Natural Cultural Traditions We Share Common (nonpolitical) cultural traditions in the land currently called Canada. The political, official multiculturalism policy of Canada is NOT promoted on this web site. All the traditions listed are based on nature, and exist already in our land in the form of a common culture.
Habits Other Traditions Close to Nature Rodents and Rabbits Predators and Omnivores Ungulates Bats, Snakes, Worms & Other Creeping Critters Amphibians, Fish and Water Mammals Insects First Page Insects Second Page Birds: Birds of Prey Crows, Ravens and Jays Song Birds Water and Shore Birds Wild Chickens & Wild Turkeys Other Birds Trees: Flowers, Grains, Grasses, Vegetables, Weeds & Other Plants: Flowers Grains & Vegetables Low Bush Berries Grasses and Legumes Weeds Water and Marsh Plants Other Plants These cultural matters will be explored and celebrated on this site. Expect changes and more pictures. All photos (unless otherwise stated) are originals, taken, built, edited and owned by RDW and his kids - copyright. The foundation consists of the following traditions many of us in the land called Canada share. To read the outline scroll down the page.
Pictures In Our Minds - Visions and Perceptions of Our Traditions When these cultural traditions are mentioned (like for example farming, railway, playing cards, fishing, northern lights, beaver, coyote, moose, mosquito, butterfly, owl, loon, chickadee, maple tree, crocus, wheat, blueberry, or tumbleweed) - a picture in ones mind forms. I will list some of my personal images of the traditions listed in the cultural outline. These are my personal images, and yours are just as valuable, and maybe more accurate. It is not my job to judge whose visions of our traditions are more in tune with reality. I will write my name after my own description of the cultural tradition. You can send in their own personal visions of these traditions from the cultural outline. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. I may (but can't promise) then publish them on this web site beside the picture of these cultural matters, and put in your name. You can remain anonymous, or just use your first name, or you can give your full name. Let me know in your e-mail how you want to be identified - if at all. You can contact me by sending a letter, or phoning, or by sending an e-mail of your description, but I cannot promise 100 % it will be published. Our individual visions of this land and its traditions vary. Take farming as an example (I used to be a farmer). You may have a stereotypical vision of a dumb farmer. His simple minded wife, who gets tricked by the slick salesman. An image of seeding time. Family gathering together for Sunday dinner. Everyone eating so much they are ready to burst, but Mother keeps telling them to have some more. An image of a simple life living off the land. Sport the farm dog. Others may and most likely will have a different picture in their mind of the same tradition. You will soon find the visions we have are certainly not always in tune with reality. The stereotypical image of farming is far from the reality in most cases. With tumbleweed a picture forms from earlier days. Gunsmoke with Sheriff Matt Dillon. On old Boot Hill. The wind blowing fiercely, driving the tumbleweeds past Dillon's ears. Rolling the weeds over the graves of the poor suckers gunned down in their boots. Vision by Ray Wegner With the coyote a picture forms of a still, ........ cool evening. The sunset still glowing on the western horizon. There it comes ! From the distant hills a lone coyote sends out his shrill, wild song. And then from the woods across the field a whole family of coyotes answer the call, with a loud, wild chorus, as they greet the night. Picture in my mind by Ray D.W. With playing cards a picture forms from the past. Family and neighbours joining in a friendly, jolly, happy time. Faces that are now gone, but still remembered. There is a lot of nostalgia attached to our visions. Image and perception by Ray D.W.
Hauling Freight on the Highway Highway and Bridge Maintenance Off Shore Fishing Lumbering Mining (oil, gas and tar sands) Tourism Communications Very Polite Living Close to the USA Border Live Theatre Jack Pine Blue Jay Trembling Aspen Choke Cherry Bumble Bee Spider You are welcome to participate. Culture is dynamic in nature. So lets express ourselves and enjoy our common culture. E-mail
COMMON CULTURAL OUTLINE This is the outline of the common culture of the House of Israel, but it is not the end all, or be all of our culture. There are many other valid cultural aspects not mentioned in this outline. Traditional Occupations These are divided into two pages. Airports Air Transportation and Airlines Auto Manufacturing Bee Keeping Communications Construction Continuing Education and Vocational Schools Education Electronics and Telephone Manufacturing Farming and Ranching Farm Machinery Manufacturing Food Processing Fishing (offshore, inshore, salmon, fish hatcheries, aqua-culture, commercial fishing on the larger lakes) Furniture Manufacturing Fur Trade and Fur Farming Hauling Freight on the Highway Highway and Bridge Maintenance Horticulture and Market Gardening Hunting and Gathering Hydroelectricity and Electrical Workers
Lumbering and Pulp & Paper Page two of traditional occupations Meat and Fish and Sea Life Processing Plants Merchandising Merchant Marine Mining (coal, copper, iron ore, gold, oil & tar sands, sand & rock & gravel, silver) Oil Refineries Post Office Railway Restaurants and Catering & Cooking Sanitation (taking care of garbage, water treatment systems, sewage disposal, land fills) Silva Culture Ship Building Tourism, Trade (import - export) Transportation of Goods along the Rivers, Coasts and Harbours Veterinarian Water Supply Management (plus water main construction and maintenance)
TRADITIONAL HABITS (some habits can have good and bad sides to them)
These traditional habits need to be clarified and explained much more clearly, therefore the section on CULTURE is hereby added to this constitution.
Animal Hibernation Bird and Animal Migration Chinooks High and Low Tide, Waves and the Sandy Seashore Mating Seasons and Bird Nesting Muskeg Northern Lights Prairie Thunderstorms Rainy Season on the West & East Coasts Salmon Run Spring Melt and Runoff The Fall of the Leaf and the Autumn Harvest Whirlwind or Dust Devil
Beaver Marmot Mouse (also Voles & Lemmings) Muskrat Pocket Gopher (also Moles) Porcupine Rabbits and Hares Shrew Squirrel and Ground Squirrels Woodchuck
Bear (bears are dangerous and should be avoided and not fed - particularly Polar Bears) Bobcat Cougar Coyote Fox Lynx Martin Mink Raccoon River Otter Skunk Weasel Wolf Wolverine
Big Horn Sheep and Dall Sheep Bison or Buffalo (Bison can be dangerous and should be avoided at all seasons) Caribou Deer (these are wild animals, does may abandon fawns if disturbed and bucks can be aggressive during breeding season) Elk Moose (respect Moose and Elk, since they are potentially dangerous especially during calving and the rut) Mountain Goat Musk Oxen Pronghorn Antelope
Bats, Snakes, Worms and Other Creeping Critters Barnacles Bats (bats are potential carriers of rabies so should be avoided) Centipede Cockroach Crabs Cutworm Earthworm Red Wrigglers (for composting) Garter Snake Millipede Slugs Western Rattlesnake (interesting creatures, but be cautious, since a bite can be fatal)
Amphibians, Fish and Water Mammals Cod Fish Frog Northern Pike Perch Tadpole Toad Trout Turtles Salamander Seals Snail Walrus Whale (avoid whales especially Killer Whales) Whitefish
INSECTS First Page Ant Aphids Backswimmer Black fly Bumble Bee & Honey Bee Butterfly & Moth Centipede Crane fly Insects Second Page Daddy Longlegs Damsel fly Dragon fly Fruit fly Grasshopper & Cricket House fly Ice Worm Ladybug (all Beetles) Leafhoppers Mayfly Midges Mosquito Spider Tent Caterpillar Wasp Water Strider
Eagles Hawks Owls Peregrine Falcon Crow and Raven Family and Jays Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie Blackbird Clark's Nutcracker Cowbird Crow Grackle Gray Jay (Whiskey Jack) Raven Stellars Jay
American Goldfinch Bluebird Catbird Gray Cheeked Thrush Hermit Thrush Meadowlark Robin Sparrows Swainson's Thrush Warblers Wood Thrush Wrens
Flicker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker etc
Common Loon Common Snipe Coot Cormorant Dipper Ducks (goldeneye, mallard, merganser, pintail, teal) Geese (canada goose and snow goose) Great Blue Heron Grebe Gulls Killdeer Kingfisher Pelican Rail Sandhill & Whooping Crane Sandpiper Sora Swan Tern
Wild Chickens and Wild Turkeys Bobwhite Grouse and Partridge Pheasant Ptarmigan Quail Wild Turkey
Chickadee Doves (Mourning Dove, Rock Dove and domestic Pigeon) Grosbeak Hummingbird Junco Kingbird Nighthawk Nuthatch Redpoll Snowbird Swallow Waxwing
Alder Arbutus Beech Birch Black Cottonwood Eastern Cottonwood Elder Elm Maple Tree Mountain Ash Oak Poplars (Trembling Aspen, Balsam Poplar) Walnut Willows
Alpine Fir Douglas Fir Jack Pine Juniper Lodgepole Pine Ponderosa Pine Red Pine Spruces Tamarack Western Hemlock Western Red Cedar White Pine (western and eastern) Yellow Cypress or Yellow Cedar
Caragana Cotoneaster Buck Brush Dogwood Hawthorn Hazelnut Labrador Tea Lewis Mockorange Lilac Sagebrush Shrubby Cinquefoil Wormwood
Fruit Trees and Fruiting Shrubs Apple Cherry Tree Choke Cherry Hazelnut Huckleberry High Bush Cranberry Peach Pin Cherry Plum Saskatoon
FLOWERS, GRAINS, GRASSES, VEGETABLES, WEEDS & OTHER PLANTS Aster Buttercup Columbine Crocus Daisy Goldenrod Geranium Iris Indian Paintbrush Lady Slipper Lupine Mayflower (Lily-of-the Valley) Mountain Avens Pansies Pitcher Plant Poppy Purple, Prairie & Madonna Lilies Purple Violet Showy Sunflower Sweet Pea Tiger Lily Wild Rose Yarrow
Barley Beans Buckwheat Canola Corn Flax Oats Peas Potato Rye Sunflower Wheat
Bearberry Blackberry Blueberry Bunchberry Cloudberry Cranberry Crowberry Currant Dwarf Bilberry Gooseberry Grapes Raspberry Tame Mushroom Wild Strawberry
Alfalfa Blue bunch fescue Brome Grass Clover (Sweet, Red & Wild Clover) Crested Wheat Grass June Grass Kentucky Bluegrass Quack Grass Reed Canary Grass Sweet Grass Tall Manna Grass Timothy
Bluebur Burdock Chickweed Dandelion Field Bindweed Fireweed Foxtail Hemp Nettle Leafy Spurge Penny cress Pigweed Poison Ivy Ragweed Stinging Nettle Stink Weed St John's-Wort Tartary Buckwheat Thistle (sow thistle, canada thistle and bull thistle) Tumbleweed Wild Oats Wild Mustard Yellow Rocket
Arrowhead Bulrush Cattail Pond Weed Seaweed Sedges Sphagnum Moss Wild Rice Grass
Bitterroot Lewisia Broadleaved Plantain Ferns Fiddlehead Horsetail Licorice Root Prairie Onion Rhododendron Sage Water Hemlock
Mailing Address: Ray Wegner P.O. Box 475 Stn. Main Calgary, Alberta T2P-2J1 Telephone (403) 274-5253 E-mail All photos (unless otherwise clearly stated) are original pictures, taken, built, edited and owned by Ray Wegner and his kids. Copyright Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms and Fundamental Freedoms (from the Canadian Constitution) " The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association. " This web site built, designed, and owned by Ray Wegner. Home
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