Thunderbird on a Royal Canadian Mint bullion coin In preparation for the recent Winter Olympics, the Royal Canadian Mint released a number of commemorative coins, three of which were $5 silver bullion coins (often known, after the “normal” reverse design, as “Silver Maple Leaf” coins–or “SMLs”). I particularly liked this one, which depicts on its [...]
UPDATE: The contest is now over; thanks to all who voted for me. I took down the embedded links below because the scripts in them seemed to be causing the blog to load slowly. – ORIGINAL POST: Note: this is a more informal post than is usual for this blog. I’ve entered a wacky contest [...]
Rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, BC During the recent 2010 “Winter”* Olympics, the Vancouver Art Gallery was open for free to the public; my wife and I saved ourselves about $37 by visiting the VAG, which also housed the BC Pavilion, at this time. The VAG has a no photographs policy, but [...]
Exterior of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, BC Inside this small, unassuming building is a physical space that is his home to one of Vancouver’s oldest Anglican congregations and a number of artworks and artefacts of some significance. This church, which sits on Burrard Street in Vancouver’s downtown, was unlocked for the Olympics, when I [...]
Pierre Karlik’s 1980 work “Struggle for Survival: 9 Low Relief Sculptures of Games on Tooth” While in the Northern House pavilion during the recent 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, I spotted this sculpture by First Nations artist Pierre Karlik. It proved to be one of the more popular artworks in Northern House, and all sorts of [...]
Obverse of the famous $1 million gold coin produced by the Royal Canadian Mint One of the most popular exhibits at the recent 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver was the Royal Canadian Mint Pavilion, which housed, in addition to the medals shown in the preceding post, the largest traveling coin in the world. I had [...]
2010 Winter Olympics Medal co-designed by Corrine Hunt As mentioned in the preceding post, I and several thousand other people lined up recently to see and touch the gold, silver, and bronze medals for the 2010 Winter Olympics. I’m not particularly a sports person, but partly because these medals were reputed to be so British [...]
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