Season's Greetings from British Columbia's Past

All of us have different ways we could complete these sentences. Christmas is a Christian religious festival, a time for meditation and song and for a story of a baby in Bethlehem. Christmas is also a secular holiday celebrated by many Christian and non-Christian people, a time when tables are crowded with dishes of steaming meats and vegetables and plates covered with sugary, spicy baked goods. It is an occasion for gift-giving, of gaily wrapped presents piled in colourful chaos under a lighted