Totem Pole Carver Ellen Neel (1. Ellen May Neel was born in Alert Bay, on Cormorant Island, off Vancouver Island's Inside Passage. Her father Charles Newman, was an American seaman; her mother Lucy, was Kwakwaka'wakw, the daughter of famous totem pole carver Charlie James. Since her mother was sick so often she spent much of her childhood in Charlie James' care. From the age of ten on, she found him a stern taskmaster, making her repeat drawings over and over to get them right. She would often cry from the anguish of trying to please. By the age of 1. 2 she was able to carve well enough that her totem poles sold to tourists who came to Alert Bay. Asheville.com community news Flood of 1916 Changed Biltmore Village and Family Lives Forever. The Biltmore Village of today is as charming an area of town as anyone is likely to find. Its lovely, historically significant, old homes-turned-shops, with their. Wegmans is a privately owned company, founded in 1916 by John and Walter Wegman as the Rochester Fruit and Vegetable Company. Wegmans is headquartered in the. Moving ballads of the period soar as Easter Rising leaders' humanity and Irish people’s doubt and suffering abound. Great Canadian Heritage Treasure: A fabulous totem pole left from master Kwakwaka'wakw carver Ellen Neel, when she was at the top of her form in the early 1950s. The 1916 Australian plebiscite was held on 28 October 1916. It was the first non-binding Australian plebiscite, and contained one question concerning military service. The National American Woman Suffrage Association represented millions of women and was the parent organization of hundreds of smaller local and state. She quit school at 1. She took up with, and later married, Edward Lyle Neel, a smooth talking white salesman who had altered his name to escape a checkered past in the US, but his witty and facile tongue enthralled the local girls in Alert Bay. They thought he was a coveted catch, but the sheet metal salesman proved to be a marginal provider at best, especially for a family that grew to have six children. In 1. 94. 3 they all left Alert Bay and moved to Vancouver. In 1. 94. 6 Ellen's husband had the first of a series of debilitating strokes that made him unable to work full time. The family was facing dire poverty. Ellen decided she would have to become the primary bread winner with a sick husband, as well as six children to look after. It was a Herculean task for anyone, let alone an Indian woman in Vancouver in the 1. What to do? Ellen decided her only strength was her background in native art. Perhaps she and her family could make souvenir totem poles like she had with Charlie James years before in Alert Bay. Starting in 1. 94. Ellen recruited her family into making souvenir totem poles for the tourist trade in Vancouver. The city gave her a place in Stanley Park to set up shop during the summer. Commissions for larger poles sometimes came in. Today one stands at the University of British Columbia. Commissions for smaller presentation poles from one to two metres also dribbled in. But most of the output was the cheap smaller tourist poles (family stamped example here). Ellen's talent and work had made her famous in Canada and overseas. But economic survival was always touch and go. On one occasion she had a commission for 5,0. Hudson's Bay Company but that was rare. Some months there were no sales for larger poles at all. By 1. 96. 0, when Ellen was only 4. In 1. 96. 1 her eldest son Dave was killed in a car accident. She never got over the loss and sank further into depression. Like maybe a suit made out of meat.. Certainly they would help out the west coast's most famous Indian artist to assist her artistic development and keep Canada's first woman totem pole carver and her brood from going on welfare at the same time. The Canada Council, whose officers and offspring grew sleek and fat from salaries, expense accounts, and pensions, true to form, turned her down flat, though they expressed sympathy for her plight.. Her friends say when the letter arrived refusing help, Ellen just sat there, staring into space. In the 1. 96. 0s it was tough being an Indian woman trying to do the right thing in a society where special interests - read white men - ran everything for themselves and their kind. Is it any wonder that many people, and not only Indians, consider this snub a blatantly racist slight by Ottawa bureaucrats. With both parents sick and the children on their own, one brother stayed to keep Ellen and her husband from starving. He started selling off family heirlooms to bring in cash: Ellen's tools, her favourite Charlie James drawings and carvings, which she had kept for thirty years, and the family's sacred copper, mostly behind Ellen's back. When they found out, she and her siblings were furious but what could they do when you hit rock bottom. Ellen's depression reached new lows.. She died on February 3. She was only 4. 9, totally worn out by the cares of life. An Indian woman, in the best traditions of her people, who had given her all to her husband, her family, the art of her people, leaving nothing for herself, not even her health.. She was betrayed by bad luck, but also by a society where artists, who are not tied in with special interests who pull the cultural money strings, doing their best is just not good enough, especially if you are Indian. Introduction - CSO - Central Statistics Office. Introduction. Welcome. Welcome to this Central Statistics Office (CSO) publication to mark the centenary of 1. We decided to commemorate this momentous occasion by searching for statistics from Ireland for the 1. We have also published a book containing a selection of the content from this report. I hope that you enjoy reading the stories we found as much as we enjoyed collecting the statistics and I would encourage you to browse the varied and interesting data we gathered. P. Rinneamar cinneadh an . In some instances data was available only for the island of Ireland but this is noted on the tables concerned. There is much more variety today in names for baby boys and girls compared with over 1. Irish names for babies such as Aoife or Ois. Nearly half of workers were in Agriculture, in comparison to just 5% today. One in ten workers in 1. The rate of illiteracy in Ireland was 8. Dublin and the highest rates in Donegal, Galway, Mayo and Waterford. Less than a fifth of the population could speak Irish in 1. Average daily attendance at National schools in 1. Nearly 7,0. 00 second level students took the Junior Intermediate Examination in 1. In 2. 01. 5 there were just under 6. Junior Certificate exam and about 5. Over 7,9. 00 children lived in Industrial schools in 1. Reformatory schools. Of the 8. 22 children admitted to Industrial schools in 1. Photo: Miss Crowe and Mr Gildea with their pupils at Kilglass National School, Ahascragh, Co. Galway. Just 2. 4% of births in 1. Dublin City, Waterford, Louth and Wexford. The infant mortality rate was 8. Ireland in 1. 91. The highest rate was in Dublin city at 1. Roscommon at 3. 4. By 2. 01. 4 the infant mortality rate in Ireland was very low at 3. The vast majority (9. Catholic ceremonies but by 2. About one in eight deaths in 1. TB) which killed 6,4. Most deaths in 2. Life expectancy has risen strongly since 1. A baby boy born in 2. In 1. 91. 6 the overall fiscal situation in Ireland was very favourable for the British Government. The basket of goods used for the Consumer Price index in 1. The number of farms fell by over 6. Ireland more than doubled, increasing from 1. There were nearly 1. Ireland in 1. 91. Ireland while by 2. Cork had a fleet of 3. Dublin had a fleet of 3. By 2. 01. 3 the Luas Red and Green lines in Dublin were 3. Meardon, Bonmahon mines, and group in motor cars, 1. Introduction Population The population of Ireland grew from 3,1. The five counties with the largest increases in population between 1. Leinster. The population of Dublin County more than quadrupled, from 1. Kildare more than tripled over the same time period. Meath had a population increase of 1. Wicklow (1. 25%) and Louth (9. Nine counties saw population declines between 1. Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Sligo, Monaghan, Longford, Kerry and Donegal. These decreases ranged from a 5. Leitrim to a decrease of 4% in Donegal. The age structure of the Irish population has changed markedly between 1. In 1. 91. 1 just under half the population was aged under 2. Galway. Names. There is much more variety in names in 2. In 1. 91. 1 the top 4. One in ten baby boys in 1. John with just under one in ten called Patrick. By 2. 01. 4 the most popular names for boys (Jack and James) were each used for about 2% of baby boys. Of the top ten names used for baby boys in 1. John, Patrick, James, Michael, Thomas and Daniel. The name James was the third most popular name in 1. Ten of the names in the top 4. Irish in origin – Conor, Se. None of these “Irish” names are in the list of the most popular 4. Se we can see that over the last 1. Irish origin for naming baby boys. Just as with names for baby boys, there is much more variety in names for baby girls in 2. In 1. 91. 1 the top 4. Mary was used to name 1. Bridget. By 2. 01. Emily, was used for just 1. Sophie was used for 1. Neither Emily nor Sophie appear in the top 4. Most of the names for baby girls which were in the top 4. Of the top ten names used for baby girls in 1. Kate – makes it into the top 4. By 2. 01. 4 Irish names for baby girls are preferred by many parents. Eight of the names in the most popular 4. Irish in origin – Aoife, Saoirse, Caoimhe, Ciara, Niamh, Cara, R. None of these “Irish” names appear in the 1. So we can see that over the last 1. Irish origin for naming baby girls, just as they have also done for baby boys. Of the 6. 6,6. 62 housing units in Dublin in 1. There were 2. 3,9. Dublin in 1. 91. 1, 3. Thus Dublin in 1. More than 1. 0% of all dwellings had ten or more rooms in 1. Cork, Wexford, Kilkenny, Wicklow, Waterford, Kildare and Carlow while less than 5% of housing units had ten or more units in Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Clare. By 2. 01. 1 just 2. Dublin where just 1. Just over a quarter worked in manufacturing jobs in 1. One in ten workers in 1. The percentage who were classified as illiterate was 8. Dublin had the lowest illiterate rate at 3. Other counties where the rate was less than 6% were Kildare, Tipperary, Laois, Limerick and Kilkenny. The highest rates of illiteracy in 1. Donegal (1. 6. 8%), Galway (1. Mayo (1. 4. 6%) and Waterford (1. By 2. 01. 1 this proportion dropped to 6. Ireland today is much more mobile than 1. In the 1. 91. 1 Census, one in ten people were born in another county in the Republic but in 2. Less than 1% of the Irish population was born outside the islands of Ireland and Britain in 1. Ireland. Close to 1. Protestant (Church of Ireland, Presbyterian or Methodist) in 1. Just under 9. 0% of the population in 1. Catholic and by 2. Over 2. 0% of the population in 1. Protestant in counties Wicklow, Donegal and Monaghan while the proportion in Dublin was 1. Cavan it was 1. 8. By 2. 01. 1 four counties had a Protestant population of just over 7%: Wicklow, Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan. Very few people in Leinster in 1. Irish (3. 5%) while over a third in Connacht were recorded as able to speak Irish. More than half (5. Galway spoke Irish in 1. The court martials which were held tried 8. Of those arrested but not tried by court martial, 9. Average daily attendance at National schools in 1. School attendance data for Primary schools in 2. Nearly 7,0. 00 students took the Junior exam in 1. Senior exam and over 6. In 2. 01. 5 there were just under 6. Junior Certificate and about 5. Leaving Certificate and the gender split was about 5. Nearly 9,0. 00 students took French, 6,7. Irish and 5,2. 16 took Latin. All of the students who took . All of the students who took the exam in . More than 9. 0% of the children in Reformatory schools were boys while 5. Industrial schools were girls. Of the 8. 22 children admitted to Industrial schools in 1. Cork. Births. The number of births per 1,0. Dublin City at 2. The lowest birth rates in 1. Dublin County at 1. Carlow at 1. 7. 5. By 2. 01. 2 the birth rate had fallen to 1. Ireland and the highest rates were in Dublin County at 1. Kildare at 1. 7. 2 and Meath at 1. The lowest birth rate in 2. Donegal. Just 2. 4% of births in 1. The highest rates of births outside marriage in 2. Dublin City, Waterford, Louth and Wexford where rates were over 4. The infant mortality rate was highest in Dublin City at 1. Dublin County at 1. Limerick at 1. 01. The lowest rates of infant mortality in 1. Roscommon at 3. 4. Leitrim at 4. 5. 9, Kerry at 5. Mayo at 5. 1. 4. By 2. Ireland was very low at 3. There were 5,2. 71 deaths in the area now covered by the Republic of Ireland to babies under 1. The main cause recorded for deaths in babies less than one year old in 1. In 1. 91. 6 one quarter of all marriages were Church of Ireland or Presbyterian in Monaghan. Other counties with a high proportion of Church of Ireland or Presbyterian marriages were Donegal (1. County Dublin (1. Cavan (1. 5%) and Wicklow (1. Less than 1% of marriages in 1. Civil ceremonies while 0. Methodists, Society of Friends, Jews and other religions). Between 1. 91. 6 and today there has been a large decrease in the proportion of Catholic marriage ceremonies, with just under 6. Catholic Church. There has been a corresponding growth of Civil ceremonies (2. Other” ceremonies (1. Spiritualist and Humanist ceremonies). In 2. 01. 4 the population had increased to over 4. The death rate in 1. Kerry, Clare, Mayo, Leitrim and Roscommon. The highest death rate by far in 1. Dublin City at 2. About one in eight deaths in 1. TB) which killed 6,4. Heart disease was identified as the cause of death for 5,3. Infectious diseases (such as measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria) and influenza killed 2,0. Most deaths in 2. In contrast, deaths in 1. Just over 1. 0% of all deaths in 1. Thus one in five deaths in 1. A baby boy born in 2. A baby girl born in 2. A man of 6. 5 in 1. The improvement for women at age 6. Thus a woman aged 6. Dublin. Economy. The thirty two county economy of Ireland was dominated in 1. Agriculture, Linen production, Shipbuilding and Brewing & Distilling. The number of barrels of beer produced in Ireland fell from 3. By 1. 91. 6 the overall fiscal situation in Ireland was very favourable for the British Government. Taxes on imported goods such as tea, sugar and tobacco and increased duties on alcoholic products, as well as a lowering of the exemption limit for income tax, contributed to the large increase in Government revenue between 1. The vast majority of average household expenditure in 1. The average price of a packet of 1. One intriguing feature of the 1. Consumer Price Index weights is that there is no mention of alcohol and there is no coverage of alcohol in the retail prices collected in 1. By 2. 01. 0 only 3. In 1. 91. 4, about 1. England, Scotland and Wales for seasonal agricultural work and two counties (Mayo and Donegal) accounted for over 8. By 2. 01. 4 there were 1. Ships were the only method of transporting people and goods to and from the island of Ireland to the outside world in 1. In 1. 91. 1 there were more than 8. Britain from Dublin port. The ports on the island of Ireland in 1. Canals and canalised rivers on the island of Ireland totalled 1,3. By 2. 01. 6 the Royal and Grand Canals and the Barrow have about 3. Cork had a fleet of 3.
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