Jimmy Kalinek soars high in the sky during a blanket toss activity that was hosted during Inuvik’s National Indigenous Day celebrations on June 21, 2019. Shot for Inuvik Drum
A Westcana Electric employee installs a new yellow traffic light box in Creston, B.C. on Sept. 4, 2020.
A fan watches the 49th annual Panda Game football match between the University of Ottawa GeeGees and the Carleton University Ravens at TD Stadium in Ottawa, Ont., on Sept. 30, 2017. The Ravens won 33-30 in OT, in front of a sellout crowd of 24,420 people. Shot for The Charlatan
A young woman wearing a surgical mask with “I can’t breathe” written on it marches in a Black Lives Matter rally in Ottawa on June 5, 2020. Tens of thousands took to the streets of downtown Ottawa to protest police brutality and anti-Black racism.
The lives of three boys who ran away from Inuvik’s Stringer Hall residential school in 1972 were honoured at a ceremony in Inuvik, N.W.T. on June 6, 2019. Bernard Andreason, Dennis Dick and Lawrence Jack Elanik were no older than 13-years-old when they set out on foot to return home to the neighbouring community of Tuktoyaktuk, a journey that spanned two weeks. Andreason managed to make it home, but his two friends died along the way. During the ceremony, Elders and family members of the two boys prayed over Andreason, centre, who turned 58 later that year. Shot for the Inuvik Drum
A couple goes for a morning stroll along the trails of Tin Can Hill in Yellowknife, N.W.T., January 2019.
Going for a walk in Crawford Bay, B.C., on Jan. 14, 2021.
Tivoli Theatre employee Noah Doyle sits inside of the theatre’s ticket booth during its soft-opening night on Oct. 26, where they hosted the second annual 7th Siding Film Festival’s third screening event. Shot for the Creston Valley Advance
Canadian animator Richard Reeves examines a strip of film in his Creston home studio. November 2020. Shot for the Creston Valley Advance
The Lower Kootenay Band partnered with the Canadian Army Reserve to host military exercises on the Band’s wetlands in Creston, B.C., on Feb. 20, 2021. The initiative was designed to simultaneously help with the restoration process of the Band’s marsh landscape. The hope is that nature will run its course and the craters will naturally fill with water over time, where they will serve as future habitats for ducks and geese.
Father Kanickaisamy Lawrence, the priest at Creston’s Holy Cross Catholic Church, poses for a portrait in the living room of the church’s rectory on Feb. 5, 2021.
Zaudanawng “Jay-Dan” Maran looks outside his window at his Creston, B.C., home on Jan. 22, 2021. In 2007, Maran was forced to flee his home in the Kachin State of Myanmar after he helped a woman escape the hands of two soldiers who were sexually assaulting her. He came to Creston in 2014, after hiding out in Malaysia for several years, waiting to receive his refugee card status. Hanging on the wall behind him is a logo of Kachin’s Manaw festival. Shot for the Creston Valley Advance
Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd blows smoke out of his mouth during the group’s performance at the Ottawa Bluesfest music festivalon July 14, 2018. Shot for The Charlatan
A woman wipes her eye and raises a fist in the air during the second annual Women’s March in Ottawa on Jan. 20, 2018. Shot for Centretown News
Amy Makortoff stands outside of her new home in Nelson, B.C., while her eight-year-old daughter Elvie roams the yard. December 2020. Shot for The Globe and Mail
