IDEA:
The idea of this blog is to collect location-specific stories, memories, narrative, facts and investigations from your personal experiences of living in Victoria, BC, Canada. I will collect these stories and attach them to Google Earth - so when people view the interactive map of Victoria, your memories will appear, infiltrating and contributing to the collective portrait of the city. Landscape retains history. Walk down any familiar street and your memory is constantly triggered by mundane and significant events that relate directly to that location. Write your story, find the exact location that inspired it and post it here.
example: "There is a mailbox on Richardson, just east of Cook, that I ran my truck into last summer the day after my father had a stroke and two days before my cat died. It was red and I didn't see it coming. Location 48*25'10.34" N x 123*21'15.84" W." anonymous contributor
INSTRUCTIONS:
SIMPLE: for those with little computer experience
Near the bottom of this page you will see a heading Post Your Story Here. Below this you will see the link Comments. Click on Comments.
This will lead you to a new page where you will be prompted to Leave a comment. Write your story in the text box provided. Before you finish, make sure you have visited Google Earth to find the exact coordinates (48*25’09.17” N - 123*21’20.29” W) of the location you wrote about!! (Read the GOOGLE EARTH section below for further instructions on how to do this). This enables me to post your story directly on Google Earth enabling the general public to read it.
Below the text box, you will need to Choose an Identity. If you do not have a Gmail or Blogger account, choose Anonymous. This choice lets you bypass the more time consuming task of signing up before posting comments on the blog. Feel free to include your name and email address with your story; you don’t have to stay anonymous. Now that you have written your story, included the location’s coordinates and maybe your name and contact, go to the bottom of the page and click Publish your comment. A new page will appear stating Your comment has been saved and will appear in a moment. You are finished. Now post another!
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GOOGLE EARTH: You will need to download the Google Earth program onto your computer. Do not worry. It is safe and well worth it.
Go to http://earth.google.com/ - or use the Google Earth link on the top left side of this blog. Now in the top right corner is a green button Download Google Earth (free). This takes you to a new page, read the instructions. In the blue box choose what kind of computer you have – Windows 2000/XP/Vista if you have a PC, or Mac OS X if you have a Mac. This will download Google Earth to you computer.
When it is finished, open it up. In the top left corner enter a location you are looking for (2439 Epworth St., Victoria, BC) and click Search. The program will fly over the earth and zoom into your location. You can zoom in and out and move the map around to find your exact location. When you have found it, leave your mouse there and look to the bottom of the page. You will see your location’s coordinates (Pointer 48*25’09.17” N - 123*21’20.29” W). Write these down and add them to your Comment on this blog.
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ADVANCED: for those with slightly more computer skills
Now that you have thought of a location and a story, open Google Earth and find your exact location with Search. When you have found it click on the Placemark icon (orange push pin) on the top of the page. An icon will appear on your location and a text window will open, enabling you to title the Placemark and write your story. Now when you move over the Placemark on the map your story will appear in a pop up window.
Right click on the Placemark and choose Email… This will open a window instructing you open Gmail or Outlook Express, follow the prompts. Now an email is generated with your Placemark attached as a KMZ file. Send this to me and I will embed it permanently on the GE map for others to view. Email me at: dedicated.to.me.and.you@gmail.com
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There is a mailbox on Richardson, just east of Cook, that I ran my truck into last summer the day after my father had a stroke and two days before my cat died. It was red and I didn't see it coming.
48*25'10.34"N
123*21'15.84" W
Walking in the park, Beacon Hill Park, it was dark, and I was really tired, however I wanted to take part in the annual festival called the Lantern Festival. I wandered, with two companions, from event to event. It was like participating in a medieval celebration. There were hundreds of people wandering in the dark, laughing, talking, walking hand in hand,or alone. There were clowns, magicians, figures appearing and disappearing in the dark. It was a magical night with lights flickering everywhere, appearing behind trees, carried by dark figures, or hanging from silhouetted objects. We wandered and swayed with the swelling crowd until we grew weiry and the light disappared. We made our way back to our vehicle and home, emerging from a magical mysterious night, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
There's an old road that I like to run on, that winds through a leafy deciduous forest behind this lake. I named it Nottingham Forest one day running with a friend and I think of that name every time I pass through.
48°31'41.02"N 123°24'25.54"W
48°25'22.98"N 123°21'13.73"W
When I returned home from half a year in S.E. Asia one of the first places I went was into the used bookstore here, just to smell the books. I was happy to be home. I had missed it more than I knew. Six years later, when I left again to Asia, the store had closed.
There’s a buoy here in the summer that I like to swim out to and wrap my legs around and float with my head in the water. I took my girlfriend there and she loves it too, and we figured out how we can both wrap our legs around it and float together.
48°30'50.97"N 123°23'31.60"W
48°26'29.38"N 123°17'59.90"W
I laid in the rain one night with two friends after we dropped acid, on a rock in Uplands Park. It was fantastic. I remember peeing in the bushes later, and it was great too.
Rain Rain Go Away ! To-day's headlines read: Three D's of March: dark,damp and dreary. We all know in Victoria that we live in the best place in Canada,but a little sun sure would be nice.Oh well out we go umberellas in tow, and it's not really cold, so whats a little water ! Come August we'll be glad of it. As I walk along my usual jaunt I can't help but notice the beautiful blossoms on the trees, the wild Daffidols on Dallas Road and throught Beacon Hill Park are stunning, standing so tall in the wind and rain.The neighbourhood gardens are all showing Spring bulbs ready to burst in all their glory. Like the pure white Peacock that strutted through the park the other day, I too am proud to live in such a lovely city.
Dorothy Day, (Fairfield) Victoria BC.
48*24'30.66"N - 123*21'53.08"W
I was riding my bike along this stretch of Dallas Road last October when an early 90's blue Toyota or Honda backed out in front of me. I glanced off the rear door and bounced along the pavement. I heard the window open and a voice said, "Are you ok?"
"No," I gasped. He drove away. None of the witnesses got his license number. I am still looking. . .
elephant
I had never noticed before that this island looks like an elephant or a woolly mammoth or a rhinoceros.
48°25'41.21"N 123°17'55.89"W
+ MMD
My first boyfriend in Victoria lived in the house beside this park. We hid inside the canopy of this tree and carved our names in a heart.
48°25'45.87"N 123°18'49.05"W
Modernist Architecture
My first exposure to early modernist architecture.
48°26'16.24"N 123°19'6.27"W
path
There is a path here that I used to ride my bike along. I had just moved to the city from the country, I was 9. The path led from my house around the corner to Carnarvon Park. It is paved but overgrown and you can look into people back yard. I liked this path it let me escape and explore. 48°26'13.95"N 123°19'6.69"W
jimmy chicken
It is funny you think that it looks like an animal becasue it is called Jimmy Chicken Island. I saw it catch on fire one summer, when they lit the Oak Bay Tea Party fireworks from it. We all just sat and watched it burn.
48°25'39.40"N 123°17'53.80"W
Things I have done at Willows Beach in Oak Bay. Living near to Willows Beach for many years I strolled the beach many times, in the heat of the summer sun, in the rain, in the evening, under the stars, and in the falling snow. I have walked there alone, with dear friends, with my kids and husband, and with our dog. I have build sand castles, collected stones, swam, paddled our canoe, and hung upside down in a kayak while being instructed on how to escape an overturned kayak. I have joined the crowd during Oak Bay Tea Party days as well as the mid-way in the park. I have enjoyed many family picnics in the park and hopefully will enjoy many more.
There's a tree on Hillside inbetween Quadra and Blanshard by a school. I remember one spring evening, on our way to the Roxy, my old boyfriend leaping onto the branch, shaking the blossoms and me spinning around in a rain of petals. When I see that tree I remember that moment in slow motion.
When Victoria celebrated it's 125th birthday there was a daylong event at Beacon Hill Park. About 6pm just as the band was warming up on the hill south of the big flag pole we all noticed a pod of killer whales swimming by straight ahead of us, close to the shore. It was as if they swam by to salute Victoria's 125th birthday.
The Key
I live on Fernwood and I often go for a walk south, down fernwood and other streets, to Dallas Road at the ocean.
On a day that could have been a better day, I was coming back from this walk in the evening when something joggled my mind and caught my attention. As I passed Yates street while walking home on Fernwood, I noticed something gleaming on a telephone pole. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a key hanging off a nail on the pole, one of those nails left from an old poster. It looked a lot like the key to my basement... but mine was on my keychain. It was a curious place to find a key, but I figured someone found it on the sidewalk and left it there, hoping its owner would find it.
That was 6 months ago. The key is still there. I see it now every time I walk that way. In fact, I am almost compelled to check and see if it is still there. I now feel a certain odd bond with this key. How long will it stay there? Does nobody else see it? Perhaps I'm the only one who knows it's there. I wonder if anyone else has noticed it and left it there too, as I have done, waiting for it to be taken away... or if it will be gone one day when I look for it.
Now you can go see it for yourself... and maybe you'll take it.
48°25'28.74"N
123°20'42.75"W
30 March, 2007
Skinny Dipping
A very beautiful woman I was working with at a restaurant in Victoria brought me here one night, after we'd been out for a few drinks after work. She was perhaps slighty less than stable, really fun and totally sexy. She said she wanted to go skinny dipping, and drove us here in her car. I could tell there were a few other young people further down the lakeshore in the darkness, but I wasn't really paying attention to them. I'll always remember looking up as I finished getting undressed on the shore, and seeing her silhouette backlit in the moonlight as she stood naked, up to her knees in the water.
48'30'47.29"N 123'23'23.89" W
Skating Shorline/Spectrum
My mom worked for a while as a career counselour at this school, about 20 years ago. My brother and I would ask her to take us there on the weekend, when there was no one there, so we could skateboard in the parking lot. It had this wicked paved slope with parking blocks all along the top. Totally fun. My mom would hang around and take photos of us pulling tricks. I still have all the photos.
Ouch!
When I was 15, I was living with my dad in Edmonton, but that summer my girlfriend and I flew out to visit my mom in Victoria. One day we were walking along the path near Dallas Road at the bottom of Cook Street, and I put her up on my shoulders. Unfortunately, there was low-hanging tree branch over the path, and I miscalculated our combined height and walked her right into it. It was a pretty thick branch, and she caught it right on the forehead. I remember hearing the thunk, and feeling the vibration of it, but it took a second for me to figure out what had happened.
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