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Hello all! I'm an Anglican priest living in Richmond, British Columbia. In my spare time, I'm interested in the history of British Columbia - especially the fur-trading and exploration history of the BC interior.

Although I am a priest, and have a Th.M. in New Testament, and did doctoral work in New Testament ethics, I don't like writing articles on Biblical, ecclesiological, or ethical themes. Although, now that I mention that, I'm beginning to think an article on New Testament ethics might be in order, or a section expanding on the ethical anthropology of St. Paul. Hmmmmm.....

But really, that's work. And this is a hobby.

Research as a hobby

File:Shelbourne Valley.jpg
The Cedar Hill area in which I grew up, photographed about sixty years before my birth

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I find myself distracted by information. I'm a researchophile. I get interested in a subject, and I start researching. The threads lead me in interesting directions: The rivers of British Columbia and their history, because my father was a freshwater surveyor for the Province of British Columbia. And of course, talking about the history of rivers brings my attention to the Europeans who explored them, which gets me working on their biographies, and then gets me interested in the colonial history of western British North America.

Thinking about all this history gets me homesick for my beloved Vancouver Island (although I'm happy being on the Lower Mainland), and so I start writing about the neighbourhood in which I grew up — from the general (Victoria) to the specific (Cedar Hill). And once I start writing about neighbourhoods - hey...this is kind of fun! And so my next project: Working on the neighbourhoods of Vancouver for WikiProject Vancouver!

Articles I've created or substantially revised include

Herein, "extensively reworked" means that, following my editing, roughly three-quarters or more of the material in the article was added by me.

British Columbia Geography

Explorers of British Columbia

The article on Simon Fraser was in such poor shape, it motivated me to become a Wikipedian and was the first I worked on, and this was the first image I downloaded.

Mayors of Vancouver

Premiers of British Columbia

History of British Columbia

File:Amor de cosmos 2.jpg
Amor De Cosmos is one of my favourite B.C. historical figures. He sums up Left Coast eccentricity and passion

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Religion

Other

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