How 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.
Read MoreLet’s begin by congratulating Blake MacKenzie for his fine job of creating and nurturing Gold Trails and Ghost Towns, a Facebook page that just passed the 70,000-member mark.
Read MoreFurther to my comments last week re: the recycling of building materials, in particular first-growth fir lumber, via controlled demolition rather than by pulverizing it with machines and adding it to the landfills…
Read MoreIt’s not often that I read the news these days and have a truly positive reaction, but today’s front page of the Times Colonist is a double-header.
Read MoreThere’s lots happening so let’s start with the most time-sensitive…
Read MoreIf someone were to challenge me today with that old canard, “History is dull,” I’d whip out this recent article from the Times Colonist.
Read MoreRecently, the Chronicles noted that B.C.’s fifth oldest municipality revised its crest to include the Cowichan Valley’s original inhabitants and this theme of Reconciliation will be integral to 2023 anniversary events.
Read MoreIf anyone really believes that history is about the past, the long ago, they’re not keeping up with current news.
Read MoreLast week, I complained that Nanaimo doesn’t really remember or honour its coal mining history when the 135th anniversary of the No. 1 Esplanade Mine disaster, the second worst in Canadian history, passed without a word in the NewsBulletin.
Read MoreLast week I wrote of various Remembrance services and historic anniversaries that all came within a week of the Chronicles going to press.
Read MoreIt was a week of remembrance ceremonies.
Read MoreLast week’s editorial reference to a nickel candy bar prompted reader Bill Irvine to write…
Read MoreIt’s a hard world out there, even for some of the giants. Latest to fall, or almost, is K-Mart, from a high of 2000 outlets now down to three stores in the continental U.S. What a far cry from decades ago.
Read MoreCoincidental to another anniversary of Vimy Ridge that has just come and gone, I’m reading The Madman and the Butcher by award-winning historical writer Tim Cook.
Read MoreOne of the downsides of being a one-man-band is the inability to do everything right every time; errors and omissions are inevitable, sometimes costly.
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