Islander

The Victoria Fish and Game Protective Association has presented a $4,000 cheque — proceeds from its annual dinner and fundraiser — to the Charters River Salmon Interpretive Centre.

When Catherine Holt took the helm of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce last May, she knew that despite her extensive business-leadership experience, there would be a learning curve.

Historic Canadian Art at Madrona Gallery, 606 View St., 250-380-4660, madronagallery.com , until March 28. Probably the most expensive painting ever shown at Victoria’s Madrona Gallery is a 1966 canvas by the late E.J. Hughes of Duncan.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 22, 1941. A namesake of mine wrote me a letter that has just come, and I am going to quote one paragraph from it.

An inside look at the building of three new coast guard vessels destined for fisheries research

Vessels under construction in North Vancouver will do trials off Victoria

Fleurs de Villes co-founders Tina Barkley and Karen Marshall didn’t have to think twice when deciding where to launch this year’s expanded edition of their unique fashion-design and fresh-florals event.

Over the past few years, Mary-ellen Threadkell and Nancy Slaght have been meeting on Monday afternoons, and now present their first show together.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 15, 1941.

For the third year in a row, local elementary schools will engage in mock sock battles as a way to win the real war of keeping the region’s street-entrenched and impoverished community warm and healthy. Fairfield United Church minister Rev.