writer and rebel her problems in life were very much created by herself so many of the things she did were regarded as eccentric all peculiar for goodness sake the turmoil and triumphs of a woman who lived for her [Music] art [Music] good evening I'm Gordon pinsent today Emily Carr is one of Canada's most celebrated artists but she was a woman out of step with her own time a rebel in an age of Victorian correctness an artist dedicated to work not Hearth and Home and she was an eccentric who camped out in the woods with a managerie of animals including a pet monkey Emily Carr's passion spilled onto the canvas in Lush Landscapes and Powerful totems and it's there in her journals The Voice compelling and exuberant tonight the inner life of the woman behind the artist [Music] Emily Carr is one of Canada's best known and Best Loved painters and authors yet in her time she was a rebel and an outcast and her art was not appreciated here we have a picture of Emily Carr today all that has changed and it's sort of what will we describe this motion here that she uses sing okay oh she's the most important artist for the gallery there's no question about it I mean this is the great treasure of the Vancouver AR Gallery is the collection of Emily car paintings was here uh she loved animals and even had a pet monkey named woo who rode around in her shoulder it is extraordinary that so many generations of people have been excited by Emily Carr my students today get excited about her she was fiercely independent a feminist before the term existed eccentric and enigmatic sometimes out of sorts she was Emily Carr a woman of All [Music] Sorts she's a very human person with all her doubts and with all her characteristics and personality and she has an audience of course for both her books and for her painting a woman of two talents Emily Carr said that Victoria was more English than the [Music] English she was born and lived most of her life here she was buried here too in the family plot in Ross Bay Cemetery the house in which Emily Carr was born is a heritage site dedicated to her memory more than a museum it's a lived in home for curator Jan Ross and her husband and two young children visitors include the merely curious but for those who care deeply about Emily Carr her birthplace is an important starting point on a journey of understanding this talented complex contradictory woman and artist yes she talks about being born in this house in the room that's right above us on a cold cold December day that she took her time to be born that the father had to go out in the snow almost waste deep to get the Midwife for her birth I was born during the December storm contrary from the start the wind blew trees moaned the storm in my life has never quite LED I've been tossing and wrestling with it ever since I think that she felt that all her life that struggle that she did not Bend to the Conformity of the time Emily Carr was from a well-to-do family her Father Richard Carr was an Englishman adventurer who made his first fortune in California during the 49er Gold Rush there he met his future wife Emily Saunders who ventured to California at the age of [Music] 14 Emily Carr never learned the Family secret that her mother was born illegitimate in 1863 Richard Carr settled in Victoria with his wife and children soon he had a flourishing Warehouse business on Warf Street he was proud of his home and the life he'd carved out of the Canadian wilderness but his strict English upbringing would have a lasting effect on Emily father was Ultra English a straight Stern autocrat no one ever dreamed of Crossing his will mother loved and obeyed him because it was her loyal pleasure to do so I obeyed him from both fear and [Music] reverence Lizzie and Alice spent their whole time playing ladies and I was sure I didn't want to be one of those I was much more interested in learning how to draw than in learning how to pour te Lizzy was four years older than I was called bigger Alice was called middle and I was named small not only because I was little but because no one thought I knew much about anything when Emily was young she was the apple of her father's eye the other girls were very girly and um displayed not a great deal of interest in in um spending time walking around the property they were content to play with their dolls um Emily was really more His companion I wanted to draw a dog I sat beside Carlos and stared at him for a long time then I took a CH stick from the gr split open a long large brown paper sack and Drew a dog on the sack my married sister who had taken drawing lessons looked at my dog and said not bad father spread the drawing on top of his book Put on his spectacles looked and said H mother said you are blackened with charred wood wash it was years after her father's death that Emily discovered he'd kept her childhood drawings he'd been mild mly encouraging but the rest of her family was not Emily's sisters were dismissive of her art sometimes openly so it was a pattern that lasted for years it was only a short while after our picnic that mother died her death broke father we saw then how he loved her how alone he was without her none of us could make up to him for her loss after her mother's death there was a traumatic incident between em and her father an incident she later described as the brutal telling her relationship with Richard Carr was was very very close she was obviously the the favored daughter she was certainly the most attractive and it was Emily who stood at the front door when Richard Carr came home it was Emily who frequently walked partway to the warehouse with him so there was a very very close relationship of course course until this incident which she recalled in in old age which she referred to as the brutal telling until this incident occurred when she was probably just reaching purty and it probably set the course for her sexual behavior from then on I couldn't forgive father I just couldn't for spoiling all the loveliness of life with that beastial brutalness of explanation filling me with horror instead of gently explaining the Glorious beauty of reproduction the Holiness and joy of it we don't know exactly what he said and this has become a very controversial thing in the Emily car literature you know could he perhaps have molested her could this have been some kind of Act of sexual abuse I don't think so whatever the brutal telling was car was so upset and offended that she expressed her anger with her father and refused to talk to him and he as a result became very angry with her and this developed into a quarrel which was never healed it was a real struggle for Emily after her mother died to try and find a place within the family her mother had really um been a buffer between her and the rest of the family and the strict ways when her father also died and Edith really took control it became almost intolerable for Emily the petty disputes really mounted in her eyes she sought out to escape that by going to Art School in San Francisco and then once she was there discovered her great love of art sanan Francisco was a interesting moment in her life she didn't particularly work hard her work was not exceptional it certainly did shape her as an artist certainly within her own mind Emily's brother dick who had always been frail was being treated in a California tuberculosis sanatorium with no son to carry on the family business the car sisters fell into what was then called reduced circumstances in the winter of 1893 Emily was summoned home from San Francisco with the family fortune depleted she was told she had played at Art too long although still treated as a child and scorned by her sisters Emily was now a grown and beautiful woman and when she came back to Victoria after sancisco she then set up shop as it were um she began to teach and she taught in her own home in the summer of 1898 Emily sailed on the steamship wipa to visit her sister Lizzie who was working as a missionary in the isolated Village of ulet on the west coast of Vancouver Island perhaps the family hoped that Emily would be inspired by her sister's example instead it began a relationship with Native people with whom she made friends and socialized Charmed by this high-spirited tomboy they gave her a name CLE Wick The Laughing one houses and people were alike at ulet wind rain forest and sea had done the same to both they were soaked through and through with sunshine I found a man with Sy aathy and a sincerity I'd longed for but had rarely achieved among my own people she was just delighted to find how open they were how friendly and giving they were to her it wasn't really that their art seized her at that point in time it was really more them as a people that attracted to her her few months in ulet was really the uh first time she talked to them befriended them found that she had in a very kind of childlike way something in common it gave her a theme at that time for her art even though the the the tiny miniature watercolor sketches that she executed at ulet are really not Innovative drawings or watercolors in any way but for her this was the first step in a certain direction summer in ulet was an overwhelming experience for Emily the native people had touched her deep deep ly changing the course of her life and her art forever when summer ended she gathered up her sketches and watercolors and boarded a ship heading back to Victoria on board she met Mayo Patton the ship's Purser well M padon was a was a dear friend was a close friend she talks about holding hands with him under the table he was on her doorstep proposing to her but uh it was not to be come was very ambitious as an artist she wanted to be a professional artist in the full sense of the word she wanted to compete with the man in her generation it was difficult to become a professional woman and expect to be married and car had a very serious moment in her life when someone um proposed to her and pursued her and she knew if she refused him she would probably be on the Shelf at that time she decided against marriage and she decided that her career would come first Emily wasn't in love with mayo padon and rejected his marriage proposal inclined to flirt in those days she claimed to love a man who kissed her during a spring tennis party that was enough to convince Emily that she now belonged to him but he jilted her a true loving relationship would always elude her I had deliberately set out to kill the love that had overpowered me I did it in self-defense it was sapping all the life from me in 1899 at the age of 28 Emily went to England to study art she worked hard but she was often ill and felt out of place and she missed her beloved West the stress became too much for her she suffered a nervous breakdown and spent 18 months in a sanatorium during the long months she spent there she kept an illustrated Journal she later called pause a SketchBook I think that her great hope of becoming a painter of note within herself all fell apart in England she put all of her chips into in into one hat and it just didn't work out 5 and a half years in London and I had nothing to show for it goodbye to my high hopes to my youngness I Was [Music] Defeated on my way home I stopped off in the Caribou District of British Columbia oh the goodness of my West again her spirits lifted when she reached the West she'd missed so much now she was more rebellious than ever no woman had ever ridden cross baddle before in Victoria Victoria was shocked my family side cross battle too bad instead of England gentling me into an English Mist with nice ways I was more me than ever pure me to make en's meet Emily became a cartoonist when she returned from England showing imagination and wit in dealing with political social and women's issues then in 1906 at the age of 35 she moved from Victoria to Vancouver to teach art it was the right move her many students adored being in her classes and the Halls echoed with laughter and on weekends she would paint usually in Stanley Park where she produced some wonderful early paintings she put on exhibits and sold some of her work these were good years among the happiest of her life but her interest in painting native culture was about to be renewed while Emily was in Vancouver teaching she took a trip to Alaska with with her sister Ellis and as the boat came back down the coast she saw many villages the poles were falling over dilapidated and it was then that she decided that she wanted to as she said Salvage this Art Car herself was tremendously aware of the rapidity of development the way in which White Settlement was taking up British Columbia and she therefore realized that things were changing very rapidly in Native Villages and in Native culture we passed many Indian villages on our way down the coast the Indian people and their art touched me deeply by the time I reached home my mind was made up I was going to picture totem poles in their own village setting as complete a collection of them as I could she didn't go to the museum to sketch it although she did later for her own uh rugs and pottery but when she went uh up to the Villages it was really to see it within its own community you must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line you must be most particular about detail and proportion every poll in my collection has been studied from its own actual reality in its own original setting and I have as you might term it being personally acquainted with every pole when Emily Carr decided to document native totems and use this imagery in her paintings she had no idea that decades later this would become a contentious issue for some native people we always talk about em cars expropriation um you know when did it start when did it stop uh you know it's same thing with all the mass media that that expropriates from native culture Lawrence Paul yuwell Upton is a native artist whose paintings have been exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery alongside those of Emily Carr in an odd way there were some things that worked together and other things that she just didn't get it then I think that that was probably because she was just there as an observer of the things that she was allowed to see she had a very romantic view um I am a very direct result and being and that's the difference living it and watching it are two different things Al together my my watercolor sketchings of this period were accurate studies of the declining way of life for the Haida swia and quako Villages of British Colombia but the Stark reality of Indian art baffled my white man's understanding she wasn't successful in terms of getting a response from the settler Community but at that time she herself felt that native people were more sympathetic to what she was doing than her own white compatriots and when she painted in The Villages she made a practice of pinning up the paintings she had done because they were interested I think Native people were pleased that she was doing that and she always said steadfastly said that it was for the native people as well that she was doing this and for their children I had been schooled to see outsides only not to struggle to pierce what was this new art Paris talked of it trained bigger broader seeing Emily had discovered the art of the posst Impressionists from her teaching income and the sale of some paintings she raised enough money to go to France to learn more about it and this course was the mecca of art it was where matis Picasso all of these legendary Figures were working in and she attached herself as frequently happened with with anglophone artists to the anglophone community studying with Ferguson studying with Francis Hodgkins studying with felon Gibb various people who had a knowledge of impressionist post-impressionist painting and passed it on to her this artist felen Gibb um told Emily C that yes she was quite right to think that northwest coast native artifacts were very remarkable and that they were in fact works of art and Emily Carr had simply found them very fascinating and now it she was confirmed in the view that they were not only remarkable but also beautiful and aesthetically very interesting in 1912 when she came back she thought she should be as accurate as possible but the force of that French training the time with felen Gibb and Francis Hodgkins and things like this kept coming through so you saw these gray totem poles that you know became purple on the edge or green on the edge or something like this and that in a certain way as a documentarian was her undoing I spent many days that summer in the Queen Charlotte Island struggling to paint their poles the Indian himself identified completely with this totem but I could not do that nevertheless I knew that my work had improved in my older canvases things were carefully and honestly correct my newer ones went deeper in trying to grasp the spirit underlying primitive art I had totally deserted the traditional school for that of the post [Music] Impressionists by 19 193 Emily Carr had completed over 200 paintings and sketches of what she saw as a dying native culture she mounted an exhibition of the work in Vancouver hoping that the British Columbia provincial government would purchase the entire collection but it was not to [Music] be from artist to landl when life and times returns [Music] catch the road to Excellence spotlighting the dreams and goals of our Olympic athletes as they set their sights on the Neo Winter Olympics forever committed to Excellence these vignettes are presented by Canadian dairy products official sponsors of the Canadian Olympic team the road to Excellence presented by the Dairy Farmers of Canada and Royal Bank Financial Group Rob Boyd was the last member of the fame crazy Canucks however after three career World 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Bond medicates absorbs and sues I like Gold Bond Gold Bond Works Gold Bond really works triple action Gold Bond more than a powder it's medication [Music] her idea was that the government should buy this collection as a collection as a historical record but this was a failure it was felt that these brilliantly colored strongly painted pictures favored the color too much to be truly accurate to what they were depicting so that that still flat there was a depression going on many programs were cut one of them was the purchase of her collection another was the building of a gallery there had been uh plans to build an art gallery in Victoria but this was one of the things that went along with the the 1913 recession whether Emily's collection was rejected because of the recession or because her modern style was unacceptable it caused her to give up on her career aspirations of being a painter the provincial government's decision not to purchase her collection made her decide that she had to earn a living in some other way rather than begin teaching again she moved back to Victoria she had received an inheritance and she was able to actually build a four sweet apartment H World War I had broken out out and Rental revenues dropped dramatically Emily was forced to convert her Apartments into a boarding house she later named the house of All Sorts I've had to become cook and charwoman for the lot of them and I loathed every minute of it no I was not nailed I was screwed to the house of All Sorts Twist by twist demanded that I forget that I ever wanted to be an artist and buckle down to being a and Lady Emily carad after the uh her move back to Victoria had a period where she didn't paint at all and that was probably most likely during the war then she began to paint again in the early 20s and to exhibit her work but her production is very low and what is of Interest I think for those paintings of the early 20s is that none of them dealt with the Aboriginal theme of her uh major campaign of 1912 and 13 for 15 years years Emily Carr the artist was Emily Carr the landl she took Refuge from her tenants and found peace in the apartment attic on the generous slope of the Attic Roof I painted two Indian eagles they were painted right on the underside of the roof shingles their great spread Wings covered the entire ceiling of the attic the heads of the Eagles tilted upwards in the Bold unafraid inquiry I love to lie close under these strong Indian symbols they made strong talk for me as my Indian friend would say these paintings still exist in the Attic of the House of All Sorts which today is a private residence no effort has ever been made to preserve or publicly display this work Emily always loved animals and raised cheep dogs in the backyard of the House of All Sorts to earn extra money she had a pet monkey named woo who went everywhere with her Society and Victoria was not amused they found her behavior very peculiar I feel that we're all entitled I mean we're all peculiar for goodness sake I mean what what is the standard by which you can judge what people should be should we carry something in a suitcase and if you want to carry it in a wheelbarrow and and have say two dogs and a guinea pig and a few things falling out the side well if that's a convenient way for you you to do it so many of the things she did were regarded as eccentric you know such as taking her buggy filled with some of her managerie when she went shopping and so on just a practical thing really she used to wear a hairnet which had a band sort of around here and she'd put that on I think people asked her why did she have that because the wind blows a hair in my eyes so that was that you know I think she used her eccentricity as a kind of Fort behind which she could do her thing you know a kind of protection like like a like a creature building a a shell a carpas within which they could find their their space to create what she had to create just an incredibly strong woman strong or not Emily might have remained an unknown struggling artist if it had not been for the exhibition on West Coast art native and modern organized in 1927 by the director of the National Gallery Eric Brown and folklorist Marius barau their decision to feature Emily's paintings would end years of isolation and become the single most important event in her career as an artist so it really wasn't until Brown got the idea of uh putting on his exhibition that car was invited and invited at the very late stage but of course when Eric Brown saw Emily Carr's painting he was totally bold over and of course she ended up dominating the exhibition the exhibition wasn't as important as really meeting the Group of Seven meeting Lauren Harris Harris and Carr had this great spiritual Affinity they struck a cord from the beginning oh god what have I seen where have I been something has spoken to the very soul of me oh these men this group of seven what have they created lovely spaces filled with wonderful Serenity what language do they speak these silent a filled spaces wait and listen you shall hear by and by her meeting with the Group of Seven was tremendously important for her because she discovered she had so much in common with them she discovered an art community where artist shared goals and could give one another Mutual support and encouragement and stimulus so they accepted her into that art community and she found personally a very important Mentor in Lauren Harris Carr and the group shared a deep commitment I think to creating a modern Canadian art they also felt that the landscape was an essential element of the spirit of Canada seeing Harris's work she saw yes that's what I want from my own work not that she wanted to paint Lake Superior not that she wanted to paint exactly the same Motif but it was a feeling it was a sense it was a a union with the [Music] landscape with the 1927 exhibition Emily Carr had become known in Canada's art community composer Murray adaskin sought her out I first met Emily car in 1935 here in Victoria we were visiting friends and we were coming to the end of our very pleasant and happy visit here and I said to my friends I would like to greet Emily Carr and pay my respect to her so they took me there to her house there was a lady on her knees pulling out dandelions and I went over to her and I said does Emily Carr live here and she said yes I'm Emily Carr well I was quite shaken by that here was a stoutish elderly lady with that ban around her head and uh but very Charming voice and my wife was with me at the time uh she took us in to her house in the big living room at that time her chairs were up on the ceiling and she let them down with a pulley and and she dusted them off with her her apron and and she said you know I hate a cluttered room success as a writer when life and times returns meet Mar and Kan thinks security doesn't just come up and tap you on the shoulder thinks it's something you 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look semic Cubist and I mean that sort of shift that takes place um is something that you know just shows how rapidly she was evolving at the time and how excited she was about you know discovering this this material again she's still reworking to some extent the earlier project which was to document the Aboriginal art in its original settings but ultimately this I think became a dead end for her and as haris said what you're doing is trying to make art out of art by depicting the totem poles and the carvings you are in fact painting art what you really should go to is nature she went back to the forest first just making trips in staying wherever she could and then buying this crazy little box this sort of Caravan that she called the elephant and she would have this hauled out to the woods here was the Caravan up on a hill all the animals were were out doing whatever they wanted to do and Emily car and her student and my wife and I sat on a grass slope and we just talk for hours and that was that's her B wonderful and then she took us into the Caravan to show us where her various animals slept each one had its own box above she said this is Woo's room and this is the bird and this is the cat and this is the dog and so on and they all they all knew their own place I've never I don't remember ever seeing uh a mixture of animals that treated each treated each other in a way that very polite people treat each other when she was in the forest certainly in the 1930s she reached that high that perhaps few of us will ever reach and I think you see this in the work there are magnificent lyrical free oil on papers they're wonderful magical Works which lift and swirl and move everyone who views them [Music] yesterday the pain that has come and gone intermittently for many years came and stayed Dr mcferson diagnosed it heart I have been aroused about from a babe going pmell after what I want how can I learn to walk no more in the Glorious woods with my sket back on my back she asked me if I would help with her panels she did most of her paintings on wood panels most of them the big ones and she said if I would help her get them sorted in order and uh I said i' be delighted to do that after we've been doing this for some time she said what one would you like you pick anyone you like to have for yourself and I said that I know exactly which one I would like and she said why did you pick that one and I said because I think it's the happiest one of all of your paintings that I've seen it's very happy and she said turn the painting over you'll have to look very carefully but I think it'll still be there and I did and there was tiny little writing and it was scratched happiness she was so pleased that my reason for choosing it was because I found it a happy painting Emily could be outspoken and rude sometimes her criticism of other artists bordered on petty jealousy in the 1930s she met a young Jack shadul later a prominent British Columbia artist she wasn't friendly saying more work and less talk will make him a better artist I think she thought Jack was a young punk you know and too wordy one day he and his friend John Mcdonald had gone to visit her and had a pile of these oil on paper oil on paper paintings in her studio and she said um they could each take one if they want they could have their pick I think it was for $10 a piece and Jack who had his eye on a book can you believe it on rafhael that cost $10 and he opted to get the book the paintings which Emily Carr offered that day for $10 were later valued at more than $100,000 as she became less able to you know go out in her Caravan and and paint and walk around like that she did she always wrote but then she became very interested in writing and I felt that her writing uh it was so much what she was I mean you couldn't read a sentence and not know that it was Emily who wrote it I mean she was very very individual in her expression of things the writing was camont painting in many ways and in fact she she often wrote to the forest before she painted it so this was these were these were two forms of art that existed side by side eventually not until the 1940s late 1930s did Ira dillworth from the the CBC have a look at her work and and and really encourage her some of Emily's CLE Wick stories about her early visits to Native Villages were read over the national radio broadcasting system of the CBC tonight we present cwick the writings of Emily Carr I was sketching the last two Mondays I have been on the air and listen to my own thoughts coming back to me like Echoes out of space Dr Cedric reads them beautifully I went there in one of its empty times in a drizzling dusk when the Indian agent dumped me on the beach in front of the village he said there is not a soul here I will come back for you many many Canadians were introduced to Emily Carr through those readings they had no idea who she was they had no idea that she was a painter but cwick the writing in it the turn of the subject matter at that point in time which was in the the time of the second world war captured the imagination and the hearts of many Canadians and of course what's interesting I think is that Emily Carr's uh first uh National reputation really came as a writer not as a painter when she was awarded the governor General's medal for her first book C wick um and before although she was certainly known as a painter U the a this award was much uh greater uh recognition than anything that had happened earlier iard elworth was uh a very talented uh man very well versed in literature and saw Emily's stories very much in the Raw stage and if you look at the manuscripts in the National Archives of Canada you will see that he did a lot of work on them there's a lot of red ink dripping from the stories and Carr accepted all of his changes and it's interesting to note that critics who have criticized her for appropriating Native Indian culture should really look at those manuscripts very closely because many of the things that she's now been criticized for saying were in fact written by IR K records in her story in CLE Wick that the missionary asked her to use her influence with the rasis to make sure they sent their children away and Emily car's reply was why should native people will send their children away to become ashamed of their people's tradition she thought that was a very bad idea and she did not like the residential schools and people haven't known that about Emily Carr because that passage many passages in which she specifically criticizes missionary attitudes towards the native people have been censored from cwick they've been cut out by the Publishers between the first edition and the schools Edition so that the current editions of P Wick that you buy in the shops don't have those passages in them this is I think one of the reasons that people don't realize how committed Emily car was to justice for the native people and two the native people's Viewpoint and how difficult life was being made for them in her books Emily Carr described her life as a struggle yet she gave two different versions for the cause of her hardships I changed my mind about Emily Carr's struggle story primarily because because after reading her autobiography A Very Public Work called growing pains in which she charts the rebuffs of her life the easterners didn't like her the people in Victoria didn't like her or her paintings even vancouverites didn't like her she then went on simultaneously in her journals to write about how unhappy she was how her problems in life were very much created by herself were a product of her own temperamental failings years of illness since several heart attacks had taken their toll this is the last picture taken of Emily Carr during an outing at her beloved Beacon Hill Park in Victoria a short while before she died on March 2nd 1945 there was some truth to the myth of the unrecognized artist only 50 people attended her funeral fighting over the spoils when life and times returns and now we join Larry on vacation for the carrier indoor weather report Lisa the weather is just beautiful here it's a balmy 22° perfectly clear and just a hint of humidity I love it here that sounds wonderful and tell our viewers where did you find such great weather I went to the only place I know of where I can truly predict perfect weather which is I'm at home carrier custom made indoor weather Mandalay entertainment presents Brad Pit in the story of a man who pushed himself beyond all borders get that tested himself beyond all limits and found himself at the top of the world seven years into tiet opens Wednesday in select cities opens Friday everywhere the circumference of the world is almost 40,000 km think about it our new Malibu can go around the world four times before T out hey a cow look at wow cool hey there's thato 160,000 km before its first scheduled tuneup the new malibo from [Music] Chevrolet if you're looking for the truth get the latest issue of TV Guide in this week's xfiles edition you'll incover classified information about the exciting new season of TV's most intriguing show you'll get an in-depth review of last season's twists and turns plus a revealing glossery of recurring characters the entertainment is out there it's all in this week's exile gu on sale now to be fair the best way to judge something new is to Simply compare it to what has come before Head to Head Apples to Apples except in this case it wouldn't be fair and not so simple because this time what's new is not an apple introducing the daring new Audi A6 imagine how the apples must feel [Music] his future was decided he would follow in his Father's Footsteps as his father had before him his life was planned to The Last Detail except nobody planned unlock I Edward vi8 do hereby denounce the throne for myself and for my descendants History television a compelling new network about the people and events that shaped our world coming October 17th History television it's about time really really like your music One aspiring artist I'll get my way two rival labels this is the richest deal we have ever offered a group I've got to see a band about a contract not ailia your pocket Platinum Rock CBC October 12th browsing the web for a while I founded you through the internet but you can get burned I got angry mom of one girl Russian brides in cyberspace she told me you brothering my daughter Tuesday night at 8 on [Music] Marketplace Emily's difficulties in life did not end with her death she had left the royalties from the published manuscripts to Dorth and English but it was not quite clear who would receive the royalties for the postumus Publications I think a close reading of the will would suggest that Alice Carr the last surviving sister of the car family should have received these royalties had Alice as perhaps should have had she received those royalties then they would have gone to the queen Alexandria salarium for crippled children in Victoria to whom Alice left everything after Emily Carr's death Lauren Harris of the group of seven one of the executiv of her will divided the several hundred paintings in her Studios into three categories the Emily Carr trust collection to be donated to the people of Canada paintings to be sold to fund an art scholarship and those that were simply to be discarded and destroyed there's a lot of work to be done to resolve the mystery of of the collection at her death what happened to it why did Lauren Harris select what he selected why did he destroy what he destroyed so if Harris had had his way we wouldn't know any of those pictures subject matter of France of England you know still lives she painted in San Francisco aren't of any interest now the cynic would say he's interested in pictures that showed the influence of Lorden Harris but I'm not going to be that nasty to him um I think he felt that you know her true voice was about Canada 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