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Until I embraced the digital age and all that it offers, including finger-touch research capabilities, my most thumbed reference books were the Oxford Dictionary, the B.C. Department of Mines’ Annual Reports, the British Columbia Gazetteer and Capt. John T. Walbran’s British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906.
Read MoreMore than a century after he was immortalized in bronze, his honorary title is to be erased in the name of Reconciliation.
Read MoreUp until recent years, Penelakut Island, east of Chemainus and midway between Saltair and Ladysmith, was known as Kuper Island. It was originally named, as were 100s of other B.C. geographical place names, after a British naval officer.
Read MoreA stroll along Ladysmith’s Sixth Avenue is a stroll into the past—Boer War era.
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