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This year’s Extension Miners Memorial service, Ladysmith’s annual tribute to the 32 miners who lost their lives in a tragic explosion on Oct. 5, 1909, was held last week in front of the Metal Collage on the corner of First Avenue and Gatacre Street.
Read MoreIt was on the news that legendary country music star Loretta Lynn died, aged 90.
Read MoreAs you may have seen in the news, and in last week’s Chronicle, North Cowichan Municipality is looking to expand Mountain View Cemetery into an adjoining forest of mature fir and maple trees—proving that even dead people come first.
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 MoreFrom the craggy shores of Isle Arran they came, five brothers seeking their fortunes in the New World.
Read MoreHousing, as we continually see in the news, is at a critical low in the Cowichan Valley.
Read MoreI’ve long joked that I’ve sunk more ships than Lord Nelson—in print. And I owe that dubious claim, in part, to a lady who, long ago, did me a small favour.
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 MoreAs entertainment convener for the Cowichan Historical Society, I’d just announced that the next month’s speaker would be John Adams of the Old Cemeteries Society, Victoria
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 MoreOne of his best stories is that of Anna Ullman, a young woman who set out to hike the Yukon Telegraph line from Hazelton to Telegraph Creek in 1932.
Read MoreFor years, I shunned Facebook. But, recently, social media savvy friends convinced me that I was missing the boat…
Read MoreOzzie Hutchings, machinist by trade, historian and clock repairman by choice, was a born storyteller as you’ll see in this week’s Chronicles with his blood chilling story…
Read MoreI recently reported that a new book has been released across the line in Washington. Byron Riblet: Forgotten Engineering Genius by Ty A. Brown is the second book written in recent years of the man
Read MoreHow is that a provincial government can’t adequately fund a humble historic site such as Point Ellice House?
Read MoreRomantic though it may seem to some today, Victoria’s famous sealing industry was a brutal business.
Read MoreI’ll begin this week on a sombre note, courtesy of the British Columbia Historical Federation…
Read MoreBased primarily on Carlton Stone’s Hillcrest: A History of Vancouver Island’s Hillcrest Lumber Company by Duncan author/historian Ian MacInnes. This is the conclusion of two parts.
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 MoreEven today, 72 years after his death, Carlton Stone is a legend in the Cowichan Valley.
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