50 — Wednesday, May 26, 1993 - North Shore News

Spilsbury to receive Order of BC.

WEST VANCOUVER artist Jini Spilsbury has been ap-
pointed to The Order of B.C., the highest form of rec-
ognition awarded to an individual by the provincial

government.

Spilsbury, whose lifetime pas-
sion has been photographing and
painting the forests, seas and
mountains of the West Coust,
will fly to Vietoria next month
lo receive the award at an of-
ficial ceremony at Government
House.

“T always thought | belonged
to B.C. anyway,’ the 87-year-
old painter and author quipped
over the phone from his Horse-
shoe Bay studio. ‘‘Of course tm
very flattered to have been
chosen, because only 12 people
receive the Order each year.”

Spilsbury was born in England
in 1905 and emigrated to

By Evelyn Jacab
News Reporter

Canada with his family, settling
in B.C. at Savary Island.

With only four years of for-
mal schooling, he went on to pi-
oncer the use of radio telephones
on the West Coast and built a
thriving business that would
make his name known around
the world.

In 1942 he began flying a
Wace float plane as an adjunct
to his radio work and eventually
formed Queen Charlotte
Airlines, which became part of

Pacific Western and later CP
Air.

Throughout it all, Spilsbury
retained a love of painting, and
many of his pustel works will
soon be published in his fourth
book, Spilsbury's Coast of Many
Colours.

(Spilsbury's Coast, The Ac-
cidental Airline and Spilsbury’s
Album chronicle the develop-
ment of the B.C. coast through
the 20th century.)

He exhibited his work public-
ly for the first time at the age of
81, and at 87 Spilsbury continues
to uek the waters of B.C.

“He's starting to re-emerge
again, but there are still people
who don't know about this
amazing man,'’ said David
Grantham of Vancouver’s Rocky
Mountain Gallery.

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Province honors WY’s

WEST VANCOUVER’S
Harmony Arts Festival, go-
ing into its third yea: this
August, has received an
award from the British
Columbia Parks and Recre-
ation Association.

danna Taylor, past president of
the association and the Director of
Parks and Recreation in Port Co-
quitham, made the presentation at
the May 17 meeting of West Van-
couver District Council.

~Harmony Arts Festival

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

by Maureen Curtis

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