Wesley Shennan
Wesley Shennan is a descendant of a man who paddled 4,000 kilometres in a birch bark canoe across Canada in the 1790’s; and has ancestors who escaped from France wearing white shirts as Huguenots in the 1500’s. As a young man, colonial teaching and racial suppression made him simultaneously proud and ashamed of his heritage, but today he accepts and celebrates who he is. He lives in Kelowna, BC writing, singing and playing guitar, and then travelling to south America to extend his summers.