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