Mid Island Elder College

Mid Island Elder College Mid Island Elder College provides courses of general interest, primarily for mature adults.

Population growth and how to provide an environment where people can live, work and play safely and affordably has had m...
06/03/2026

Population growth and how to provide an environment where people can live, work and play safely and affordably has had many, dare I write philosophers, like Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Paolo Soleri, Le Corbusier try to design a better world and before them Ebenezer Howard. Whose little book written in 1898 became a guide in 1946 for rebuilding a better British urban landscape after the Second World War.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/101zWskfWIZvlepcKFtDIUfKH8jf-4SXE/view?usp=sharing

The First Nations art form is unique in the World and the Haida monumental work was extensively photographed by George M...
05/30/2026

The First Nations art form is unique in the World and the Haida monumental work was extensively photographed by George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901), Edward Dossetter (active 1881), Richard and Hana Maynard (Richard 1832-1907; Hanna 1834-1918), Robert W. Redford (1867-19?), E.P. Allan (active 1897), Charles Frederic Newcombe (1851-1924) and Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952).
“Haida Monumental Art Village of the Queen Charlotte Islands” was printed in a limited edition of 1,600 copies but I would recommend anyone researching West Coast First Nations art make an effort to accesses a copy of this similarly monumental book.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSULX3kJZM20z-CFfyLTQCDEdRiRn_po/view?usp=sharing

A biography of an important British parliamentarian largely forgotten but highly influential who amid the financial prob...
05/30/2026

A biography of an important British parliamentarian largely forgotten but highly influential who amid the financial problems from 1948 to 1949, maintained a high level of social spending on housing, health, and other welfare services, while also maintaining the location of industry policy. Personal incomes and free time continued to rise, as characterised by cricket and football enjoying unprecedented booms, together with the holiday camps, the dance hall, and the cinema.[24] In his last budget as Chancellor (1950), the house building programme was restored to 200,000 per annum (after having previously been reduced due to government austerity measures), income tax was reduced for low-income earners as an overtime incentive, and spending on health, national insurance, and education was increased. (from Wikipedia)
We could use leadership of this quality in our time.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1avLz2E_RDKhsUPtIGD3mLCchLjEUpesB/view?usp=sharing

Dear Elder College member:I am writing to invite you to Mid Island Elder College’s Annual General Meeting. As a register...
05/20/2026

Dear Elder College member:

I am writing to invite you to Mid Island Elder College’s Annual General Meeting. As a registered society, under the Societies Act we must hold such a meeting every year. It is an opportunity for the Board to report to the members on the progress that we have made over the past year and to elect Board members to carry on the work for the next year.

Attached is an agenda for the meeting and proposed changes to the MIEC by laws.

The meeting will be held at 10:30am on Monday 25 May at St Philip by the Sea, 7113 Lantzville Road, Lantzville. The meeting will be in the church itself rather than the classroom that we use.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Robin Fisher,
President , Mid Island Elder CollegeFiles
available for download:https://b2fea44c41fc4f786f3b-06fe490aa1fc350644e5637d30b97304.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/4981149.49a02da8_439b_4b99_b8fc_bc84363703ea.AGM_AGENDA___MAY_2026.PDF

p.s. at the time of publishing the attachment should read Monday and not Wednesday

As an unintentional emigrant from England to become an immigrant to Canada at the age of two — it wasn't until I arrived...
05/19/2026

As an unintentional emigrant from England to become an immigrant to Canada at the age of two — it wasn't until I arrived in British Columbia at the age of eighteen that I became aware of First Nations culture via the unique art form of the peoples of the West Coast of British Columbia. Initially, it was via the silkscreen works of the studio at Langara College in Vancouver and later when working at the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium and Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
As an armed force BRAT, I had lived from coast to coast in Canada and had learned some history of eastern First Nations largely the Huron and Iroquois and their roles in forming Canada in away that made us separate from the United States of America.
When I hung out my shingle as a cartographer I had the opportunity to create maps to be used in First Nation Land Claims in Nunavut (Eskimo Point, Baker Lake Region) and British Columbia (Nimpkish, Coldwater, Haisla).
For all of that, I still not have a comprehensive overview of the Indigenous “Truth and Reconciliation” and an atlas like this helps a bit.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/120bLHHyq_cZo1nZe8IccZ4UbT6Sw2y-D/view?usp=sharing

Privacy and computers, we haven't evolved very far since the Canadian government commissioned the “Privacy & Computers” ...
05/18/2026

Privacy and computers, we haven't evolved very far since the Canadian government commissioned the “Privacy & Computers” report in 1972. There was a clear concern about the limited computer storage and computing of the time being too powerful and invasive. Countries around the world were trying to identify the risks and come up with privacy guidelines. Did they fail?
Usually the attached pdf file is relatively small but on this issue especially after our Elder College Saturday Speakers Series lectures on AI — attached is the introduction to the 1972 report. A bit long but informative.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UFh_LP-LmnBfuJRWF7vW_5DveExr1TyS/view?usp=sharing

Artificial Intelligence seems to be exhibiting the risks warned about in Isaac Avimov’s novel ”i,Robot” written in 1950...
05/18/2026

Artificial Intelligence seems to be exhibiting the risks warned about in Isaac Avimov’s novel ”i,Robot” written in 1950. Although he postulated three laws that should make robots (AI) safe they gave him a path to consider that they might have unintended consequences similar to the three wishes given by a genie freed from a bottle. Asimov subsequently add a forth law to precede the original three. Did it help?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nxoG57JEKOneKdWH68AON7HM0sWtShXG/view?usp=sharing

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