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Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices April 2014 The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same: Neighbours Over The Years – Feud at the Sheringham Point Lighthouse It was a different world in the 1921, or was it? The Stanley Cup playoffs would still end in frustration for a Vancouver hockey team (Ottawa Senators…
Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices Book Review: Hostile Seas: A Mission In Pirate Waters (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013, 253 pages) Former Victoria resident, Jen L. Savidge, with her first book, has offered readers a glimpse into life on a Canadian Navy deployment that is both informative and personal. Her book effectively combines the parameters of life…
Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices Victoria’s Welsh Society: The Long Reach of the Welsh What have Hong Kong, Patagonia, Oslo, and Victoria have in common? They all have Welsh Societies! There are almost 500 societies worldwide and they include choirs, language groups, and dance clubs, from Arizona and Australia to Zimbabwe. Canada alone has 43 societies…
Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices Vancouver Island Sommelier Adds Colour(ing) To Wines Louise Wilson, a Master of Wine candidate from Victoria and international promoter of Peller Estate Wines, has added new meaning to viniculture colour. VICTORIA, BC, Dec. 18, 2012/ Bon Voyage/James Ellsworth A University of Calgary grad, who relocated to Victoria from 2002-2010 and, most recently…
Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices Victoria takes summer seriously and one key event is the Taste-Festival of Food and Wine. Kathy McAree, a culinary aficionada who loves to share her passion for local produce, decided five years ago to stage a festival that would emphasize British Columbia by featuring Vancouver Island wineries and Victoria restaurants….
Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices Preparing For The Big One, Developing The Emergency Survival Kit People were sufficiently scared by recent earthquakes to seriously prepare for their own survival. They took advice & gathered caches for 3-day emergencies Civic leaders and environmentalists have been warning about the increased likelihood of a cataclysmic earthquake along the…
Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices The provincial capital is home to the only self-funded museum & castle which promotes tourism and history in equal measure, focusing on the Dunsmuir Family. Within the wood-paneled walls of Victoria’s bonanza castle known as Craigdorroch (pronounced CRAIG DARE awk)) there exists a century’s microcosm of local history….