My Dad’s favorite Bible verse!

How would you say ‘silhouette’ in CJ?

The folklore behind an Indigenous place-name is Whitemansplained; some excellent Chinuk Wawa emerges from the layers of fiction and lavish illustrations.

Here’s what I consider a probable Canadian French discovery in the Fort Vancouver region — and yes, I suspect it must be a Chinuk Wawa word new to us.

Another, and quite little-known, frontier-era Oblate missionary in BC who used Chinook: Father Denis (‘Dionysius’) Lamure OMI.

I continue researching “that other pidgin” of our region (West Coast-style Chinese Pidgin English), and this find was kind of colorful…

Reader challenge: There’s a frontier-era Chinuk Wawa vocabulary that I’ve never laid eyes on, nor heard about till recently…