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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on May 18, 1940.

In this excerpt from Black Diamond City, author Jan Peterson reveals scenes from the earliest days of coal mining in the area, before the massive influx of foreign labour that was to come, when members of the local Snuneymuxw First Nation worked in p

Three First Nations women embarked on their Miyo-wicehtowin (Cree for “living in harmony together”) walk across Canada this week to bring awareness to lateral violence in aboriginal communities.

How the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, sparked anti-German violence

After seeing all those orange balloons and matching goodie bags at the Empress Hotel on Wednesday, I almost felt as if I’d inadvertently crashed an NDP victory celebration.

Such happy memories: Sitting beside Toni Onley on the dock, as he stoked his pipe and considered his next brush stroke; watching Maarten Schaddelee peel off a curl of cedar for a delighted child; looking on as Nancy Slaght worked on a pastel painting

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on May 4, 1940 The Red Cross is one of the few humanitarian ideas that has ever become a reality. Above the barbarism of our times, it stands out as a great monument to the 19th century.

Recently, Emily Urquhart, a Victoria writer and folklorist, took her four-year-old daughter Sadie to a birthday party. As a treat, all the little girls were given “princess” hairdos. One adult made a comment about Sadie.

More than 1,000 colourful and historic tiles on the outside of the old Oak Bay High School are being saved and mounted on a two-storey interior wall of the replacement school, now under construction.

Ada Minderhoud was six years old and living near Rotterdam when the Germans invaded Holland in 1940. It would be five years before Allied troops, many of them Canadian, liberated the country.