SHALE Articles

Updated May 15/2019

SHALE Journal of the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society
ISSN 1492-6946

Current Issue: SHALE 28, June 2014
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SHALE 28, June 2014 abstracts

Humphrey B. & Poulton L., The Gabriola School District—1872–79, pp.2–36
Source document database for this article
Power J., The Women's Institute, pp.37–48
Reeve P., More wharves in Silva Bay, pp.51–53
White E.J., The history of the little log church, pp.54–56.

NOTES:
Petroglyph at the garden party—DgRw253, pp.49–50
Ice-age Gabriola An introduction to online articles, p.50.

SHALE 27, December 2013 (A history of Gabriola's wharves special issue) abstracts short version

Gehlbach J., Gabriola's wharves–an introduction, pp.2–4
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's wharves–Northumberland Channel, Green Wharf, Coats Wharf, pp.5–17
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's wharves–The Maples and Degnen Bay, pp.18–27
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's wharves–Silva Bay, pp.28–36
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's wharves–the North Shore, wharves in Peterson Bay, Taylor Bay, Clark Bay, and along the Twin Beaches peninsula, pp.37–45
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's wharves–Descanso Bay, Farmers Landing, Atrevida Wharf, Ferry Terminal, Emergency Dock, pp.46–56.

SHALE 26, November 2011 abstracts

EDITORIAL: José María Narváez as a young man.

Doe N.A., The Brachyopoda of Gabriola Island, pp.2–9
Doe N.A., Simon Gaviola's family connections, pp.10–18 Gabriola (Gaviola), Harwood (Camino), & Savary (Romay) Islands. Further evidence of the origin of Gabriola Island's name
Lundy, Doris, Places of power - speculations on archaeological motifs in British Columbia rock art, pp.19–30
Doe N.A., The geometry of honeycomb weathering in sandstone, pp.31–60. Why the holes (tafoni and caverns) created when salt weathers sandstone have the shape, diameter, and depth that they do, and why the holes eventually form arrays of polygons.

SHALE 25, March 2011 abstracts

Reeve P., Japanese-Canadians in Silva Bay, 1918-42, pp.3–8
White E.J., Gabriola's heritage farm machinery, pp.9–12
Doe N.A., A small inland midden DgRw-251 at False Narrows, pp.13–15
Doe N.A., Gabriola coastal placenames (including Mudge), pp.26–30. A better reference is Coastal names
Doe N.A., Non-marine weathering of sandstone and mudrock, pp.31–48.

NOTES:
The drought of the 1930s. Not the first or last multi-year drought, p.18
Augusts on Gabriola. Newspaper items from 1878 to 1930, social events and wildfires, pp.18–19
Island old timers. Listed by Martha Holm, p.20
Beautiful Gabriola A magazine write-up from 1961, including a Martha Holm story about her grandmother and a cougar pp.20–22
Charts from the Malaspina expedition. Two little-known charts from the late-18th century, pp.23–25
Time for a beer. Not your usual archaeological find. Gabriola settler Thomas McGuffie's empty perhaps, p.25.

SHORT STORIES:
Gabriola childhood, by Bev Wolsey, p.16
A whale of a story, by Martha Hoggan, pp.16–17.

SHALE 24, June 2010 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Diatoms, diatomite, and diatomaceous earth.

Borden C.A., Diatoms on Gabriola, pp.5–10
Gehlbach J., Unearthing the past -- the diatomaceous earth mine on Gabriola, pp.11–30 short version
Doe N.A., The geology of Gabriola's diatomaceous earth, pp.31–36
Humphrey B., Clam curio -- the piddock, with William Flewett, pp.37–39
Hebda A. & Jones G., A boring time at Brickyard Beach, pp.40–42.

NOTES:
Minimizing greenhouse gas -- bridge v. ferry. p.42–43
Greenhouse gas emissions from Gabriola. Early estimates were too high, p.43
Ticks. Not the dogs' best friend, p.44
Gabriola's demographics in 1901. And 2006, pp.45–46
Fish and babbling brooks. Trout fishing on Gabriola? pp.46–47
Mussel invasion at False Narrows. The clam beds become mussel beds, temporarily, pp.47–48
Varnish clams. Newcomers to the island, pp.48–49
Ferry memories. From the good old days, pp.49
Land pre-emption on Gabriola and More pre-emption notes, pp.49–54
One-way and other unusual tides around Gabriola. pp.54–56
Crop circles and petroglyphs. But no aliens please, pp.57–59
A heteromorph ammonite. A strange one, p.60.

SHALE 23, March 2010 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Controversy.

Doe N.A., Gabriola's changing climate and its effect on groundwater, pp.7–18
Doe N.A., Electromagnetic radiation and health, pp.19–33
Doe N.A., Salt-weathering of Nanaimo Group sandstone, pp.34–56.

SHALE 22, January 2010 abstracts

Gehlbach J., Withey's shipyard in Silva Bay, pp.3–24 short version
White E.J., The South Gabriola public hall 1913-79. The history of Gabriola's community hall, pp.25–29.
Doe N.A., Charting Gabriola -- the survey of HMS Egeria, 1904, pp.38–48.

NOTES:
The smoking economy. Tobacco was once grown here, p.30
Tatshenshini-Alsek petroglyph. Similarities with DgRw228 on Gabriola, p.30
Travel broadens the mind. Thoughts on seeing pre-Cambrian shale, p.31
Boat building at Silva Bay. Joseph Silva, pp.31–32
Holes in sandstone at great heights. A popular theory is that honeycombing in sandstone is caused by wind and waves, despite abundant evidence that it's not. Honeycombing at 210 metres above sea level in the hills behind Nanaimo adds to the evidence, pp.32–33
Windy New Mexico. More honeycombing a long way from the sea, p.33
Gabriola's nose and tail. Speculations on why there are two major strike-slip faults on Gabriola and their connection with the Harewood coalmine on Vancouver Island, pp.34–35
Malcolm Lowry's stars. In October ferry to Gabriola, he describes stars seen at dusk. Turns out they're better seen in Mexico, pp.36–37
More Gabriola ammonite fossils. Including some rare ones, p.37.

SHALE 21, July 2009 abstracts

Gehlbach J., Gabriola's ambulance service -- the first 25 years, 1969-94, pp.3–31 short version
Szanto, K., Mirages, pp.32–33
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's sandstone quarry -- the earliest days, pp.36–42
Doe, N.A., Additions and corrections to dates for archaeological sites around False Narrows, pp.43–52.

NOTES:
Monster on the beach. Sandstone honeycombed in a curious way, p.2
Mendaro en Canada. A Spanish magazine article about Gabriola's name and its origin in the Basque country, pp.34–35
Newcastle Island and the US Mint in San Francisco. Do we really know why sandstone from here was used? p.42.

SHALE 20, April 2009 (Gabriola structural geology special issue) abstracts

Doe N.A., Gabriola's fractures -- their origins, pp.3–12
Doe, N.A., Stress on Gabriola, pp.13–28
Doe, N.A., Gabriola's shape -- including surmises, pp.29–40
Doe, N.A., The orientation of fractures on Gabriola, pp.41–55
Doe N.A., Terra firma? GPS measurements of land movements around Gabriola, pp.56–60.

SHALE 19, November 2008 (Gabriola sandstone quarries special issue) abstracts short versions

Gehlbach J., The origins of quarrying for sandstone on Gabriola, pp.3–9
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's dimension-stone quarry, pp.10–24
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's millstone quarry, pp.25–41
Gehlbach J., Gabriolans and the sandstone quarries, pp.42–52.

SHALE 18, April 2008 abstracts

Reeve P., Malcolm Lowry on Gabriola, pp.3–6
Doe N.A., Stars in stone—petroglyphs at DgRw230, pp.7–17
Doe N.A., Who named Saturna Island?, pp.18–29
Doe, N.A., More…groundwater notes, pp.38–56.

NOTES:
Brickyard notes. Chinese workers and Thomas Morgan, pp.31–32
Trace elements. Uncommon elements found in Gabriola's rocks and groundwater, pp.32–35
Depicting asterisms and the behaviour of mirrors., pp.36–37. A better reference is Mirrors.

SHALE 17, September 2007 (Gabriola petroglyphs special issue) abstracts

Adams A., Visions cast on stone—a stylistic analysis of Gabriola’s petroglyphs, pp.3–23.
This is a short form of the full thesis with additional notes.
Doe N.A., Alignment and geometry of petroglyphs at DgRw229, pp.24–32
Doe N.A., Alignment of the petroglyphs at sites DgRw224 and DgRw234, pp.33–40
Doe, N.A., Observing the winter solstice at DgRw228, pp.41–44
Doe N.A., Paleoastronomy at petroglyph site DgRw230, pp.45–48
Doe N.A., Observations for the curious at petroglyph sites DgRw193, DgRw198, and DgRw201, pp.49–55
Doe N.A., Petroglyph studies at the cemetery, pp.56–60.

SHALE 16, July 2007 abstracts

Kimmins J.P., Ecological theatre on Gabriola—managing our forests, pp.3–21
Doe N.A., New radiocarbon dates for False Narrows, pp.29–42
Doe, N.A., Polygonalling (a note for alligatoring fans), pp.43–47.

NOTES:
Poulton, Lynda, Gabriola's coal-mining connections pp.23–24
White, E. Joyce, Gabriola after the lights went on. Electricity arrived in 1955, pp.24–25
Placenames pp.25–26. A better reference is this file
Humphrey, Barrie, Gabriola's caveman. A curious news item from 1906, p.26
Home groan. Monster vegetables reported in the local press, pp.27–28

SHORT STORIES:
Gabriola arrival, in 1971 by Anna Leather, pp.22–23.

MUSEUM PAGE:
Editor, Memorial Wall. Failure of the cement; due to salt? p.48.

SHALE 15, May 2007 abstracts

Gehlbach J., Gabriola’s industrial past—the brickyard pp.3–35 short version
Doe N.A., A context for Gabriola’s archaeology, pp.36–43.

MUSEUM PAGE:
Museum operations and finances, p.44.

SHALE 14, September 2006 abstracts

Doe N.A., George Vancouver visits Gabriola, pp.2–9
Doe N.A., Petroglyphs and equinoxes, pp.10–14
Doe N.A., Brown stuff weathering and manganese in your drinking water, pp.15–17
Doe N.A., Groundwater budgets, pp.18–32.

SHALE 13, June 2006 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Petroglyphs-discovery and demise. [An up-to-date version].

Doe N.A., The Origin of Gabriola’s name, pp.7–38
Doe N.A., Spheroidal weathering, pp.39–44.

SHALE 12, November 2005 abstracts

Reeve P., Orcas at Page’s, pp.3–6
Doe N.A., Alligatoring on the beach, pp.7–29.

NOTES:
Humphrey, B., w. Boyce, C., Shopping in Nanaimo in 1857, pp.33–34
Doe N.A., A bigger, better ammonite for SHALE. With suture patterns, pp.35–36.

SHORT STORIES:
The story of the Euclataws, by Marion Gordon written in 1890, pp.30–32.

SHALE 11, May 2005 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Island politics and development.

Harrison J., The four schools of Gabriola, pp.7–21
Doe N.A., The tabla of Toba Inlet, pp.22–36
Doe N.A.,Windecker N., Groundwater notes, pp.37–44.

SHALE 10, January 2005 abstracts

Humphrey B., Malaspina’s lost gallery, pp.3–23
Doe N.A., A most unusual petroglyph, pp.25–32
Doe N.A., More about…runnels, pp.37–44.

NOTES:
Malaspina and the Malaspina Research Centre, p.24
Winter tides. Why there's often no beach in the daytime, pp.33–36.

SHALE 9, August 2004 (Gabriola geology special issue) abstracts

EDITORIAL: Waves in the Malaspina Gallery.

Doe N.A., Geology of Gabriola’s roads, pp.3–5
Doe, N.A., Great balls of stone—concretions, pp.6–11
Doe, N.A., What makes holes in sandstone, pp.12–40
Doe N.A., Curious nodules, pp.41–52
Doe, N.A., The Malaspina Galleries, pp.53–56.

SHALE 8, June 2004 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Petroglyph erosion. Does it matter?

Poulton L., The Roberts family of Mudge Island, pp.7–11
Doe N.A., Malaspina Galleries—what’s in a name, pp.12–15
Barman J., Lost Nanaimo—taking back our past, pp.16–26
Humphrey B., White E.J., Poulton P., Doe N.A., Frozen harbours, pp.35–39
White E.J., Surf Lodge, pp.40–42.

NOTES:
Come and gone yet again. The Robert Dombrain story. Letters brought by an immigrant, pp.29–33
Doe N.A., Dendrochronology It works! An experiment on Gabriola, p.34
A dog note, about a picture by Panter-Downes, pp.43–44.

SHORT STORIES:
Flow but one way, Coast Salish legend collected by Ella Clark, p.27
Coyote, Shushwap legend collected by Franz Boas, pp.27–28
Earth, Great Flood, and Sky, Tsimshian legend collected by Franz Boas, p.28
The World, Tlingit legend collected by Franz Boas, p.28.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS:
First Nations, first dogs— Canadian Aboriginal ethnocynology, by Bryan Cummins, review by Phyllis Reeve, p.43.

SHALE 7, January 2004 (Gabriola geology special issue) abstracts

EDITORIAL: Geology as history.

Doe N.A., How Gabriola came to be, pp.5–14
Doe N.A., Gabriola’s submarine-fan formations, pp.15–24
Doe N.A., It’s about pointy rocks, pp.26–31
Doe N.A., Steinpilze—rock mushrooms, pp.32–34
Earle S., Krogh E., Geochemistry of Gabriola's groundwater, pp.35–42
Doe N.A., What Gabriola is made of, its geochemistry, pp.43–48.

NOTES:
So...is this where the dinosaurs went? An eroded Maastrichtian age sandstone formation looking like a dinosaur. Is there a K/T boundary on Gabriola? It is just possible, but it will be very hard to find, p.25.

SHALE 6, April 2003 abstracts

EDITORIAL: The Pacific herring.

Humphrey B., Huston S., Reeve P., Szanto K., Ruitenbeek J., Doe N.A., Gabriola and Manhattan—two islands, pp.3–8
Littlefield L., Beryl Cryer and the stories she collected, pp.9–16
Reeve P., Page’s marina—sixty years ago, pp.17–21
Doe N.A., Two tides a day? pp.25–31.

NOTES:
Doe N.A., An ammonite for SHALE. Not a late-Cretaceous museum specimen, but it is from here, pp.22–23
Come and gone again-this time for good? The Robert Dombrain mystery solved? pp.23–24.

SHORT STORIES:
Hy-Altz—the Sun God, as told by Tzea Mntenaht (Mary Rice) to Beryl Cryer pp.14–16.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS:
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island by Duncan G.F. MacDonald, reviewed by the Daily British Colonist, Nov.6, 1862, pp.32–34 and again by Nick Doe, pp.34–39.

MUSEUM PAGE:
Museum displays, p.40.

SHALE 5, December 2002 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Etymological musings.

Poulton L., Captain B.A. Wake and his family, pp.3–13
Earle S., Ups and downs of Gabriola—sea level changes, pp.14–20
Martin D.D., The Martin family of Gabriola, pp.22–23
Poulton L., An old fence—how Indian reserves came to Gabriola, pp.24–27
Pearson J., Gabriola warming—a changing climate? pp.30–34.

NOTES:
Far from home. Erratic boulders on Gabriola, p.21
Gabriola's greenhouse gases. An early estimate, p.35
The wild gardens of Ruxton Island. The advantages of fewer deer, p.41
Come and gone again. More on the Robert Dombrain mystery, pp.42–43
Aboriginal burials on Gabriola Island, by Joanne Curtin, book review by Brian Chisholm. Why some were buried in caves and some in the middens, pp.43–45 Summer tides. Why are they always out here in at mid-day in the summer? Isn't the moon supposed to control the tides? pp.45–47.

MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS:
Why does water in the sink drain away counter-clockwise—and why should we care? pp.36–40.

SHORT STORIES:
Memories of a one-room schoolhouse, the North End School on Gabriola by Hazel Windecker, pp.28–29.

MUSEUM PAGE:
The archives, p.48.

SHALE 4, June 2002 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Curved reality and its effect on straight lives. White settler and Coast Salish histories.

Wyse J. w. Cryer B., Last fight of the Cly-Altw, pp.5–8
Doe N.A., Inoceramous vancouverensis—big clams, pp.9–15
Fafard P., Scotch broom—the golden gangster, pp.16–18
White E.J., Newcastle Island’s turbulent past, pp.19–22
Doe N.A., The art of voting scientifically, pp.29–39.

MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS:
F.O.E. 11.1621 HMS Egeria rock inscription pp.25–27
Unidentified early visitors Malaspina Galleries p.28.

SHORT STORIES:
Bruhn moments, ferry stories by Aileen Adams, pp.23–24.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS:
Passage to Juneau—a sea and its meanings by Jonathan Raban, review by Jenni Gehlbach, pp.40–42
My brother's keeper [Brother XII] by Marion Woodson, review by Phyllis Reeve, pp.42–43
Spirit images, medicine rocks—The rock art of Alberta by Michael Klassen, review of BC Archaeological Society, Nanaimo Branch lecture, p.43.

MUSEUM PAGE:
Our building, p.44.

SHALE 3, January 2002 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Youth.

Humphrey B., Researching pioneer family history, pp.4–6
Doe N.A., A Russian map of Gabriola—1849, pp.7–17
GHMS History committee, The Chapple family, pp.18–19
Doe N.A., Hul’qumi’num—Gabriola’s first language, pp.20–22.

NOTES:
Old growth? A late-Cretaceous fossil log, p.25
Doe N.A., Old dogs. Dogs kept by the Coast Salish people, pp.25–26.

MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS:
Gabriola placenames p.27.

SHORT STORIES:
A journal entry, arrival on Gabriola by Mary Rose Lam pp.23–24.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS:
Reading about treaty talks, review of 3 books by Nick Doe, pp.27–28
The laughing one—a journey to Emily Carr by Susan Crean, review by Phyllis Reeve, pp.28–30
Reading about the relationship of Native people and the environment, review of 2 books by Douglas Todd, pp.30–31
Reflections with Ellen White, Medicine woman of the Snunéymuxw interview with Ruth Loomis, pp.31–35.

MUSEUM PAGE:
The native plant garden, p.36.

SHALE 2, March 2001 abstracts

EDITORIAL: The "you can't print that file". What's with the w? A pretty song. The Nanaimo on Barnston Island (map).

Barman J., Island sanctuaries—early mixed-race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands, pp.5–14
Williams P., Gabriola ferry Eena, 1955–64, pp.15–20
Littlefield L., Coast Salish names on Gabriola, pp.21–26
Doe N.A., Smith P., Gabriola’s trees—a brief history, pp.27–33.

NOTES:
Sand, firewood, and the stars at night. If each star were a grain of sand how big would be the pile? pp.34–35
The net shed at Page's. pp.35–36
Come and gone. Robert Dombrain appears only briefly in the historical records. What happened to him? p.36
A French note. The role of French-Canadians in local history, pp.36–37
Tell them, it's Tafoni p.38.

MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS:
Gabriola placenames pp.39–41
Missing trees Sitka spruce and Rocky Mountain juniper on Gabriola? p.41.

SHORT STORIES:
The Haida myth, pp.42–44.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS:
Reading about the role of diseases, particularly smallpox, in the history of the BC coast, review of 7 books by Nick Doe, pp.45–47.

MUSEUM PAGE:
Current displays, p.48.

SHALE 1, November 2000 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Why SHALE? Who owns the past?

Littlefield L., The Snunéymuxw village at False Narrows, pp.3–11
Doe N.A., Alcalá Galiano’s sketchmaps of Gabriola, pp.12–21
Poulton L. Humphrey B., The LeBoeuf family, pp.22–25
Doe N.A., Sandstone and shale—Gabriola’s origins, pp.26–35
Doe N.A., Around the island in 1853, pp.36–40.
NOTES:
Early settlers (list) p.25
Doe N.A., Seagull Island? Questioning the "gaviota" story, p.42.

MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THIS:
Gabriola placenames pp.43–44.

SHORT STORIES:
The day the ferry went duck hunting, as told by Frank Hackwood, pp.40–41
The sad tale of Jancowski's horse, as told by Frank Hackwood, p.41.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS:
Reading about petroglyphs, review of 11 books by Phyllis Reeve, pp.45–47
Nootka: Regreso a una Historia Olvidada, review by Nick Doe, p.47
Web site by David Mattison, short review.

MUSEUM PAGE:
Current displays, p.48
Margaret Mann, Settlers and their sheep, p.48.