tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162412092870729861.post6975637691945801452..comments2023-10-24T07:26:19.280-07:00Comments on lost and found.: What can we Learn from Pine Point?Aaron Turpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00671555767682757311noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162412092870729861.post-61779857380809667092019-02-07T05:46:50.023-08:002019-02-07T05:46:50.023-08:00I listen to a lot of punk rock and with the artist...I listen to a lot of punk rock and with the artist pup rising to the surface I had to check out the town he sings about so often. Thanks for telling a better and more intimate story than the wiki page.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01556203943582976408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162412092870729861.post-40657478639265144522014-10-03T21:42:32.264-07:002014-10-03T21:42:32.264-07:00Enjoyed these posts and comments. I was a Pine Poi...Enjoyed these posts and comments. I was a Pine Pointer who left the town in 1984. I have only fond memories of this place.Melaida Corpuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00829175433675550108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162412092870729861.post-15258205723282187172013-03-14T12:13:42.527-07:002013-03-14T12:13:42.527-07:00Hi Stephen,
I thank you so much for taking the ti...<br />Hi Stephen,<br /><br />I thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my post. You have certainly lent some insight on the topic at hand, and I would be interested in learning more from you.<br /><br />My interest in Pine Point stems from some collaborative research on interactive media completed by my colleagues at The Parkdale-Activity Recreation Centre. How lucky I am to be in touch from someone who had a lived experience here. I have taken your comments into serious concern and would like to continue this process, with your permission.<br /><br />Would you be interested in doing an interview for my blog? It wouldn't be a large endeavor - basically, I would send you 5 - 7 questions to which you respond (2 paragraphs max per question) and include a few pictures. Let me know if you are at all interested in this - send me an email at aturpy@yorku.ca.<br /><br />Again, I thank you for your thoughtful response. I look forward to communicating with you in the future.Aaron Turpinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00671555767682757311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162412092870729861.post-41633948200248044212013-03-10T19:06:05.290-07:002013-03-10T19:06:05.290-07:00Aaron, I found and read your blog with some intere...Aaron, I found and read your blog with some interest, although I have to disagree with parts of it.<br />I first moved to Pine Point when I was 10, graduated from high school while I lived there (I rode a school bus to Hay River as there was no high school in Pine Point at the time), worked at the mine over two summer breaks from university, and moved back again with my wife for a 6 year stint as an adult, transferring to another mine a couple of years before Pine Point closed. My two sons were born while we lived there.<br />Pine Point was built in a different time, when all remote mines were started with their own towns. Today, many of these towns dot the landscape throughout Canada, having either seen the original operation morph into a new one(s) or surviving the closure of the mines (Yellowknife possibly the best example of the latter). <br />Pine Point was not a Federal Government experiment, but one of the last of its kind. If the mine was to be built today, it would probably be a fly in, fly out operation with some of the staff residing in Hay River, Ft. Resolution, or other nearby communities. Such an approach would alleviate the tumult of the town disappearing, the modern equivalent of the mining ghost town.<br />But is that truly worth the loss of community? Ten years before my parents moved to Pine Point they lived in another remote mining in northwest BC. To the end of their days, their closest friends were their friends and colleagues from that distant and isolated place. Pine Point Revisited is not an elegy, but a celebration of a unique time in the lives of Pine Pointers. I suspect, even with the advantage of hindsight, very few of us would want to forego that experience.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14239537529492123085noreply@blogger.com