Who was it who said, “The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history?
And, does history really repeat itself?
My latest project, Celebrate Cowichan, what I believe to be the Valley’s only scenic 2023 Calendar.
I have two more Christmas markets coming up: the Shawnigan Lake Recreation Centre and Queen Margaret’s School this coming Saturday, the 26th, and Providence Farm on Saturday, Dec. 3rd.
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Well, another historic Cowichan Valley icon bit the dust this week.
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Read MoreThey say time flies when you’re having fun—it certainly does when you publish on a weekly basis while balancing several other balls in the air.
Read MoreAttention, bank robbers! The strangest things pop up on the internet.
Read MoreThe thing that so many people seem to forget, or not to understand, is that history isn’t just about the past, the long ago—it’s happening all around us all the time.
Read MoreI wonder how many people—even those who live in the Cowichan Valley—realize that Robert Service (1874-1958), the Bard of the Yukon, lived here for a time before he went to Dawson City as a bank clerk.
Read MoreIt was on the news that legendary country music star Loretta Lynn died, aged 90.
Read MoreThis week…a postscript to the story of the tragic Jamiesons whose curse also claimed the lives of numerous others, among them passengers of the various riverboats the brothers commanded.
Read MoreHousing, as we continually see in the news, is at a critical low in the Cowichan Valley.
Read MoreScarcely a day goes by without my finding something that’s historically topical in the newspaper. Three recent news stories rate as really ‘good’ news.
Read MoreI was overjoyed to read in the Times Colonist recently that Langford has named a new park off Bear Mountain Parkway, Flying Firemen Park.
Read MoreFor years, I shunned Facebook. But, recently, social media savvy friends convinced me that I was missing the boat…
Read MoreHow is that a provincial government can’t adequately fund a humble historic site such as Point Ellice House?
Read MoreI’ll begin this week on a sombre note, courtesy of the British Columbia Historical Federation…
Read MoreI’ll begin with this note from reader and friend Bill Irvine who commented on my reference to excavation for the new Telus building in Victoria which has alerted historians to the potential loss of artifacts from historic Kanaka Row
Read MoreThere’s been something of a flap in Victoria this past week where contractors are excavating the site of the new Telus building at Humboldt and Douglas streets, once home of Kanaka Row.
Read MoreA lot’s happening on various historical fronts and, alas, I can’t pass the buck to guest columnist Bill Irvine this week, so here goes...
Read MoreWell, it appears that summer has finally arrived—for awhile, anyway, if you go by our long, drawn-out wet, rinse-and-repeat spring weather.
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