SHALE Articles

Updated March 8/10

SHALE the Journal of the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society.

Current Issue: SHALE 23, March 2010

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SHALE 1, November 2000 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Why SHALE? Who owns the past?

Littlefield L., The Snunéymuxw village at False Narrows, pp.3–11
Doe N.A., Alcalá Galiano’s sketchmaps of Gabriola, pp.12–21
Poulton L. Humphrey B., The LeBoeuf family, pp.22–25
Doe N.A., Sandstone and shale—Gabriola’s origins, pp.26–35
Doe N.A., Around the island in 1853, pp.35–40.
NOTES:
Seagull Island? Questioning the "gaviota" story, p.42.

SHALE 2, March 2001 abstracts

EDITORIAL: The "you can't print that file". What's with the w? A pretty song. The Nanaimo on Barnston Island (map).

Barman J., Island sanctuaries—early mixed-race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands, pp.5–14
Williams P., Gabriola ferry Eena, 1955–64, pp.15–20
Littlefield L., Coast Salish names on Gabriola, pp.21–26
Doe N.A., Smith P., Gabriola’s trees—a brief history, pp.27–33.

NOTES:
Sand, firewood, and the stars at night. If each star were a grain of sand how big would be the pile? pp.34–35
The net shed at Page's. pp.35–36
Come and gone. Robert Dombrain appears only briefly in the historical records. What happened to him? p.36
A French note. The role of French-Canadians in local history, pp.36–37.

SHALE 3, January 2002 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Youth.

Humphrey B., Researching family history, pp.4–6
Doe N.A., A Russian map of Gabriola—1849, pp.7–17
GHMS History committee, The Chapple family, pp.18–19
Doe N.A., Hul’qumi’num—Gabriola’s first language, pp.20–22.

NOTES:
Old growth? A late-Cretaceous fossil log, p.25
Old dogs. Dogs kept by the Coast Salish people, pp.25–26.

SHALE 4, June 2002 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Curved reality and its effect on straight lives. White settler and Coast Salish histories.

Wyse J. w. Cryer B., Last fight of the Cly-Altw, pp.5–8
Doe N.A., Inoceramous vancouverensis—big clams, pp.9–15
Fafard P., Scotch broom—the golden gangster, pp.16–18
White E.J., Newcastle Island’s turbulent past, pp.19–22
Doe N.A., The art of voting scientifically, pp.29–39.

SHALE 5, December 2002 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Etymological musings.

Poulton L., Captain B.A. Wake and his family, pp.3–13
Earle S., Ups and downs of Gabriola—sea level changes, pp.14–20
Martin D.D., The Martin family of Gabriola, pp.22–23
Poulton L., An old fence—how Indian reserves came to Gabriola, pp.24–27
Pearson J., Gabriola warming—a changing climate?, pp.30–34.

NOTES:
Far from home. Erratic boulders on Gabriola, p.21
Gabriola's greenhouse gases. An early estimate, p.35
The wild gardens of Ruxton Island. The advantages of fewer deer, p.41
Come and gone again. More on the Robert Dombrain mystery, pp.42–43
Aboriginal burials on Gabriola Island. Why some were buried in caves and some in the middens, pp.43–45
Summer tides. Why are they always out here in at mid-day in the summer? Isn't the moon supposed to control the tides? pp.45–47.

SHALE 6, April 2003 abstracts

EDITORIAL: The Pacific herring.

Humphrey B., Huston S., Reeve P., Szanto K., Ruitenbeek J., Doe N.A., Gabriola and Manhattan—two islands, pp.3–8
Littlefield L., Beryl Cryer and the stories she collected, pp.9–16
Reeve P., Page’s marina—sixty years ago, pp.17–31
Doe N.A., Two tides a day?, pp.25–31.

NOTES:
An ammonite for SHALE. Not a late-Cretaceous museum specimen, but it is from here, pp.22–23
Come and gone again-this time for good? The Robert Dombrain mystery solved? pp.23–24.

SHALE 7, January 2004 (Gabriola geology special issue) abstracts

EDITORIAL: Geology as history.

Doe N.A., How Gabriola came to be, pp.5–14
Doe N.A., Gabriola’s submarine-fan formations, pp.15–34
Doe N.A., It’s about pointy rocks, pp.26–31
Doe N.A., Steinpilze—rock mushrooms, pp.32–34
Earle S., Krogh E., Geochemistry of Gabriola's groundwater, pp.35–42.

NOTES:
So...is this where the dinosaurs went? An eroded Maastrichtian age sandstone formation looking like a dinosaur. Is there a K/T boundary on Gabriola? It is just possible, but it will be very hard to find, p.25.

SHALE 8, June 2004 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Petroglyph erosion. Does it matter?

Poulton L., The Roberts family of Mudge Island, pp.7–11
Doe N.A., Malaspina Galleries—what’s in a name, pp.12–15
Barman J., Lost Nanaimo—taking back our past, pp.16–26
Humphrey B., White E.J., Poulton P., Doe N.A., Frozen harbours, pp.35–39
White E.J., Surf Lodge, pp.40–42.

NOTES:
Come and gone yet again. The Robert Dombrain story. Letters brought by an immigrant, pp.29–33
Dendrochronology. It work's! An experiment on Gabriola, p.34.

SHALE 9, August 2004 (Gabriola geology special issue) abstracts

EDITORIAL: Waves in the Malaspina Gallery.

Doe N.A., Geology of Gabriola’s roads, pp.3–5
Doe N.A., Great balls of stone—concretions, pp.6–11
Doe, N.A., What makes holes in sandstone, pp.12–40
Doe N.A., Curious nodules, pp.41–52
Doe, N.A., The Malaspina Galleries, pp.53–56.

SHALE 10, January 2005 abstracts

Humphrey B., Malaspina’s lost gallery, pp.3–23
Doe N.A., A most unusual petroglyph, pp.25–32
Doe N.A., More about…runnels, pp.37–44.

NOTES:
Winter tides. Why there's often no beach in the daytime, pp.33–36.

SHALE 11, May 2005 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Island politics and development.

Harrison J., The four schools of Gabriola, pp.7–21
Doe N.A., The tabla of Toba Inlet, pp.22–36
Doe N.A.,Windecker N., Groundwater notes, pp.37–44.

SHALE 12, November 2005 abstracts

Reeve P., Orcas at Page’s, pp.3–6
Doe N.A., Alligatoring on the beach, pp.7–29.

NOTES:
Shopping in Nanaimo in 1857. pp.33–34
A bigger, better ammonite for SHALE. With suture patterns, pp.35–36.

SHALE 13, June 2006 abstracts

Doe N.A., The Origin of Gabriola’s name, pp.7–38
Doe N.A., Spheroidal weathering, pp.39–44.

SHALE 14, September 2006 abstracts

Doe N.A., George Vancouver visits Gabriola, pp.3–9
Doe, N.A., Petroglyphs and equinoxes, pp.10–14
Doe N.A., Brown stuff weathering and manganese in your drinking water, pp.15–17
Doe N.A., Groundwater budgets, pp.18–32.

SHALE 15, May 2007 abstracts

Gehlbach J., Gabriola’s industrial past—the brickyard, pp.3–35 short version
Doe N.A., A context for Gabriola’s archaeology, pp.36–43.

SHALE 16, July 2007 abstracts

Kimmins J.P., Ecological theatre on Gabriola—managing our forests, pp.3–21
Doe N.A., New radiocarbon dates for False Narrows, pp.29–42
Doe N.A., Polygonalling (a note for alligatoring fans), pp.43–47.

NOTES:
Gabriola's coal-mining connections. pp.23–24
Gabriola after the lights went on. Electricity arrived in 1955, pp.24–25
Gabriola's caveman. A curious news item from 1906, p.26
Home groan. Monster vegetables reported in the local press, pp.26–28.

SHALE 17, September 2007 (Gabriola petroglyphs special issue) abstracts

Adams A., Visions cast on stone—a stylistic analysis of Gabriola’s petroglyphs, pp.3–23.
This is a short form of the full thesis with additional notes.
Doe N.A., Alignment and geometry of petroglyphs at DgRw229, pp.24–32
Doe N.A., Alignment of the petroglyphs at sites DgRw224 and DgRw234, pp.33–40
Doe, N.A., Observing the winter solstice at DgRw228, pp.41–44
Doe N.A., Paleoastronomy at petroglyph site DgRw230, pp.45–48
Doe N.A., Observations for the curious at petroglyph sites DgRw193, DgRw198, and DgRw201, pp.49–55
Doe N.A., Petroglyph studies at the cemetery, pp.56–60.

SHALE 18, April 2008 abstracts

Reeve P., Malcolm Lowry on Gabriola, pp.3–6
Doe N.A., Stars in stone—petroglyphs at DgRw230, pp.7–17
Doe N.A., Who named Saturna Island?, pp.18–30
Doe, N.A., More…groundwater notes, pp.38–56.

NOTES:
Brickyard notes. Chinese workers and Thomas Morgan, pp.31–32
Trace elements. Uncommon elements found in Gabriola's rocks and groundwater, pp.32–35
Depicting asterisms and the behaviour of mirrors. A better reference is Mirrors, pp.36–37.

SHALE 19, November 2008 (Gabriola sandstone quarries special issue) abstracts short versions

Gehlbach J., The origins of quarrying for sandstone on Gabriola, pp.3–9
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's dimension-stone quarry, pp.10–24
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's millstone quarry, pp.25–41
Gehlbach J., Gabriolans and the sandstone quarries, pp.42–52.

SHALE 20, April 2009 (Gabriola structural geology special issue) abstracts

Doe N.A., Gabriola's fractures -- their origins, pp.3–12
Doe, N.A., Stress on Gabriola, pp.13–27
Doe, N.A., Gabriola's shape -- including surmises, pp.28–40
Doe, N.A., The orientation of fractures on Gabriola, pp.41–55
Doe N.A., Terra firma? GPS measurements of land movements around Gabriola, pp.56–60.

SHALE 21, July 2009 abstracts

Gehlbach J., Gabriola's ambulance service -- the first 25 years, 1969-94, pp.3–31 short version
Szanto, K., Mirages, pp.32–33
Gehlbach J., Gabriola's sandstone quarry -- the earliest days, pp.36–42
Doe, N.A., Additions and corrections to dates for archaeological sites around False Narrows, pp.43–52.

NOTES:
Monster on the beach. Sandstone eroded in a curious way, p.2
Mendaro en Canada. A Spanish magazine article about Gabriola's name and its origin in the Basque country, p.2
Newcastle Island and the US Mint in San Francisco. Do we really know why sandstone from here was used? p.42.

SHALE 22, January 2010 abstracts

Gehlbach J., Withey's shipyard in Silva Bay, pp.3–24 short version
White E.J., The South Gabriola Community Hall, pp.25–29
Doe, N.A., Charting Gabriola -- the survey of HMS Egeria, 1904, pp.38–48.

NOTES:
The smoking economy. Tobacco was once grown here, p.30
Tatshenshini-Alsek petroglyph. Similarities with one on Gabriola, p.30
Travel broadens the mind. Thoughts on seeing pre-Cambrian shale, p.31
Boat building at Silva Bay. Joseph Silva, pp.31–32
Holes in sandstone at great heights. A popular theory is that honeycombing in sandstone is caused by wind and waves, despite abundant evidence that it's not. Honeycombing at 210 metres above sea level in the hills behind Nanaimo adds to the evidence, pp.32–33
Windy New Mexico. More honeycombing a long way from the sea, p.33
Gabriola's nose and tail. Speculations on why there are two major strike-slip faults on Gabriola and their connection with the Harewood coalmine on Vancouver Island, pp.34–35
Malcolm Lowry's stars. In October ferry to Gabriola, he describes stars seen at dusk. Turns out they're better seen in Mexico, pp.36–37
More Gabriola ammonite fossils. Including some rare ones, p.37.

SHALE 23, March 2010 abstracts

EDITORIAL: Controversy.

Doe N.A., Gabriola's changing climate and its effect on groundwater, pp.7–18
Doe N.A., Electromagnetic radiation and health, pp.19–33
Doe N.A., Salt-weathering of Nanaimo Group sandstone, pp.34–56.