Islander

It came as no surprise that Tim Cormode would set an example during Thursday’s charity golf tournament benefiting Power To Be, the outdoor adventure-therapy non-profit.

From a five-minute boat ride out of downtown Victoria to halfway to Port Angeles, record numbers of humpback whales are foraging, leaping and singing to the awe of naturalists and tourists alike.

There is a rich vein in Canadian art that uses our national identity as its theme. Cornelius Krieghoff made much of life in British North America, and the Group of Seven developed our True North imagery.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 5, 1939. When we left Vancouver on the plane for Ottawa, it was six o’clock on a fine, warm evening.

Elfriede’s real estate In 2004, Elfriede Lippa sold her house on Jedburgh Road in View Royal for $275,000. She bought a 1,000-square-foot condo at 924 Cook St. for $169,000 and put almost $100,000 in the bank. She had no mortgage.

Compulsive gambling led Elfriede Lippa into bankruptcy at 91 after she ran through the better part of $300,000, mainly by remortgaging her paid-off Victoria condo. Her son and daughter say they were in the dark until it was far too late to help.

Wolfgang Paalen, a big-league European surrealist, and Emily Carr, the great Canadian modernist, met at her studio in Victoria in August 1939. This sounds like a momentous event.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 29, 1939. There is a great body of opinion against the shipping of war material to Japan. A few days ago, I saw a petition, presented by a Chinese boy with pages and pages of names.

Judging by the upbeat atmosphere at Esquimalt’s Memorial Park on Tuesday night, quoting the lyrics of a classic Trooper song seems appropriate. Nearly 300 music lovers of all ages were there “for a good time, not a long time” from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Canada’s largest summer lunch program, delivering free lunches on a daily basis for underprivileged kids attending subsidized summer camps in nine cities across Canada, launched last week in Victoria.