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Welcome to "The Beat Goes On" Gallery. Select an image to enlarge it and learn more. Enjoy exploring the story of Ladysmith and the music that helped shape our community.
Two photographs show first nations canoes racing. One photograph is a slightly fuzzy black and white image showing five canoes paddling away from the photographer. The lower photograph is in color, shows six first nation canoes. The water around the canoes in both photographs is churned by the intense activity of the paddlers.
Map showing southeastern Vancouver Island and adjacent mainland in green with sea in blue overlain with the boundary of the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Stz’uminus First Nation outlined in brown.
Rectangular book cover, grey-green colour with a grainy image of a person, head bowed and arm at side partially ‘washed out’ to reflect the effect of psychedelic drugs, standing to the right of the wording 85 GRAMS ART WILLIAMS: DRUG CZAR in the upper left corner and the words DARYL ASHBY at bottom left.
Black and white photograph of man crawling out of an underground passage. A three-story barn-like structure is in the background about 100 meters behind where the man emerges.
A steel hatch at the top of a vertical culvert with ladder formed the entrance to Art William’s underground laboratory for the manufacture of the psychedelic drug MDA, 1977.
Colour photograph of an extensive barn-style three-story building in the shape of a cross, the centre portion of which is constructed of cement and cement block with the ends and upper stories made of wood.
Black and white photograph of a middle aged craggy featured man wearing a cap and heavy woollen cardigan holding a wooden archery bow in his left hand.
Painted mural of young girls in colorful dresses standing in front of a shop entrance, Dwyer’s Confectionary, licking 5c ice cream cones while holding placards protesting against 8c candy bars. The left 1/5 of the mural shows a partial page of a song’s music score proclaiming ‘we want a 5 cent bar’.
Black and white photograph of a group of children standing outside a store called WigWam, some licking ice cream cones, holding placards saying variations on the wording ‘Don’t be a Sucker, Don’t buy 8c bars’.
A caucasian male and a Chinese man and woman talking in a dining room. A Chinese wall fan is on the wall behind them.
A smiling woman holding a violin from the 1800s.
Black & White album cover with close up of man and woman touching noses.
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