provides a sense of what Christmas dinner would have typically looked like. (Surrey Archives photo) fruit is expensive now, I’ve got news for them. Pro: Christmastime was an opportunity to try exotic fruit and take a break from the mundane helpings of preserved … whatever. Con: An orange was considered exotic. “Special-occasion meals would be things that you didn’t have access to on a regular basis,” Spence said. “Oranges were like a real prize treat kind of thing because they come from down south.” On the topic of food, a late-summer and fall task would have been to preserve meats, fruits and vegetables for the winter. Pro: Summer was plentiful with fresh, organic vegetables, eggs and ripe fruit. Today’s consumers pay a premium for such luxury. Con: During winter, the menu consisted of the 1900s equivalent of Spam and pickled eggs. There were, however, fewer bills to pay – simply because services, such as water, sewer and hydro were not yet available. Pro: You’ll save money on your water bill. Con: In order to bathe, water was heated on a wood-burning stove and poured into a tub. Each family member would take turns bathing in the same water. Anyone who grew up as the youngest child knows exactly how that pecking order would pan out. The money saved on the water bill could be used for Christmas presents – except they didn’t bother purchasing gifts, they made them. While most Christmas presents were handmade, children from wealthier families in the 1900s had the luxury of looking through a Sears catalogue and making a ‘wish list.’ Pro: Christmas gifts had more meaning because they were made by hand. Examples provided by Spence include wooden toys and 8 Winter 2019 • INDULGE 8 Winter 2019 • INDULGE
handmade clothing. Con: Those gifts are lame and now we can buy things like expensive espresso machines (see the gift guide on page 20). Back in pioneer times, you’d have to foam your latte over an open campfire. Spence said there’s an oral history from the Stewart grandchildren that they did have Christmas trees, a tradition reportedly popularized by Queen Victoria. The family would harvest a tree in South Surrey, which was easy enough to do considering the area was a
Historic Stewart Farm volunteers decorate the farmhouse for the winter. (City of Surrey photo)
forest. “And then they would decorate it with things like fruit or handmade ornaments, paper cones that they could fill with nuts or candy. They would string popcorn and cranberries.” Pro: Edible Christmas tree ornaments. Con: There’s none. Although living life as it was 120 years ago is not high on my bucket list, I do find tremendous value in bringing children, or even adults for that matter, to Historic Stewart Farm to get a small taste of pioneer life. It may give people an appreciation for not only how difficult life was back then, but just how easy we have it now. To share that experience, the city has a number of winter events planned this season in addition to its regular farm operating hours. On Dec. 7, the farm is hosting a drop-in event titled Victorian Christmas Evening. It’s to feature music, treats and crafts. Participants will get the opportunity to make a lantern to take along on a carolling walk in the park and snap a photo with Father Christmas. An ‘Evening Carol Sing’ is to be held Dec. 14 from 6-7 p.m. and then again at 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the farm. It serves as an opportunity to bring the family for a rare after-hours visit with singing in Stewart Hall. Registration for that event can be made at 604-501-5100 or on the city’s website. The farm, which is to be decorated for Christmas, is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and heritage demonstrations are held Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. More information on the farm, including the upcoming seasonal events, can be found at www.surrey.ca
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ith summer a distant memory, those who revel in coldweather activities are likely keeping a close eye on the north shore mountains’ snowpack, digging out their down-filled jackets and eagerly anticipating the first opportunity for a winter hike, snowball fight or ice-skating. But there’s another breed out there who also can’t wait to venture out over the fall and winter seasons – they are the twitchers, the listers, the protobirders, the stringers, and any other term that applies to someone with a level of interest in the feathered friends that live in or visit our neighbourhoods, parks and waterfronts this time of year. Local birders say as the temperature dips, the opportunities to catch a glimpse of all manner of winged wonders multiplies exponentially. In fact, “this is now the perfect time of year” for birding, says John Gordon, a retired photojournalist and member of the Langley Field Naturalists. “This is the tail-end of the migration.” Boundary Bay – including Centennial Beach in Tsawwassen, Blackie Spit in Crescent Beach and east to White Rock’s pier and shoreline – is part of a geographic range deemed to be among Canada’s top-rated Important Bird Areas (IBA). The designation – there are approximately 600 IBAs in Canada – identifies the area as of international significance to birding populations, providing critical nutrients to birds on the Pacific Flyway; a major northsouth route for migratory birds that extends from Alaska to Patagonia and, according to Ducks Unlimited, “encompasses the most varied waterfowl habitats in North America.” Gordon said a visit to Mud Bay this time of year is eye-catching: “there’s as many as 100,000 birds there.” “Tens of thousands of ducks which breed in the Interior… come here in the wintertime, because it’s so mild,” he said. On any given day, the view
Top, John Gordon gets up close and personal with one of his photography subjects; above, a Northern Flicker. (Photos courtesy of John Gordon) from the end of White Rock pier can also be spectacular. Gordon estimates he saw around 1,000 birds there on a recent outing. The list of birds that can be spotted locally is extensive, from Pacific and common loons, to
western grebes, snow buntings, purple finch and snow geese. The grebes breed up around Salmon Arm and Castlegar, while the snow buntings migrate from the Arctic. For the buntings, “this is
summer,” Gordon said. “Where they live in the summer, it’s like winter for us. So, they’re coming here to get out of the cold.” He described their journey as “an incredible migration.” As with any other pastime, the range of interest and dedication in birders is almost as varied as the number of species of birds that are out there. Some spend just a few minutes gazing out their kitchen window at the flurry of activity that unfolds in their backyard every morning; others may have a favourite spot, or “patch,” they routinely visit, confident it will be rife with views of colourful plumage, and possibly a surprise or two; still others, the “listers,” invest countless hours every day in an effort to document as many species as they can – and are willing to travel great distances to do so. For Gordon, who lives on the Surrey/Langley border and names Peninsula naturalist Al Grass as his mentor, birding became his passion about a decade ago, shortly after retiring from 30 years in the newspaper business. He said after sitting at home “in a bit of a daze” for the first couple of weeks, he set out, camera in hand, for the George C. Reifel Bird Sanctuary in Delta. The image he captured of a hummingbird that day “just blew my socks off,” he said. “I looked at the picture (and thought), ‘I now know what I’m doing for the rest of my life.’” “Birds have this incredible pull on people, because they can do things people can’t – like fly, like swim underwater, like fly across the globe,” Gordon said. “Once you start getting into birding, it’s a lifetime pastime… good for the soul. “Some people call it ‘competitive meditation,’” he added, of the quest to add more and more species to personal lists of birds seen. Cathy Steele of Wild Birds Unlimited in South Surrey agreed that birding is a great way to get back to nature, and, that there is no shortage of places nearby to do it.
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“We have some great winter birding areas,” Steele said, naming the Serpentine Fen Wildlife Management Area as an example. Located in the 4900-block of King George Boulevard, the fen is a hot spot for migrating birds, she said. And, “if the winter is colder, sometimes there’ll be snowy owls there.” Steele named Crescent Beach as one of the best local areas to see shorebirds and seabirds, while Campbell Valley Park in south Langley boasts a bounty of songbirds; where chickadees can be coaxed to eat from visitors’ hands, and red-breasted nuthatches abound. Steele said the latter, with its short tail, sharp bill, black crown and quick movements – “the cheekiest little bird” – is among her favourite feathered friends. She also said that while studies out of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology indicate a decline in bird populations over the past 30 years, locally, “this is the busiest I’ve seen it in a long time.” Both she and Gordon said getting started down the birding path is simple and inexpensive. All that’s needed is a guide book – Gordon recommends The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, as well as the eBird app, to help track sightings – and a decent pair of binoculars. From there, the costs are up to each birder as to how far, quite literally, they want to go with their new pastime.
Snow geese at the George C. Reifel Bird Sanctuary. Gordon said he’s transitioned from a “cultural traveller” who has seen such wonders as the Taj Mahal and Venice, to one who plans his travels around birding. He’s now seen for himself approximately half of the more than 1,000 bird species that call Mexico home. On a decidedly shorter sojourn last month, he added a never-before-seen-in-Canada bird – the yellow-browed warbler, native to Asia – to his list, photograph and all, after investigating a sighting on Vancouver Island. It took two trips in the same weekend to catch the glimpse, and Gordon said he was far from the only person on the same quest. Birders came from across Canada and the U.S. for the opportunity, and for Gordon, at least, it was well-worth the effort. “I got the picture,” he said. It’s not unusual for feathered out-of-town
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“One could be from a four-year-old who has coloured and glittered North Delta woman is asking anyone with love in their (the paper), the next night (it might be) a gut-wrenching message,” said heart this holiday season to share a little of it with Schulte, who has taken it upon herself to personally read each missive members of the homeless community. before sealing it and sending it off for delivery. This year, for the third time, Erin Schulte is organizing In years past, she has provided enough cards for three consecutive the Christmas Card Collective – an international effort that nights. This year, her goal is to extend that to five nights. delivers festive greeting cards, inscribed with friendly messages, Knowing the cards are coming creates a real sense of to people sleeping in shelters during a time that should be filled anticipation among the recipients, she said. with family and fellowship. In its first year, the project sent out around 2,000 cards; in Christmas, Schulte said, is a season to spend with the people 2018, it was closer to 5,000. This year, Schulte has set a goal of you love and to reach out to others who may not have anyone doubling that figure. in their lives – not simply an opportunity to pile gifts under the Reading, sealing and bundling so many cards is an admittedly tree. exhausting process that, last year, kept her up some nights until “It’s about mending gaps and bridging distances and bringing 4 a.m., so this year, Schulte is looking for volunteers to help family together,” she said. share the workload. The project – which aims to deliver 10,000 personal, heartfelt Erin Schulte “Reading these cards is a beautiful thing, if you want to get greetings this year – came to life after Schulte spent five years organizer into the Christmas spirit. Some will make you bawl your eyes operating a pop-up soup kitchen on 135A Street in Whalley – out, others will make you laugh (at) what kids will write.” formerly the site of a large tent city. Each December, she noticed While she knew she wanted to make the season brighter for people that the people who lived rough along the strip would receive socks and who often have little to celebrate, Schulte found her efforts had an food and other practical gifts from various charitable groups. unexpected benefit. “I thought, wouldn’t it be lovely for them to receive cards from the “I didn’t think about the other side of it,” she said. community … to remind them they’re being thought of.” That “other side,” she explained, is the conversations that the project And so began the Collective. has sparked among children and their families – discussions about Started in the Lower Mainland in 2017, Schulte’s effort has now homelessness and the true meaning of Christmas. expanded to Alberta and Ontario, and into the U.S. This year, cards will It’s an issue that is “so out-of-sight, out-of-mind for kids,” she said. be distributed to local shelters, as well as in Red Deer, Calgary, Toronto, Schulte hopes the project will help to shift families’ focus away from Seattle and as far south as a mission in Los Angeles. so-called “wish lists,” which she compares to a grocery shopping list, Each evening in the days leading up to Christmas, as people are with parents simply spending money and ticking off items. welcomed into the shelters, they will find on their pillow an envelope containing a card with a personal message hand-written inside. continued on page 18 INDULGE • Winter 20192019 17 17 INDULGE • Winter
“I would like to see the commercial side of Christmas not be so important,” she said. “The week of Christmas, there’s nothing you can give me that equals the feeling of knowing people are opening up these cards.” She’s heard that some people carry the cards with them all year round, but one of her most treasured responses is a photo of a man’s hands holding an open card. It was sent to her from the California mission. This year, the Christmas Card Collective’s reach has extended even farther south. Word of the project has made it to Brazil, where a teacher read Schulte’s story online and contacted her via email. The woman, named Michelle, explained that her students had filled out cards for a similar project in that country, titled Make it Merry, only to learn they would not be collected and distributed this year. “Can I send you the cards the students have already written?” Michelle asked Schulte. Locally, classrooms and sports teams across the Lower Mainland have taken part in past years and, Schulte expects, will do so again this year. “There’s never been a group (that has participated) that hasn’t wanted to do it again.” She’s inviting social groups, youth groups or individuals – anyone who wants to get involved – to contact her.
Christmas cards – created by children – are to be delivered to homeless people in the Lower Mainland and beyond. (Contributed photo) Participants will be asked to fill out the cards and place them inside unsealed envelopes. It’s important that the messages being delivered are filled with love and kindness, so she won’t pass along any that haven’t been vetted.
Anyone who wishes to get involved in any capacity can email Schulte at erinlauren@ hotmail.com, or find her on Facebook (Erin Schulte). A Facebook page has also been created, called “The Christmas Card Collective.” Schulte expects to begin collecting the completed cards in the third week of November, and to continue until Dec. 5 or 6, in order to get them to their respective destinations in time for distribution. “I don’t get to see firsthand how they are received… but the messages I get back are so nice,” she said. She’s also grateful for the corporate support her efforts have continued to receive. Blank cards are this year being provided by Aline Greetings, while distribution is once more being provided by VanKam Freightways and Hercules Forwarding. While her own focus is on the Christmas Card Collective, Schulte noted that the need for fellowship reaches beyond the homeless community. “A lot of people are alone at Christmastime. There’s a lot people can do – bake cookies and knock on their door,” she said. “Christmas is not about anything you can possibly buy in a store. It’s about community – bringing family and friends together. “Bring humanity back – that’s my wish for Christmas this year.”
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by Nick Greenizan she joined the HBO show’s cast, which also stars another B.C. talent – Nelson’s Thomas Middleditch. Now, Crew – who is also an avid photographer with a website (amanda-crew. com) devoted to her work – will look to move beyond the Valley and into new roles. She recently shot a horror movie, Tone-Deaf, and though movie roles have been rolling in, she told entertainment website cheatsheet.com that she isn’t against jumping back into the waters of television. “I think TV’s doing some really, really cool stuff right now,” Crew said. “I feel like the landscape for TV is in a really cool space right now. When I started Silicon, we shot the pilot over six years ago and TV was a completely different place, so I’m excited to get back out into the field and see what’s out there.” Prior to some of her bigger Hollywood roles, Crew got her start on locally shot fare. Her first acting credit, for example, is as an unnamed
sorority girl in a 2005 episode of Smallville, much of which was shot in Cloverdale and Langley. Final Destination 3, too, was filmed in Vancouver, as were other films in which she appears – John Tucker Must Die and the TV series Whistler. More recently, Crew played Nikki in 2017’s Table 19 (starring Anna Kendrick) and Kikki Jones in the 2015 film Age of Adeline (starring Blake Lively, Harrison Ford and Ellen Burstyn), which was shot at various locations in Vancouver and throughout the Lower Mainland. In 2011, she also returned home to MC the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation’s annual gala. Back to present day – or, more accurately, the future – Crew is leaving her options open. “Everything’s on the table as far as what medium, format and as far as subject matter,” she told CheatSheet. “I’m just keen to do stuff that I’m excited about.” INDULGE • Winter 20192019 25 25 INDULGE • Winter
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Michael Broderick – the Kent Street Players’ Scrooge – has spent a lifetime in rehearsal for stage roles
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For much of this year, the 20-year Peninsula resident was acquainted with what he describes as “Churchill’s Black Dog” – the spectre of depression – and with good reason. In February, Jean, the love of his life and his wife for 63 years, passed away after a lengthy illness. Coming to terms with mourning her and the loss of her presence in his life – a process that is, naturally, ongoing – was compounded by a host of attendant details, including being executor of her will, and dealing with a plethora of necessary financial and legal documentation. Broderick ended up feeling overwhelmed, he said. While he has family – he and Jean adopted two sons and have three grandchildren – the process of grieving is ultimately an individual burden. Turning through an album of old photos of his beautiful blonde bride, Broderick is understandably misty. But recently, he said, he has begun to take better care of himself – thanks in part to the activity centre. He started a yoga class on Mondays, takes dance classes on Wednesdays and attends the regular Kent Street dances to rekindle skills he and Jean used to practise frequently in the ‘50s at the Commodore Supper Club, the White Rock Palladium and the old Hollywood Bowl in New Westminster. And he plans to get back to playing tennis – enjoying the workout of matches at the Centennial Park courts is another lapsed passion – by early next year. But he said his plans hadn’t included being part of the Kent Street Players, who stage two productions a year at the centre, and also travel to senior residences and other community venues in the Fraser Valley. “I only attended a meeting just to find out what they were all about,
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group. He took his first part, as the telephone repairman in Neil Simon’s Barefoot In The Park, on the understanding that it was a small, supporting role. But, as those familiar with the play can attest, the part – a middle-aged man who wearily, and repeatedly, climbs the stairs to the fifth-floor apartment of young newlyweds to fix their phone and becomes a humorously uncomfortable witness to their ongoing squabbles – is an absolute gift for any actor with an affinity for comedy. Broderick recalls he found himself slipping
easily into the world-weary attitude – and the New York accent – and getting big laughs with the part. From then on, he says, he was hooked – and was being presented with more and more opportunities to audition for other groups throughout the region. Although it was helpful that he was Britishborn and had that range of accents up his sleeve (particularly with the abundance of British farces and murder mysteries that have been a little-theatre staple), Broderick said he’s still mystified whence sprang his theatrical aptitude and understanding of how to tackle a role.
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“I don’t know why I do all these things I do,” he said. “It’s still a huge puzzle to me.” He still tells tales on himself about how green to theatre he was when he started. “I remember a writer for a community newspaper in Coquitlam interviewing me about the play and the character and then asking me about the size of my houses – I thought ‘what on Earth has that to do with anything?’ I didn’t realize she meant how large the audiences were – I didn’t know any of the terms.” Everything he knows about stagecraft came out of a book, he confesses, although he maintains the best teacher was simply getting up on stage and doing it. Certainly, there was little thought of acting when Broderick first came to Canada (in a marathon propeller airliner flight) in 1951 as a fresh-faced immigrant just one month after his 17th birthday. But there are elements of perseverance and adaptability throughout his early life history that hint at why he was such a natural for the stage. In many ways, it seems, he had been rehearsing all his life. Born to a working-class family in Leicester in 1934, he had a hard Depression-era childhood, with a father struggling with unemployment – and things didn’t get any easier when the Second World War came along, including the subsequent
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‘Austerity’ movement of rations and minimal consumption in Britain during the wartime, and post-war years. Broderick’s father, after service in the Grenadier Guards, was convinced that emigration to Canada was the key to a better life and a better future for his family. He established a foothold in 1949, with the family following later. Broderick, who had dropped out of secondary school to take a job, didn’t need much convincing – if he’d stayed in Britain he’d have had to register for the National Service. Later, with Jean’s help, he got his education back on track with make-up high school courses geared to university admission, and subsequently earned his engineering degree from UBC in 1965. His first employment in Canada couldn’t have been more typical of the period – he joined his father taking work at a logging camp at the north end of Lake Cowichan. During two years in the camps, he learned to do just about every lumberjack job, and can still rattle off all the terminology. In 1953, after he and his father were able to quit logging for safer, more congenial work (his father found a long-term job with the Lucky Lager plant in New Westminster and his parents rented a small house in Burnaby), he found himself looking for his place in life as a 19-year-old man with virtually no social skills.
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n 2019, going “green” continues to be an increasing trend – the norm, even – as more and more hybrid and electric cars hit the road; efforts to compost, reuse and recycle mount; and more thought is given to the impact the choices we make can have on the world around us. With Christmas now clearly in sight – both in stores and, for many, at home – the drive to tone down the commercialism and waste of special occasions in favour of a more meaningful, less (environmentally) impactful celebration also continues to gain traction. So, just how difficult is it to go green for the holidays? A quick peek at a couple of websites will get the ball rolling. ‘Eco-cosy’ tips shared on bcgreencare.ca range from cutting down your own Christmas tree at a local tree farm, or – for those who live in smaller spaces – picking up a Norfolk Island pine for year-round use; to giving eco-friendly gifts such as gift certificates, transit passes or reusable water bottles. Another green gift idea is that of companionship or service. These can also run the gamut, from committing to tackle a chore for a neighbour who has struggled to accomplish it themselves; to sharing a weekly meal with a senior – related or not – who could use the extra company; to signing up as a regular volunteer at an animal shelter, food bank or other organization that strives to do good work on a shoestring budget. Metro Vancouver, meanwhile, offers a host of ways to “create memories, not garbage,” at
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by Tracy Holmes www.metrovancouver.org Noting that 30 per cent of what gets sent to the landfill every day is food, the regional district’s suggestions to reduce that particular form of waste include making a list of food you need for the holidays before shopping, then buying only what’s needed; and check your cupboards first, too, to make sure you’re not buying what you already have. Also, buy food in bulk to reduce packaging; buy local; bring your own shopping bags; and, avoid shopping on an empty stomach. (The latter is something most of us have done before – and, just like indulging in that third slice of grandma’s Christmas fruitcake – almost always regret.) Christmas dinner itself can also be ecofriendly, according to The Environmental Magazine. In addition to shopping local – which reduces the carbon footprint of your food – emagazine.com says cooking methods such as grilling your ham outdoors will save energy, while going a step beyond and ditching meat from the meal altogether will help reduce pollution that results from meat-production processes. Where gifts are concerned, Metro Vancouver encourages the use of reusable materials such as fabrics and newspaper for wrapping purposes, and re-gifting thoughtful items that were received in previous years, but, for whatever reason, never got used and have been sitting in a drawer or closet ever since. “If you’re worried about giving a gift back to the gifter, keep a notepad in the drawer and jot
down who gave it to you,” information on the regional district’s website recommends. Giving the gift of experiences – ziplining, for example – is another less-waste idea. While the options for going green this Christmas – or on any given day – are endless, the space in which to share them is not. So, in honour of an environmentally friendly holiday season, here’s a new, slightly extended take on the 1942 Christmas classic, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, to wrap things up. First crooned by Bing Crosby, hopefully it will serve as a catchy reminder to think green. I’m dreaming of a green Christmas One where everyone thinks twice With fewer disposables, and more decomposables, Oh, wouldn’t that be nice? I’m dreaming of a green Christmas With every e-card that I write May your days be trash-free and clean And may all your Christmases be green I’m dreaming of a green Christmas One with fewer incandescent lights Where homemade gifties are super nifty And bamboo straws make drinks just right I’m dreaming of a green Christmas With every present that I wrap May that old newspaper not be a waster And trash bins not overflow with crap I’m dreaming of a green Christmas One where everyone believes May it be trash-free and way more clean And may every day ahead be green
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