Islander

This column originally appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on April 6, 1940. Daffodils and crocuses are thronging the roadway now, pushing their way up through the grass in all their golden glory.

Growing up in Alberta in the 1960s, before the Oilers and the Flames and before the rest of the National Hockey League arrived on the scene, Chris Gainor dreamed of going to the stars rather than becoming one.

Island Health has been named one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in relation to an employment program created to encourage workplace diversity and inclusiveness.

The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview ; By Robert J. Muckle; UBC Press, 184 pp., $27.

For the past four decades, the Victoria Folk Music Society has stuck firmly to its original mandate: Raise the profile of folk music in Victoria.

Celebrate the talents of hundreds of authors who work and live in the province during Read Local B.C., a provincewide campaign launched by the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia.

Long before Madama Butterfly star Jee Hye Han’s curtain call prompted a standing ovation at the Royal Theatre Thursday night, many were singing the praises of its production company.

Lured by an exhibit about the Kabuki theatre of Japan, I dropped in to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria recently. It’s based on the gallery’s unparallelled collection of Japanese woodcut prints.

Paul Hurst’s favourite things about View Royal’s new public safety building aren’t its fitness centre, its automated alert system or its plush chairs with built-in cupholders.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 23, 1940. Somewhere, Over the Rainbow received the award for the best song of the year, and there will not be many who differ from the decision.