Elder College Classes

The History of First Nations Land in British Columbia

We will look at the the way that newcomers have treated First Nations people over their land from early contact to the present. We will learn about land lost and sometimes regained. It is import

Coal Mining History of Vancouver Island

For over 100 years Scottish, English, Italian, Croatian, Japanese and Chinese miners dug the coal that lies under the surface of Vancouver Island from Ladysmith to Port Hardy. Generations of miners worked wit

Irish Poet Laureate W. B. Yeats

This course will examine the works of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, from his late-19^th-century works to his more modern productions of the 1920s and 1930s. We will begin by sketching the outline of Yeats's life, briefly co