It has all the makings of a great detective story, clearly up to the standard of the Hercule Poirot or Inspector Maigret. And we don’t have to go to some exotic place like London or Paris—it all happened right here!! The story, set in 1924, begins with an abandoned boat found drifting off Turn Point […]
In 1918 there were three rail lines serving the Saanich Peninsula. The first to arrive (1894) was the Victoria and Sidney Railway that departed Victoria near present-day Topaz Avenue. It worked north, roughly parallel to Blanshard Ave. Near present-day Broadmead Ave it veered off to the west and skirted around the western edge of Elk
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This song takes us back a long way—before Canada came to be. It involves some of the complex negotiations and social forces that led to the whole of Vancouver Island remaining British—despite American expansionism that would have had it otherwise. In the east, the Great Lakes made a fine natural boundary between the British
Some years ago I was on a volunteer group that was assigned the task of trying to improve Butterfield Park by removing invasive plant species and planting and tending the kind of horticulture varieties that Gertrude Butterfield and her daughter Hilda might have tended during the early part of the twentieth century. I had sketched
