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Hello all! I'm an Anglican priest living in Richmond, British Columbia. In my spare time, I'm interested in the history of British Columbia - especially the fur-trading and exploration history of the BC interior.
Although I am a priest, and have a Th.M. in New Testament, and did doctoral work in New Testament ethics, I don't like writing articles on Biblical, ecclesiological, or ethical themes. Although, now that I mention that, I'm beginning to think an article on New Testament ethics might be in order, or a section expanding on the ethical anthropology of St. Paul. Hmmmmm.....
[edit] Research as a hobby
The
Cedar Hill area in which I grew up, photographed about sixty years before my birth
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I find myself distracted by information. I'm a researchophile. I get interested in a subject, and I start researching. The threads lead me in interesting directions: The rivers of British Columbia and their history, because my father was a freshwater surveyor for the Province of British Columbia. And of course, talking about the history of rivers brings my attention to the Europeans who explored them, which gets me working on their biographies, and then this gets me interested in the colonial history of western British North America.
Thinking about all this history gets me homesick for my beloved Vancouver Island (although I'm happy being on the Lower Mainland), and so I start writing about the place in which I grew up — from the general (Victoria) to the specific (Cedar Hill).
Perhaps the best example of just how much I've been drawn into Wikipedia is the Anglicanism WikiProject, which I designed and initiated. I was motivated by the fact that Google searches on subjects related to Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion typically yield a Wikipedia article in the top five...many of which are (or were) frankly incomplete, inaccurate, or POV-ridden. This fact is combined with the total absence of articles on important Anglican theology, history, institutions, and individuals. I realised I couldn't do it all myself, and was not qualified to do it all myself, anyway. When I compared Anglican-related articles to those of other denominational traditions, especially Roman Catholicism, I felt embarrassed. Hence, the WikiProject. I am delighted that we now have over forty participants.
[edit] Articles I've created or substantially revised include
Herein, "extensively reworked" means that, following my editing, roughly three-quarters or more of the material in the article was added by me.
[edit] British Columbia Geography
[edit] Explorers of British Columbia
The article on
Simon Fraser was in such poor shape, it motivated me to become a Wikipedian and was the first I worked on, and this was the first image I downloaded.
[edit] Mayors of Vancouver
[edit] Premiers of British Columbia
[edit] History of British Columbia
Amor De Cosmos is one of my favourite B.C. historical figures. He sums up Left Coast eccentricity and passion
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[edit] Religion
