Author: Chief Simon Baker. Compiled and Edited by Verna J. Kirkness. Cover photograph by Gary Fiegehen. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, BC., 1994. 1st Edition. RARE: Signed by Chief Khot-La-Cha! Printed in Canada by D.W. Frieson & Sons Ltd. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Size: 9.75 x 6.25 inch, 201 pages.
KNOT-LA-CHA, Chief Simon Baker was raised primarily on the Capilano Reserve in North Vancouver, and was the grandson of Joe Capilano. Born on January 15, 1910, he attended St. George's Residential School. Baker worked primarily as a longshoreman in Vancouver from 1935 to 1976, rising to the position of superintendent of Canadian Stevedoring.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: With an Indigenous Aboriginal name meaning Man with a Kind Heart, Chief Simon Baker served as a councillor to the Squamish Nation for more than 30 years, ten years as its chairman, and became the only Squamish member to be designated Chief for Lifetime. He twice received the British Columbia Centennial Award of Merit, in 1958 and 1971, and became an international cultural ambassador in the 1970s and 1980s. As a fundraiser and teacher, Baker played an important role in the First Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia where he received an Honorary Doctorate of Law in 1990. Ten years later he accepted the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Heritage and Spirituality. Baker was invested in the Order of Canada in 1997. As a patriarch for nine children and 38 grandchildren, Simon Baker died on May 23, 2001.
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1st Edition and Signed by the Author
ISBN: 9781550541571
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