Islander

This column originally appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 2, 1941. That’s a roomy title for one small column. It surely makes a wide-open gate into the meadows of imagination, through which anyone can go in and out and find pasture.

Frank Poole, a former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, recently received the French National Order of the Legion of Honour at the Veterans Memorial Lodge for his contribution in liberating France during the Second World War.

The Shelbourne Community Kitchen will be able to meet the increased need for food-security programming thanks to funding by the Victoria Foundation for a sustainability project.

As you’re reading this column, copies of our annual magazine, Pulse, are hitting the shelves around Greater Victoria, inviting you to take a read and discover what’s happening in our local non-profit community.

WASHINGTON — A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds. The eastern white pine is going west, more than 130 kilometres since the early 1980s.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, there’s a good bet that three days of colourful cultural overload may have gone a long way to initiating dialogue and building bridges between B.C.’s First Nation communities and the rest of the province.

New book explores former CHEK-TV host's life with an unstable con man

When the lead singer for Mexico City’s Out of Control Army punctuated the band’s brassy intro with “Are you ready to ska?” at Ship Point Wednesday afternoon, it was a question he really didn’t have to ask.

Jean Jacques André came to Victoria from Marseilles, France, where he had trained at the museum of natural history, and worked as a taxidermist.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 19, 1941. It is a pity that good white paper should be blotted with ugly words.