CALEB NICKERSON
CLARENDON Oct. 3, 2020
Venetia Crawford has been many places in her life, but she’s recently published a book detailing her time spent in Vancouver, BC, titled Ventures to Vancouver.
The book is a collection of interviews that she conducted with a diverse array of people during her time in the coastal city, everyone from a . . .
sailor to an Iranian high school student and a homeless panhandler. She started off by talking to the fellow members of the Talespinners, a storytelling club at a community centre that Crawford was a member of, but gradually expanded her scope.
Crawford, the author of dozens of printed works, said that the stories had been on the backburner, but she decided to finally publish them as a way to keep busy while locked down at home.
“Since I came to Shawville, it didn’t seem worthwhile doing but with the pandemic and nothing else to do and there it was in my files, and said ‘Do me! Do me! Do me!’ So I did it,” she explained.
Some of the tales are more adventurous than others, and Crawford mentioned the interview with the sailor as particularly exhilarating.
“This was one of the most exciting trips, because I had to go down to the port and get myself onto a boat to interview the people to see why they brought their boat there,” she said. “It was very scary because it was in the port of the city, and people offered me hash on the way there.”
Ventures to Vancouver is available through Crawford directly or at the Pontiac Printshop.
