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For the indigenous people of North America, maps have always been carried in the heart and mind. In the era of colonial exploration, the first maps unlocked the landscape for others who followed, guiding us where to go, and pinpointing where the rich resources for extraction would be.

In this era of google maps and GIS tracking,  hand-made, hand-drawn maps remind me that landscape is still a place for the soul to roam.

The Submerged Canoe

November 4, 2019 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 6 Comments

The Sinixt, or Arrow Lakes Tribe, have been in the news lately. After a decade of legal battles over the right to hunt in the Canadian portion of their territory, their case will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada. It’s hard to imagine why, in an era of cultural reconciliation for Indigenous people, […]

Filed Under: Home page, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Tagged With: Columbia River, Kettle River, Sinixt

Nothing that is big or grand starts out that way

May 20, 2019 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 12 Comments

In the past month, I have twice threaded my way east through the Selkirk and Purcell mountains to travel across the mysterious landscape of river-beginnings. In the Rocky Mountain Trench, the Kootenay River starts on the West Slope of the Rockies, tumbling down to wind along the broad valley. Here, too, begins the great Columbia […]

Filed Under: Home page, Imagined Maps, Landscapes, Maps, Travel, Upper Columbia River Region Maps, Visual Notebooks, Water

River Love, Part 2

September 30, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

    My map of the Incomappleux basin here, with help from my imagination.  What this map cannot record is the quantity and persistence of the rain that fell during my trip into the heart of the valley to see the old trees. What the map does record is the relative amount of remaining, untouched […]

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Sophie Morigeau’s Landscape

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  Sophie Morigeau was the daughter of a French-Canadian free-fur trader and a Cree-mixed blood mother, born in the beautiful valley of the Columbia River headwaters in 1836.  While many attempts were made to “civilize” her through Catholic Mission schooling, marriage and other conventions, Sophie couldn’t fit the mold and became a rare free-trader like […]

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Upper Columbia Region – imagined

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  This is my own map of the region where I live – without roads, borders, cities, towns or other features. Imagined landscape!

Filed Under: Imagined Maps, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Maps

Saffron Peak in Purcell Range

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  I was reading The Purcell Range of B.C. by Mr. Thorington and came across his marvelous description of Saffron Peak and the river flowing out of that yellow mountain.  Maps.  Exploring.  Choices about which way to go.  All of these prompted my journal to explode with possibilities…..

Filed Under: Imagined Maps, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Maps

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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