Islander

There is a community of artists in Victoria who aren’t seen in commercial galleries, are not employed by the University of Victoria and yet have been creative workers of considerable skill in our city for many years.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 17, 1940. I will lose my faith if we do not win this war. Three times this week I have heard this, and I feel I must deal with it.

Raise funds to benefit the B.C. Lions Society’s Easter Seals Camping Program while discovering your inner warrior in the first Woman2Warrior event in Victoria, which takes place next Sunday.

Cpl. Kelly Risling thinks the least he can do for someone who dies in anonymity and stays without a name year in, year out, is try to solve the mystery of who they are.

Buffed and gleaming vehicles were lined up in tidy rows at the annual Vancouver Island Motor Gathering held last weekend at the Viscount Aero Centre in Sidney, but one seemed to have a mind of its own.

It’s not every day that a genuine wartime hero comes to town.

On Thursday, volunteers helped unload 600 back to school packs for distribution to children going back to school.

Following the arrival of Europeans on the Northwest Coast, the ancient First Nations arts of canoe design and navigation quickly went into decline, and for decades were nearly lost. In the excerpt below, B.C.

What’s not to love about the thunderous sights and sounds of the Snowbirds soaring and swooping in precise, jaw-dropping formations on Victoria’s oceanfront? “It’s such a rush,” exclaimed Sophia Miles, one of 40,000 fans who lined Dallas Road to watc

My friend Derek came to visit from Massachusetts, and we took a bicycle ride through our lovely city. After rolling along Beach Drive, we stopped at Harling Point, the oldest Chinese cemetery in the country.