Islander

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Jan. 28, 1939.

As millions of viewers will discover tonight, there was something extra special about Michaela Pereira’s whirlwind homecoming to Victoria last September.

As cool as it was hanging out with Céline Dion, visiting David Foster at his Malibu mansion and trading childhood wisecracks with the late Ed McMahon, Jamie Cormier’s life today isn’t nearly as glamorous.

Helen Rogak speaks confidently and with patience. The things she says might seem simple and self-evident, but I found after spending an hour talking with her, I took away much that will stay with me.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Jan. 14, 1939. It is always new, this wildering beauty of the foothill country. From the time the train leaves Calgary, the magic grows.

Times Colonist reporter Katie DeRosa is on leave in England, where she is completing a master’s degree at the London School of Economics.

If the Scots in the Hotel Grand Pacific ballroom felt threatened having their legendary whiskies upstaged on the world stage last year by a Canadian competitor, they weren’t showing it.

Local volunteers, including Langford Fire Chief Bob Beckett, are appealing for donations for their upcoming trip to help an orphanage in Haiti.

It can be lonely and dangerous living on the streets. It comes as no surprise that some of the city’s homeless find comfort and companionship with a pet.

A hundred years ago, my grandfather went to war and upon his return obtained land in Langley to start a farm. A hundred years ago, First Nations formed the Allied Tribes of B.C. to stop such encroachment on their lands.