Michael R. Barrick's blog

Ghost Towns of British Columbia
Bruce Ramsey, 1963
Mitchell Press Ltd., CA, sixth printing May 1975

Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest
Ruby El Hult, 1957
Binfords & Mort, US, fourth ed. 1974

Canadian Treasure Trove - Volume One
Garnet Basque, 1973
Garnet Publishing, CA, first edition March 1973

Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
Derek Hayes, 2005
Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., CA, first soft-cover edition 2007
Printed in China

The Historical Atlas of New York City
Eric Homberger, 1994
Owl Books, US, first soft-cover edition 1998
Printed in Great Britain

27th Annual Collection: Norris, 101 Cartoons from the Vancouver Sun
Len Norris, 1977-78
Vancouver Sun, 1978

1927 Edition of the Sears, Roebuck Catalogue
Sears, Roebuck Co., 1927
Bounty Books, US, 1970

1902 Edition of the Sears, Roebuck Catalogue
Sears, Roebuck Co., 1902
Bounty Books, US, 1969

OK, this is a little crazy. I was about to shoot a few more books as hit a section that is a little disorganised, so I started moving things around, and of course you just can’t move books around without inevitably thumbing through half of them. One I flipped through was a book on the Dieppe Raid called “The Shame and the Glory: Dieppe” wherein was an image of a tracked vehicle in a landing craft. Despite the low resolution halftoning in the book a face jumped out… because it is mine. Or rather, my dad’s, who I closely resemble. “Nah,” I think, “That can’t really be him.” Over 6,000 people were deployed on that raid (and over 3,600 didn’t come back) - chances are slim. But I thought I’d check, so I and scanned it and then Google image searched for a higher resolution copy of the picture. Now I’m really not sure it isn’t him. The guy in the back of the vehicle with his head tilted could be him. Even when zooming into the high resolution picture it’s still too blurry to be sure. A point against this being him is this in not a Churchill tank, but the picture is from a training exercise, not the actual raid. The points for this being him are there is a maple leaf with a buffalo on the front of the vehicle, which is the 14th Army Tank Regiment (Calgary), his regiment, and the sergeant leaning against the bulwark near the front of the landing craft looks an awful lot like a guy in another picture I have of my dad standing in front of a tank, a tank that also has a “5” on it just like this vehicle.

Just saw my reflection and now I’m wondering how much of the day was I walking around with my hair like this.