Well, I hit pay dirt today while trolling through the microfilm pages of The Daily Colonist, Victoria's primary daily newspaper. In the December 17th, 1912, p. 8, issue there's a favorite poem by C. Fox Smith titled "The Long Road Home," one which I've recorded as set to music by Peter Massey. So there are probably more of her poems published there for someone else to harvest, and maybe a few that we've never heard of before. I found lots of other interesting stories, primarily in the shipping news column, but I only had time to review issues from December of 1912.

Then I went off to the James Bay Cook & Book Shop to meet with the local historian Danda Humphreys that I've been in e-mail contact with. She's a very interesting lady, having grown up in a town across from Liverpool, and having sung with an early group of folks called the Spinners back in the 1950's, not to be confused with the popular folk group of the same name. She's going to read over my notes and see if she can dig up any more clues to CFS's residency in Victoria. She now has a full set of my CD's and a draft copy of the CFS Songbook which she'll donate to an appropriate archives when she's done with them.

Late this afternoon I'll be joining Judy and some of her eagle watching friends at a restaurant called the Superior on Fishermen's Wharf. Then we'll journey on to the Bent Mast Pub and see if anyone shows up to sing.

Sunday, it looks like I'll be taking a river boat tour of the harbor and the gorge, past the site of the Rock Bay lumber yard where CFS used to watch the lumber ships being loaded. Then in the evening we'll join the folks at Norway House for more music.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble