Women of the Sooke Region: From Pioneers to the Modern Wonder Woman Women of the Sooke Region: From Pioneers to the Modern Wonder Woman The Sooke Region Museum and Visitor Centre
This audio clip is an excerpt from an interview by Sooke Region Museum Collections Manager Montana Stanley on Aimee McIntosh and her work and life in Sooke. Montana: […]
This audio clip is an excerpt from an interview by Sooke Region Museum Collections Manager Montana Stanley on Mary Alice Johnson and her work and life in Sooke. […]
This video clip is an excerpt from an interview by Sooke Region Museum Collections Manager Montana Stanley on Trena and her life and career. Montana (not heard): You […]
Trena is wearing a traditional T’Sou-ke woven cedar headband. When these were worn years ago, they were tied off in a knot, like a scarf, at the ends […]
Medea has been involved with community groups such as the Sooke Community Association, and other events and fundraisers in the region.
One’s rank in karate is represented by different coloured belts. A black belt is the highest level one can reach.
The nail driving competition was a crowd favourite at the All Sooke Day event.
After having worked at ALM Organic Farm, Marika and Keeley went on to have careers informed by Mary Alice’s teachings on food cultivation.
From left to right: Anchor – Eliza Phillips, Alice Gordon, Mary McDevitt, Violet Doran, May Hatcher, Myrtle Whittier, Bertha Muir, Jessie Phillips, and Daisy Margison.
Hand bucking can be defined as a person cutting through a log with a saw, in this case using a crosscut saw (doing so with a chainsaw would […]
Lorna was also a leader in the longboat community on the west coast of North America, who competed for the King of Spain’s Cup in towns like Port […]