Emily Carr Chronicles Walk, Talk & Tour in the Afternoon

When Emily Carr wasn't travelling to Ucluelet, Alaska and Haidi Gwaii or attending art school in San Francisco, England and France or giving art classes to children in Vancouver, she spent the rest of her life in various residences within four blocks of each other where three of her older sisters also lived. Emily died three blocks from where she was born at Carr House, now a national and provincial historic site.

Put on some comfortable shoes and come to experience the life, art and legacy of Emily Carr in the James Bay area.

We'll start the tour with a short presentation on Emily Carr at the covered outdoor patio at For Good Measure at 12:30pm, before we walk the half block for the guided tour inside Carr House that starts at 100pm. Then, we will tour her sister's residences a block or away and check out the House of All Sorts where Emily unhappily ran a rooming house from 1916 - 1936 (and wrote a book about her travails).

We'll visit Beacon Hill Park, the crowning jewel of Victoria's park system, where Emily often sketched and painted. The park played such an important part in Emily's world that her sister Alice built a stone bridge in her honour set in one of Emily's favourite painting spots. Then, we'll visit the Emily Carr statue and learn about the sculptor and then on to the James Bay Inn where Emily died on March 2, 1945, so we can check out the numerous Carr reproductions on the first two floors.
Our last stop will be back at For Good Measure about 2:45pm for coffee and a chat about your experiences.

Upon registration,you will receive:

• a short but detailed biography of Emily Carr you can read before or after the walk
• a short video about Emily Carr to warm you up
• some Emily Carr quotes we'll read along the way
• access to the text of four books of autobiographical short stories she wrote were published her lifetime (including Klee Wyck, The Book of Small and The House of All Sorts, Growing Pains)

Upon attendance, you will receive:

• Emily Carr quotes to read aloud as we walk from location to location

The walk and talk will take approximately 90 minutes, from 12:30pm to 3:00pm and will start and end at For Good Measure.

Feedback on the Emily Carr Chronicles Walk, Talk & Tour on March 23, 2024

"Great introduction to a local artist and writer whose paintings are now selling for millions of dollars!"
"Highly interactive, fun way to learn about Emily Carr's life. Many thanks."
"I was surprised to hear that Emily Carr was at one time more famous for her writing than her art and was awarded the Governor General’s Award for her writing. Interested to learn that her writing was edited to remove her obvious respect and friendship with the First Nations peoples, that in her first trip north she stayed with missionaries and white people and on her next trip she stayed with the First Nations peoples in their villages and communities and her great and long lasting friendship with Sophie Frank"

Here's where we will meet up, have a short presentation on Emily Carr before we walk a block to the Carr House to arrive at 1pm, and here's also where we will return to about 2:45pm to wrap up the event with a coffee and a chat.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

For Good Measure Grocery & Coffee Shop, 579 Niagara Street, Victoria, Canada