Award winning Vancouver Island historian and author Catherine Marie Gilbert will give a pictorial presentation based on her latest book Walrus: the Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick. Catherine will illustrate David Garrick’s rare fearlessness in the face of danger and abiding concern for the natural world. She traces the influences of his formative years spent in rural Ontario and Panama that lead to Garrick’s involvement with activism, journalism and mysticism in Vancouver, BC in 1971.
Here, he met Paul Watson who would become a lifelong friend. The brothers-in-arms shared in life altering adventures beginning with the 1973 Oglala Sioux Wounded Knee Occupation in South Dakota, followed by Greenpeace’s inaugural whale and Harp seal campaigns of the mid ‘70s.
Hosted at the Museum at Campbell River, this presentation is part of the ongoing History on the Run local history series. Wednesday, November 18 from 1:00–2:30pm. Registration is $12 general seats or $10 Museum members.
Walrus: The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick
