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of Globe and Mail Vancouver

joins snow and rink Olympic Vancouver

Not to say moreover that

the nomination

of Joy Kogawa and Wayson Choy

joins Genni Gunn and William Gibson

and William H. New

Vancouver

Yet fly into Vancouver International

and meet history’s other necessary

nomination of Vancouver

at the hands of Bill Reid’s

thirteen-messenger

jade canoe

Spirit of Haida Gwaii

A daedal boat

to nominate First Nation

and yet all later nation Vancouver

Pre-Air Canada

busy paddle wielders

beast and bird

boat and beings

each says Reid

“forever anchored in the same place”

Boat companions

under shaman ark magic

the nominated signatures of

steersman Raven

soaring Eagle

fierce Grizzly Bear

protector Mother Bear

water Dogfish Woman

rodent Mouse Woman

questing Wolf

bulge-eyed Frog

ancestral Haida Chief Kilstaai

patrolling Killer Whale

and of a one human being

Best expatriate city in the world

say 2010’s prize-givers

Best nominated Greater Vancouver

says the arriving passenger

Best myth and spirit city