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The Barnacle

Each of these Barnacles holds a little treasure in the form of stories about our beautiful community. Read through them, year after year, to learn the secrets of Lund - past and present.

The Lund Barnacle is our long-running community magazine, created by and for the people of Northside qathet. Each issue shares local stories, upcoming events, community updates, and the voices that make our corner of the coast so unique.

 

From announcements and editorials to art, poetry, and local happenings, The Barnacle keeps our community connected and informed. Proceeds go to the Lund Community Society

 

Reach out to share your stories, photos, or ideas for upcoming editions!

Have a Read of The Barnacle Through the years!​

Click on the issues below to explore the full archive of The Lund Barnacle.

Proudly sharing community news and stories since 1988.

THE BARNACLE
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In 2014, Teedie Kagume of the Powell River Historical Museum and Sandy Dunlop, the current editor of The Barnacle, proposed that the Museum digitize all back issues of the newspaper, which debuted in the summer of 1988. This idea blossomed into approval by the Lund Community Society to apply for a matching funds grant to the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC Library. In February of 2015, we learned we had been awarded the grant.

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Finding copies of all of The Barnacle was challenging; finding uncrumpled copies without coffee rings, pen doodles, and half-completed crosswords was even more so. Under each volunteer editor and staff, the paper had a different publishing schedule, so we may never know if the issues we could not find were ever even printed. So Lund! What follows are the issues we did find, and being able to save them from moths and to share them online is very satisfying.

 

Many thanks to:

  • The Powell River Historical Museum, especially Teedie Kzume, Bert Finnamore, and Doug Mobley

  • The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC Library

  • The Lund Community Society and its volunteers, especially Sandy Dunlop for initiating the project, Margaret Leitner for writing the grant, and Wendy Drummond for managing technology.

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One day in the early summer of 1988, a crowd formed on the Lund dock to see the 11’6” 300+lb six-gilled mud shark that had been recently caught. Among the gawkers were Bill Smith and Claire Heffernan, who took a photo of it. Bill said, “We should have a newspaper here where we could put stuff like this”. Claire agreed, and the Lund News soon hit the stands.

 

It was on 12 pages of 11” x 14” newsprint, hand-typed with headings in calligraphy. Besides the photo of the shark, there were articles from the Lund School, the Waterworks, and the Regional Board, among others. There was an interview with Claire, featuring her passionate exposé on fish farming, and a contest to name the paper. Bill was the editor. It was free.

 

The next issue came out in the Fall of 1988, sold for fifty cents, and had a name, “The Lund Barnacle”, with the assurance “(will grow on you)” written below. Dan Mooney had come up with over fifty names, and Bill chose that one. Claire says she may still have that list somewhere. Dan won a $50 gift certificate from Percy’s fish plant, which they redeemed for prawns.

 

For the next ten years, from 1988 to 1998, a total of twenty issues featured Bill as either the editor or a contributor, along with many others, including Jo Suche, Donna Huber, the entire Keays family, Anne Cameron, Siobhan James, Gordon Ellison, and others. The Barnacle in those years was full of interesting controversy, fun, news and reviews. It featured some great covers and artwork by Keith Matheson, as well as good photos of locals and local scenes, and numerous articles that raised awareness about our threatened environment. In the winter of 1991, it went to $1.00, and from that point on, it was 28 pages fat and rich with community.

 

In April 1999, Valerie Durnin took over the editorial reins. The paper remained on newsprint but increased in size to 11”x17” and was published with twelve pages, approximately once a month, until the winter of 2000/01, totalling fourteen issues.

 

That time period led up to the millennium, and Val researched museum archives, created a historical chronology, and conducted excellent interviews with some of Lund’s elders, accompanied by great old photos. There were also interviews with younger individuals, who requested a glimpse into the future of Lund. Len Ryan, Cor Landman, and Val contributed great photos of our beautiful surroundings and of our villagers enjoying the many events of the day. ​

This was also the period during which the Hotel was sold, completely renovated, and grandly reopened. The Lund School closed and reopened in another form. Lots of things to write about! Regular contributors included Camille Davidson, Ted Durnin, Suzan Roos, Donna Huber, Margaret Ducharme, and Saundra Olsen, with three dozen others too many to name here.

 

From time to time, there were no Barnacles published because no volunteers were willing to take on the task.

 

In the spring of 2002, Suzan Roos and Rianne Matz became editors, and the Barnacle was published in a new size, 8 1/2” x 11”, photocopied on regular paper at the Lund Community Centre, with sixteen pages, and sold for $2.00. Suzan and Rianne put out a year’s worth of issues, joined by Katrin Harry for the last issue. They had nice artwork (Rianne), photos, and contributions by three dozen Lundies during that time.

 

The next editor was Ann Snow, who began in July 2004 and published four issues per year, each sixteen pages, for the next six years, up to April 2010. Ann’s photography was particularly sharp and clear, and she added colour starting in 2008. The number of contributors during that time is about fifty. Ann also added a significant amount of filler from the internet, including spoofs, jokes, and cartoons.

 

Eve Stegenga took over in July 2010 and continued through the next eight issues until summer 2013. There were about twenty contributors over that time. This brings us up to 2014, when in January, Sandy Dunlop became editor with a dedicated staff of Martha Allen and Wendy Drummond. Others soon volunteered to join the staff, and a quarterly of considerable size has been published ever since. In order to research this article, we had to track down and read nearly all of these Barnacles.

 

It was fascinating and truly humbling to see the community spirit alive and flourishing.​

HISTORY OF THE BARNACLE 

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Get Involved

The Barnacle thrives on community voices! Share your stories, photos, or ideas for upcoming editions or support this long-running local publication with a donation to help keep it printing and reaching our neighbours.

 

Every contribution helps celebrate and preserve the spirit of Northside qathet.

In respect and gratitude, we recognize that we live on the homelands of the Coast Salish People. Before being renamed by European settlers, the Lund harbour was known as Kla-Ah-Men by the Tla'amin, Homalco & Klahoose people who have inhabited these lands since time immemorial. 

Lund Community Society

9656 Larson Road

PO Box 202

Lund, BC  V0N 2G0

lundcommunity@gmail.com

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