AUGUST 2002 – This wooden sculpture marks the northern end of the highway that connects Victoria and Port Hardy on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
Canada is always good for a surprise. When we drove from Campbell River towards Port Hardy, we enjoyed the awesome highway. Little did we know that it had been completed not that long ago.
When we did a walk in the evening, we encountered this giant wooden sculpture of a carrot that marks the northern end of the highway connecting Victoria and Port Hardy.
It’s a historic site today.
This carrot, marking the northern end of the Island Highway, is a symbol of government road building promises, dangled in front of north island settlers since 1897. The successful late 1970’s “Carrot Campaign” was aimed at making the government keep promises of a completed Island Highway.
Text Plate at Historic Site for the Carrot Campaign, Port Hardy, B.C.
I think this is an awesome achievement of the settlers!
Personally, I feel that we need many more of these ‘carrot campaigns’ – in all policy fields – as politicians keep making promises and almost always seem to forget about them once the election offices close. Maybe we should erect a monument whenever a promise is kept? 🙂
The high resolution image
| Capture Date | 14-AUG-2002 |
| Location | Port Hardy, B.C., Canada |
| Camera | Canon AE-1 Program |
| Image Source | Fuji Slide Film |
| Digital Image Source | Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, AdobeRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 2474 x 3711 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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