Artist nominated
for Order of B.C.

WEST VANCOUVER portrait
painter Unity Bainbridge has been
nominated for the Order of B.C.

By Evelyn Jacob
News Reporter

Bainbridge, a native of Victoria
who painted B.C. and its peoples
for more than 60 years, was
nominated by friend Jane Clark
“simply because this woman has
an extraordinary background and
is practically unknown.”

Clark said Bainbridge’s con-
tribution as a historical painter
was the basis on which she made
her nomination. ‘‘! really believe
that she should receive this award
because she was working out in
the field painting B.C. landscapes
at a time when the only other per-
son doing the same thing was
Emnily Carr.

“This is a very courageous
woman. It was unheard of in
those days (the °20s and ’30s) for
a young woman to go by herself
into villages where no English was

spoken, She went to Lillooet,
Bella Belia — only she and Emily
Carr were doing that.’’

Bainbridge’s painting career
began in the ‘20s and flourished
during the °30s, "40s and °50s.
During those years she recorded
many historical B.C. scenes, such
as a group of Japanese at work at
a fish canning plant in West Van-
couver during the "30s, and many
well-known native leaders:
Squamish nation chief Joe
Mathias, Chief Black Joe, and
Galen Weston.

Today her work hangs in the
Diefenbacher Museum in Saskat-
chewan, Canada House in London
and Buckingham Palace, to name
just a few,

But most of her work she kept
for herself and her family, said
Clark. “‘And she's lived a very
meager life because of that.”*

Today at 75, Bainbridge re-
mains an active painter. ‘‘She’s
the sort of woman who, even to-
day, would go and sleep in a car
in order to capture an image,”
said Clark,

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Junior league celebrates 60 years

THE JUNIOR League of Greater
Vancouver is celebrating its 60th
anniversary of volunteering in the
community. Half the Junior
League’s members are North
Shore residents.

A Diamond Ball is being held
on May 11 at the Hotel Van-
couver, 900 W. Georgia St.,
commemorating 60 years as the
Juniors League of Greater Van-
couver.

The Junior League of Greater
Vancouver is one of 277 Leagues
in the Association of Junior
Leagues International, Inc., a
women’s volunteer organization.

An estimated two million hours
of volunteer time have been con-
tributed to the community by the
volunteers.

North Shore projects over the
years have inmchided the child
abuse prevention program at
Chesterfield House in North Van-
couver, The Community Arts
Council also in North Vancouver,

and the North Shore Legal Aid
Program.

Approximately $1.5 million
have been raised by League
Members to fund a variety of
community projects. Profits from
the Diamond Ball will be directed
to the Junior League of Greater
Vancouver’s community projects,
on the North Shore and the Lower
Mainland, and to the establish-
ment of the endowment fund.

Junior League members serve
on Community Boards. One is
North Shore Community Services
which this year has three Junior
League members on its working
board: Lynne Bogardus, presi-
dent, Carolyn Coleclough, a
lawyer who chairs the Legal Ser-
vices Committee, and Jean
Lawrence, public relations chair.

For more information about the
ball or the Junior League, call
Carmen Opsat at the Junior
League office, 872-7942, or Jean
Lawrence, 926-9420.

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