Gahwi Woo

Gahwi Woo: Gahwi Woo, a Grade 10 student at Mount Douglas Secondary School, took first place in the senior arts category of the War of 1812 Writing and Arts Challenge. , according to Times Colonist. Usually people focus more on the American or British-Canadian side, but I wanted to focus on the natives because people dont always know what their perspective was. Woo said. It really inspired me how the natives had to co-operate together to defend their own land. A Saanich student who painted a portrait of a 19th-century First Nations figure will be honoured at a ceremony in Toronto this week. She said she painted Trinket in acrylic and watercolour and tried to show the First Nations perspective of the cultural changes and outside influences that would have come with the War of 1812. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.