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There are a few of these I've found throughout the city. This was one, a shop on Vernon, you'd pass it by every day of the week if it weren't for the signage, handbill outside, even then hard to notice...
up a cramped stairwell & hall, a couple of adjacent rooms, the indifferent proprietor working in one, I peruse the museum. I say museum because very little is for sale, most is on display simply to be marveled at, photos shared below:
Everything from fossils, skulls, bones, antiquities, very little for sale (that's ok, very little of real value, but a curious room nonetheless...)
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I made the drive today, long, nothing of merit. Robson, a few KM North of Castlegar.
A very few vendors, costume jewelry, she's checking the hallmarks..."Pewter...copper...or brass". It's all shit.
Used tools, a few possibly interesting prospecting chisels, but - today, no.
Reasonably priced pie by the slice, otherwise, my curiosity is slaked, there's nothing here, abandon, move on...
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Almost an hour North of Kaslo. I'm curious, in absence of garage sales, and there's much here to be curious about, the road is empty, there's nobody...
There's a lot of Sunday Markets here. Every community has one. I'm curious, not hopeful, just curious...
Bullshit. A couple of buskers playing badly to an audience of none. A very few stalls, nothing, a 40 minute drive for diddly, no-one here could sell their stuff - all of it - and hope to make a hundred dollars, I settle on a couple of expensive croissants - spinach and feta, chocolate, and that's it, the day is done, return to work.
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Time for a haircut, head on down Vernon St. to the Gentleman's Barber.
A few chairs, retro old house, furnished with old postcards and photographs, retro barber accessories, it's the Gentleman's Barber.
He's good, it's not just the haircut, I could care less, but it's the lost Art of Conversation, he's Cold-Reading, raves about the Tobacconist in Edmonton, The Burlington, cuing a memory I thought I'd long forgotten, "You been?" he asks, we talk of the homelessness on Baker Street, the local reaction, they'll tolerate the vagrancy but start accosting the local youth with bad drugs and the local vigilantes will form a posse and help you out of town, other things, the many and varied topics of indifferent conversation, it's the Gentleman's Barbers...
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At first I thought the movie looked promising, but then I grew annoyed that perfectly good Canadian stories have to be told by Americans and acted with English and American actors. Cultural Misappropriation.
In any event, the trailer for the movie can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJO6Ax_ev8
I won't recommend it. But if you're curious as to who she was you can read the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis, or watch this old CBC biography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIr8PAO0RSA or a NFB short on her life: Maud Lewis - A World Without Shadows.
(Maud Lewis's hours in Nova Scotia, now in a museum)
(One of Maud Lewis's many cat paintings)
And then there's this: http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/maud-lewis-painting-found-in-ont-thrift-shop-bin-to-be-auctioned-1.3342494 and this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/maud-lewis-painting-new-hamburg-thrift-store-auction-bids-125k-1.4084862