Interior of Victoria Rice Mills showing rice packaged in mats and Chinese worker. 1889. Victoria, B.C. Reford, Robert W. Library and Archives Canada. Chinese worker at Victoria Rice Mill, Victoria, B.C., c. 1889. Robert Reford. Library and Archives Canada. (Note that Thursday is Luddite Photo Day at B.P.A.)
Cal Poly Scene (photo credit: Kay McDonald) Friends, Sorry about the longer than usual gap between posts. I was traveling last week and put many hours of work into writing which I was planning to put up mid-week. Because Google has made some changes to Blogger recently, and the bugs aren’t worked out yet, the [...]
NOTE that this post was inspired by a late summer visit to Quebec, Canada in 2010. A visit to this 73 square mile, 18-mile long island named Île d’Orléans near Quebec City in the Saint Lawrence River is enough to give anyone small farm fever. Oh, but for a piece of land on this island [...]
