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William Ronald Reid Jr., was born in Victoria, British Columbia; his father was American William Ronald Reid Sr., of Scottish-German descent [7] and his mother, Sophie Gladstone Reid, was from the Kaadaas gaah Kiiguwaay, Raven/Wolf Clan of T'anuu, more commonly known as the Haida, one of the First Nations of the Pacific coast. [8]
Bill Reid (1920-1998) was an acclaimed master goldsmith, carver, sculptor, writer, broadcaster, mentor and community activist. Reid was born in Victoria, BC to a Haida mother and an American father with Scottish German roots, and only began exploring his Haida roots at the age of 23.
Bill Reid was born on January 12, 1920, in Victoria, British Columbia. His father, William Reid (1884–1943), was a hotelier at the time, managing an inn in Hyder, Born in the Detroit area to a family with German-Scottish roots, William Reid left home at the age of sixteen to work on the railway.
Bill Reid was born in Victoria, B.C., in 1920. Although in his early years unaware of his Haida ancestry, he was to become perhaps the single most important figure in the late twentieth century renaissance of Haida culture -- a culture almost destroyed after the European colonization of the Haida homeland on the Northwest Coast.
Jan 9, 2020 · Bill Reid was born in 1920 in Victoria, BC. His father was an American of Scottish-German origin and his mother a Haida, born in Skidegate, and descendent of a lineage from T’anuu, Haida Gwaii. Photo by Bill McLennan.
Dec 23, 2020 · Reid's mother, Sophie Gladstone, was born on Haida Gwaii, B.C., where she grew up in Skidegate, one of the few Haida villages that remained after disease decimated many West Coast First...
Oct 24, 2010 · William Ronald Reid, sculptor (born 12 January 1920 in Victoria, BC; died 13 March 1998 in Vancouver, BC). An internationally recognized Haida artist, Bill Reid is frequently credited with the revival and innovative resurgence of Northwest Coast Indigenous arts in the contemporary world.
