In place of an editorial this week, here are some of the many comments I’ve received over the years in response to my writings about Molly Justice, the subject of today’s Chronicle. I’ve attached my answers where I think they bear repeating.
Read MoreAn interesting WANTED ad in last week’s Citizen caught my eye: “In the 1950s float planes replaced the steamships as the preferred mode of travel on the West Coast.
Read MoreThanks to the wonderful voice(s) of the late ‘Fireside’ Alan Maitland, The Shepherd, the story of a British Vampire jet fighter pilot flying home from Germany on Christmas Eve, 1957, is, in my humble opinion, the finest half-hour radio drama of all time.
Read MoreEveryone knows about the murals of Chemainus; they are, after all, internationally famous. A new project on the local scene was recently announced, the Que’utsun Festival of Murals…
Read MoreBlack Diamond mines is a historic site where 5 different communities developed during the coal mining era of 1860-1906. What we have left are the mines; we give tours, a cemetery, and a story that continues to be told.
Read MoreNurturing and conserving history, as is the case of almost everything else in life, requires effort, enthusiasm—and money.
All of our provincial museums, historic attractions—even those that enjoy the rare luxury of various degrees of public funding—rely upon cores of dedicated volunteers. The Cowichan Valley is no exception.
Read MoreWho 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.
Read MoreLest we forget....
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…
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