Contributing Writer
Writes the literary, character-driven stories — the people and scenes that give the city its texture.
The man who laid out the University of British Columbia's grounds also drew the plan for a small terraced garden on the Deer Lake slopes. Thousands walk his larger work without learning his name; in Burnaby, the smaller work survives as roughly 0.6 hectares of plantings above the water.
Brenda · 5 min read
A single English industrial name, Barnet Mill, sits over an older Squamish name that describes a yearly act of the living world: the arbutus shedding its bark on the rocky shore of Burrard Inlet.
Brenda · 5 min read
For 48 years, Canada's most celebrated modern painter worked from a skylit studio on a Burnaby mountainside, transforming wartime trauma into butterflies and leaving behind the community arts centre that bears his name.
Brenda · 10 min read
Black History in Burnaby: What the Archives Don't Tell Us — and What the Community Is Building Now
Brenda · 8 min read