“Tales The Totems Tell”

A red-orange (front) and gray (spine) book titled “Tales The Totems Tell” by Hugh Weatherby. It was published by The MacMillan Company of Canada, Limited. 1946. 97 pages. Hugh Wallace Weatherby (1908-1985), was a writer, illustrator, editor, artist and cartoonist, who worked in the British Columbia forestry industry for many years. In his spare time Hugh must have continued landscape drawing – one identified art work is called Skookum (Haida) 1965 (Barnowsky) indicating a continued interest in the West Coast First Nations. In 1971-72 his landscape drawings were featured on the covers of the B.C. Teachers magazine. By the early 1970’s, perhaps having retired, Hugh was living in West Sechelt, north of Vancouver. He was the cartoonist (and sometimes photographer and writer) on the local paper, The Peninsula Times. Hugh Weatherby died in North Vancouver Jan. 1, 1985.