Photo Gallery on the Times Colonist
Showing Gallery: Greater Victoria photos, Feb. 4 - 11
Top photos from around the city this past week.
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Two painted dragons are strung across Government Street, near Fisgard Street, in VictoriaÍs Chinatown on Saturday. Artist Steve Milroy spent more than 400 hours painting the six aluminum panels, which depict King Dragons on either side of a flaming pearl.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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The Tenors at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre: Performance left no two-Kleenex ballad unsung.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: Westshore Wolves and Victoria Cougars at Bear Mountain Arena.
Photograph by: BRUCE STOTESBURY, Times Colonist
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Tuesday: Kelly and Owen Bradley have started an on-line petition at www.change.org calling for a specialized hospital unit to treat children experiencing a mental health crisis.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: Chief Petty Officer Second Class, David Wilson, checks the lines on board the HMCS Nanaimo after a dressing ship ceremony to celebrate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Thursday: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond speaks during a news conference while releasing an investigation report into the life of a young boy mistreated in ministry care.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Friday: Traffic was shut down at Admirals and Woodway early Friday morning as police investigated an accident scene in which a 90-year-old driver died.
Photograph by: BRUCE STOTESBURY, Times Colonist
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Monday: City of Victoria workers Paul Vandenboomen,left, and Jimmy Warwick use the new split packer truck to pick up kitchen scraps in James Bay.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Friday: -Camosun Chargers Morgan Marshall,left, and Hilary Graham block a spike by Capilano Blues Alexis Sebok in a PACWEST women's volleyball match at the Pacific Centre for Sports Excellence.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Victoria Royals Brandon Magee and Seattle Thunderbirds Shea Theodore chase the puck in WHL action at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre last week.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Victoria Royals Brandon Magee and Seattle Thunderbirds Shea Theodore chase the puck in WHL action at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre last week.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Friday: At the Royal B.C. Museum, visitors look at the oldest-known Chinese Freemason's lantern in Victoria. The handmade paper and bamboo lantern dates from between 1910 and 1930.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Wednesday:S tephanie Karemaker, Rachel Foisy and Gillian Adams dressed up as superheroes for the screening of Wonder Women! at the Vic Theatre for Victoria Film Festival.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Friday: Caribe Niemann of the Saanich Skating Club of Victoria skates in the Star 3A girls category in the Vancouver Island Regional Skating Championships at the Archie Browning Sports Centre.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins and Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin have a cup of coffee on two new Adirondack chairs the City of Victoria donated as a centennial gift on the West Bay Walkway.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Victoria Times Colonist
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Monday: Curler Lucas Savage, who is battling cancer, has his last round of chemo 4 days after team goes to provincials.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Monday: Barry Thomson and Kara Ferguson, partners in the Tartan Toque, a new wings joint.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Tuesday: Health Challenger Suzie Spitfyre works out at Crystal Pool with trainer Jonathan Carpenter
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: A car crashed into a backhoe at the intersection of Government and Chatham.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Thursday: Samantha Bolen at Bolen's. The store is going through a renovation worth about $600,000 on the interior alone. .
Photograph by: BRUCE STOTESBURY, Times Colonist
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Saturday: A few of the founding members of the Street Survival Guide, Diane Clarke, Doug Fraser (R) and Peter Nykulaik.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Dancers perform in rehearsal for Pacific Opera Victoria's production of Albert Herring at the Royal Theatre.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Tuesday: Seattle Thunderbirds Connor Sanvido lands on Victoria Royals Taylor Crunk in WHL action at the Save on Foods Memorial Centre.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Thursday: Cars travel along Quadra street past a gas station posting the new price of gas in Victoria.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Saturday: HerWay Home co-ordinator Amanda Seymour during a news conference in Victoria.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Tuesday: Chard Condo project waits to break ground.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: Guardrail construction started on the Ogden Point breakwater.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: Jared Nyberg brews Doke estate Rolling Thunder, Bihar India.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Saturday: Rob Reid celebrating 25 years in business at Frontrunners.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Thursday: Shauna Douglas and 10-month-old Naomi Douglas.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Thursday: Bartlett Tree Experts remove trees from 600 block of Michigan Street.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
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Friday: Emergency responders attend to accident at Bay and Government.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Tuesday: A ladder from Fire Hall 3 is tested in Victoria.
Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist
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Wednesday: Guardrail construction started on the Ogden Point breakwater.
Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Victoria Times Colonist
