Waste in wartime, chided the Leader, was nothing less than rank treason!
“...long and fearful record of mysterious assassinations that have occurred in this Colony during the past 11 years.”
“They never knew what hit them. Their hair burnt white and their bodies black.”—Draegerman Jock Gilmour.
It was his unfailing cheerfulness that astounded hospital staff and that his brother Walt remembers 70 years later.
“I killed myself, in an hour, in the river that runs through one of our claims, 16 trout, some weighing over three pounds.”—William H. Lee.
From Cowichan, loggers, farmers, navvies, sawmill workers, bank clerks, merchants and volunteer firemen, all were off to Victoria to enlist.
Like the mythical phoenix, Haslam rose from the ashes — once. The second time, he wasn’t so lucky.
“We would rather never have the Railway than have one at the price proposed by the last parliament.”—letter to the editor.
“Keen interest and much amusement were the outcome of the hat trimming and cigar and soda water races...”—Cowichan Leader, 1903.
Although it doesn’t rank with the infamous trunk murders of Brighton, New Orleans, Vancouver does have its own sort-of ‘trunk murder.’
Some evenings Bill, then a young boy, would accompany his father on his rounds, with only a miner’s lamp to light their way
There's so much happening in the news these days that has historical roots that I hardly know where to begin let alone how to keep up...
As a solitary old Songhees watched mournfully, the senseless white axed and sawed Father Time into firewood.
February 1898. The fabled Trail of ‘98 was in full swing and Nell was to be part of it.
Victoria’s Old Cemeteries Society has established a special Nellie Cashman Fund to raise money for a centennial stone
Victoria’s Old Cemeteries Society has established a special Nellie Cashman Fund to raise money for a centennial stone
Her name was synonymous with warmth and generosity in every mining camp from Mexico to Alaska.
Now semi-derelict, the motor vessel Laurier II has worked both sides of the law in her 80-year career.
A little-known saga in Cowichan Valley forestry history ‘celebrates’ its centennial this year.
“Indications point to the probability of a deposit which may prove almost inexhaustible.”—Cowichan Leader.
