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Created: Dec. 3, 2000
Updated: May 7, 2008
by Documents that Work

The Gabriola Historical and Museum Society  publishes SHALE, which is edited by Nick Doe. 

This webpage contains a list of all topics covered to date in the journal, with links to brief summaries of the major articles.

Go to:
• the homepage for information about contributing to or obtaining SHALE.
• the back-issues page for a list of articles published in all the issues to date, with article summaries.
• the authors' page for information about the authors, with links to the summaries of their contributions.

INDEX OF TOPICS

Cartography and placenames

NOTE: There was a discussion of street names on Gabriola and Mudge in the "Maybe you can answer this..." section of the first couple of issues of the journal. There was also a discussion of Beacon Hill and Coal Mine Bay in "Placenames" in Issue No.16.

Alcalá Galiano's sketchmaps of Gabriola

by Nick Doe (Issue No.1)

Coast Salish placenames on Gabriola

by Nick Doe (Issue No.2)

George Vancouver visits Gabriola

by Nick Doe (Issue No.14)

Malaspina Galleries-- what's in a name?

by Nick Doe (Issue No.8)

Malaspina's lost gallery

by Barrie Humphrey (Issue No.10)

The origin of Gabriola's name

by Nick Doe (Issue No.13)

A Russian map of Gabriola-- 1849

by Nick Doe (Issue No.3)

Seagull Island?-- the derivation of "Gabriola"

on-going research report by Nick Doe (Issue No.1)

Who named Saturna Island?

by Nick Doe (Issue No.18)

Climatology and meteorology

Dendrochronology (and paleoclimatology)

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.8)

Frozen harbours

by the Museum History Committee (Issue No.8)

Gabriola warming-- a changing climate?

by Justine Pearson (Issue No.5)

Gabriola's greenhouse gases

by Nick Doe (Issue No.5)

Why does water in the sink drain away counterclockwise-- and why should we care? (Coriolis force)

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No. 5)

First nations, petroglyphs, and archeology

Aboriginal burials on Gabriola Island

Summary by Dr. Brian Chisholm (Issue No.5)

Dr. Chisolm summarizes the findings of A. Joanne Curtin in her research comparing burials in rock shelters and middens.

Alignment and geometry of petroglyphs at DgRw229

by Nick Doe (Issue No.17)

Alignment of the petroglyphs at sites DgRw224 and 234

by Nick Doe (Issue No.17)

Beryl Cryer and the stories she collected

by Dr. Loraine Littlefield (Issue No.6)

Coast Salish placenames on Gabriola

by Dr. Loraine Littlefield (Issue No.2)

Context of Gabriola's archeology

by Nick Doe (Issue No.15)

Coyote

a legend of the Shushwap (Issue No.8)

Earth, great flood, and sky

a legend of the Tsimshian (Issue No.8)

Flow but one way

a legend of the Coast Salish (Issue No.8)

The Haida myth

investigation of a tall tale by Nick Doe (Issue No.2)

Hul'qumi'num-- Gabriola's first language

by Nick Doe (Issue No.3)

Hy-Altz-- the sun god

by Tzea Mntenaht (Mary Rice) with Beryl Cryer (Issue No.6)

Last fight of the Cly-Altw

by Jennie Wyse (Ts'tassia) with Beryl Cryer (Issue No.4)

A most unusual petroglyph

by Nick Doe (Issue No.10)

New radiocarbon dates for False Narrows

by Nick Doe (Issue No.16)

Observations for the curious at sites DgRw193, 198, and 201

by Nick Doe (Issue No.17)

Observing the winter solstice at DgRw228

by Nick Doe (Issue No.17)

Old dogs

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.3)

An old fence-- how Indian reserves came to Gabriola

by Lynda Poulton (Issue No.5)

Paleoastronomy at petroglyph site DgRw230

by Nick Doe (Issue No.17)

Petroglyphs and equinoxes

by Nick Doe (Issue No.14)

Petroglyphs-- discovery and demise

editorial by Nick Doe (Issue No.13)

Petroglyph studies in the cemetery

by Nick Doe (Issue No.17)

Reflections with Ellen White, medicine woman of the Snunéymux^w

a report of an interview by Ruth Loomis (Issue No.3)

Stars in stone-- Ursa Major, Gemini, and Orion petroglyphs at DgRw 230

by Nick Doe (Issue No.18)

The Snunéymux^w village at False Narrows

by Dr. Loraine Littlefield (Issue No.1)

The tabla of Toba Inlet

by Nick Doe (Issue No.11)

Visions cast on stone-- a stylistic analysis of Gabriola's petroglyphs

by Amanda Adams (Issue No.17)

The world

a legend of the Tinglit (Issue No.8)

Geology and paleontology

About pointy rocks

by Nick Doe (Issue No.7)

Alligatoring on the beach

by Nick Doe (Issue No.12)

An ammonite for SHALE-- ruminations on museums and fossils

by Nick Doe (Issue No.6)

A bigger, better ammonite for SHALE

by Nick Doe (Issue No.12)

A report of the discovery of what is probably a Pachydiscus ammonite fossil in the late-Cretaceous Northumberland Formation on Gabriola.

"Brown stuff" weathering and manganese in your drinking water

by Nick Doe (Issue No.14)

Context of Gabriola's archeology

by Nick Doe (Issue No.15)

Curious nodules

by Nick Doe (Issue No.9)

Formation of Malaspina Galleries

by Nick Doe (Issue No.9)

Gabriola's submarine-fan formations

by Nick Doe (Issue No.7)

Geology of Gabriola's roads

by Nick Doe (Issue No.9)

Great balls of stone-- concretions

by Nick Doe (Issue No.9)

How Gabriola came to be

by Nick Doe (Issue No.7)

Just tell them it's Tafoni

by Nick Doe (Issue No.2)

A brief research note on the "honeycomb" appearance of sandstone at the tideline.

Inoceramus vancouverensis-- big clams

by Nick Doe (Issue No.4)

More about runnels

by Nick Doe (Issue No.10)

Old growth?-- a fossilized tree on Whalebone Beach

a very brief research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.3)

Polygonalling (for alligatoring fans)

by Nick Doe (Issue No.16)

Sandstone and shale - Gabriola's origins

by Nick Doe (Issue No.1)

Spheroidal weathering

by Nick Doe (Issue No.13)

Steinpilze--rock mushrooms

by Nick Doe (Issue No.7)

Trace elements

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.18)

Ups and downs of Gabriola-- sea-level changes

by Dr. Steven Earle (Issue No.5)

What Gabriola is made of

by Nick Doe (Issue No.7)

What makes holes in sandstone

by Nick Doe (Issue No.9)

Groundwater

"Brown stuff" weathering and manganese in your drinking water

by Nick Doe (Issue No.14)

Geochemistry of Gabriola's groundwater

by Dr. Steven Earle and Erik Krogh (Issue No.7)

Groundwater budgets

by Nick Doe (Issue No.14)

Groundwater notes

by Nick Doe with Norman Windecker (Issue No.11)

More…groundwater notes

by Nick Doe (Issue No.18)

Trace elements

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.18)

Local history

See also Pioneer Settlement. The short stories and tall tales section of the journal also contains items of interest. Some of the book reviews may also be pertinent.

Around the island in 1853

by Nick Doe (Issue No.1)

Brickyard research notes

new discoveries about Chinese workers and Thomas Morgan add to the history of the brickyard published in Shale 15

by Jenni Gehlbach (Issue No. 18)

The four schools of Gabriola

by June Harrison (Issue No. 11)

Gabriola after the lights went on

a research note by E. Joyce White (Issue No.16)

Gabriola arrival

a reminiscence of the 1970s by Anna Leather (Issue No.16)

Gabriola's coal-mining connections

a research note by Lynda Poulton (Issue No.16)

The Gabriola ferry Eena, 1955-64

by B. Parker Williams (Issue No.2)

Gabriola's industrial past-- the brickyard

by Jenni Gehlbach (Issue No.15)

Island sanctuaries-- early mixed-race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands

by Dr. Jean Barman (Issue No.2)

Lost Nanaimo-- taking back our past

by Dr. Jean Barman (Issue No.8)

Malaspina's lost gallery

by Barrie Humphrey (Issue No.10)

More about runnels

by Nick Doe (Issue No.10)

Newcastle Island's turbulent past

by E. Joyce White (Issue No.4)

The net shed at Page's

A research note by Phyllis Reeve (Issue No.2)

Page's marina-- sixty years ago

by Phyllis Reeve (Issue No.6)

Shopping in Nanaimo in 1857

by Barrie Humphrey with Carol Boyce (Issue No.12)

Some records from Hudson's Bay Company Day Books.

Surf Lodge

by E. Joyce White (Issue No.8)

Math and science

It's about pointy rocks

by Nick Doe (Issue No.7)

The art of voting scientifically

by Nick Doe (Issue No.4)

The pH scale to measure acidity

by Nick Doe (Issue No.10)

A research note within an article about runnels.

Sand, firewood, and the stars at night-- some interesting facts

a research note by Mr. E. L. Wisty as told to Nick Doe (Issue No.2)

Why does a mirror reverse left-to-right but not up-to-down?

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.18)

Why does water in the sink drain away counterclockwise and why should we care?

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.5)

Miscellany

Alligatoring on the beach

by Nick Doe (Issue No.12)

Malcolm Lowry on Gabriola

by Phyllis Reeve (Issue No.18)

Polygonalling (for alligatoring fans)

by Nick Doe (Issue No.16)

Two islands-- Gabriola and Manhattan

by Barrie Humphrey, Shelagh Huston, Phyllis Reeve, Kit Szanto, Jack Ruitenbeek, and Nick Doe, based on an idea of Catherine Humphrey (Issue No.6)

Natural history

Ecological theatre on Gabriola-- managing the forests

by J.P. (Hamish) Kimmins (Issue No.16)

Gabriola's trees-- a brief history

by Nick Doe and Paul Smith (Issue No.2)

Orcas at Page's

by Phyllis Reeve (Issue No.12)

Scotch broom-- the golden gangster

by Phyllis Fafard (Issue No.4)

The wild gardens of Ruxton Island

a research note by Anne Gartshore (Issue No.5)

Oceanography

Summer tides

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.5)

The tabla of Toba Inlet

by Nick Doe (Issue No.11)

Two tides a day?

by Nick Doe (Issue No.6)

Ups and downs of Gabriola-- sea-level changes

by Dr. Steven Earle (Issue No.5)

Winter tides

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.10)

Pioneer settlement

Captain B. A. Wake and his family

by Lynda Poulton (Issue No.5)

The Chapple family

by Gabriola Museum, History Committee (Issue No.3)

Come and gone; Come and gone (again); Come and gone again-- this time for good?; Come and gone yet again

research notes by Barrie Humphrey (Issues Nos. 2, 5, 6, & 8)

The brief appearance on Gabriola of Robert P. Dombrain(e), Dombrane, or Dumblane.

A French note

a research note by Nick Doe (Issue No.2)

The strong French Canadian presence on BC's coast in the early nineteenth century.

Gabriola's industrial past-- the brickyard

by Jenni Gehlbach (Issue No.15)

Included in this article is information about the families of preemptor and farmer George McGuffie and of pioneer farmer and business man William Nairn Shaw.

Island sanctuaries

by Dr. Jean Barman (Issue No.2)

Early mixed-race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands.

The LeBoeuf family

by Lynda Poulton and Barrie Humphrey (Issue No.1)

The Martin family of Gabriola

by Dr. Donald Martin (Issue No.5)

Researching pioneer family history

by Barrie Humphrey (Issue No.3)

The Roberts family of Mudge Island

by Lynda Poulton (Issue No.8)

Stories and tall tales

Bruhn moments

by Aileen Adam (Issue No.4)

Coyote

a legend of the Shushwap (Issue No.8)

Earth, great flood, and sky

a legend of the Tsimshian (Issue No.8)

Flow but one way

a legend of the Coast Salish (Issue No.8)

Gabriola arrival

a reminiscence of the 1970s by Anna Leather (Issue No.16)

The Haida myth

an investigation by Nick Doe (Issue No.2)

Hy-Altz-- the sun god

by Tzea Mntenaht (Mary Rice) with Beryl Cryer (Issue No.6)

Last fight of the Cly-Altw

by Jennie Wyse (Ts'tassia) with Beryl Cryer (Issue No.4)

A journal entry

by Mary Rose Lam (Issue No.3)

Memories of a one-room schoolhouse

by Hazel Windecker (née Cox) (Issue No.5)

The sad tale of Jankowski's horse

as told by Frank Hackwood (Issue No.1)

The story of the Euclataws

by Miss Marion Gordon of Nanaimo (Issue No.12)

A prize-winning essay originally published in 1890.

When the ferry went duck hunting

as told by Frank Hackwood (Issue No.1)

The world

A legend of the Tlingit (Issue No.8)