North West Territory-the rest
The three lost
light house keepers of Eilean Mor and the ship wrecks in the Hederdies sing to
the wing that I am Clan Morrison. The smell of Charcoal and pastel and the
spatter of Sumie declare me an artist. I had a few good friends from the North
West Territory, two missionary kids and one native Inuit which is a great
description of the territory. The MKs told me that they had a deep freezer that
they only turned on during the summer. They had more Canadian flags up then the other
Canadian from the College. The Inuits stills whisper to the wind for food to
come to them. (Nunavut which left in 1990 gets it from an airplane and
complains about prices.) The Inuit loved when the icy winds blew across the field.
(It was Florida and nearly everyone else drove the hundred yards to avoid it.)
The Inuit was also the only one of my friends from the Territory without thick
Canadian accents which were stronger than my pastor from Ontario and in deep
thought they would go, “ohhhhhh.” The first time I met her I thought she was
Japanese to which she responded “Soooo which language was that, eh?” In 1870,
North West Territory was all of western Canada. In 1905, it was dissolved and
became a colony of Ontario. The old NWT became the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, northern Ontario, and northern Quebec. It reorganized
in the 1960s to more or less what it looks like now. Texas has a lot of
lighthouses.
The mythos of
the North West Territory is special. There is a myth that Japanese tourist make
pilgrimages to NWT because a child conceived under an aurora will be gifted.
(Japanese complete deny it.)Behind everything is the Richardson Mountain which
was named by the failed Franklin expedition. The church behind the waterfall is
Lady of Victory Parish a.k.a “igloo church.” The waterfall is Hatto deh Naili which is said a grandparent looking over the
area. The mace in the new mace of the North West Territory created after Nunavut
left in 1990 which says on it “one land, many voices.” The little fur moccasin
is for the Normen Wells Historical Center which preserves Sahtu culture.
The plane is for the Aviation Museum. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and
charcoal and completed recently. If you
are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@gmail.com to order
