Taking Measure

Haig-Brown House

Welcome to Taking Measure; a podcast series exploring Roderick Haig-Brown's 1950 classic work Measure of the Year: Reflections on home, family and a life fully lived. In this series, host Dan MacLennan sits at the desk in the study at Above Tide, also known as Haig-Brown House, in the city of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, BC. From here, he looks out the window across the grounds at the Campbell River flowing past, just as Haig-Brown did when he wrote more than 20 books and numerous articles and essays, lectures and more. He was a remarkable man on many levels: an early...

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Taking Measure

Episodes (14)

May 16, 2022 September - Sandra Parrish
Apr 7, 2022 May - Ian MacAlpine
Jan 25, 2022 June - Paul Barnett

Taking Measure

May 16, 2022
42¼ minutes
34 MB

Guest: Sandra Parrish reads from September in Measure of the Year. Sandra Parrish grew up down the road and just up the river from Above Tide, the Haig-Brown family home in Campbell River. She has many fond memories of spending time on the banks of both the Quinsam and Campbell River with the ever-present sound of running water as a backdrop to her childhood. She has worked at the Museum at Campbell River since the 1980’s and the nature of her work has been intricately tied to the Haig-Brown House for most of her career. Sandra joins host Dan MacL...

Taking Measure

September - Sandra Parrish

Haig-Brown House

00:00 -42:24