To appreciate Wilson Duff’s biography, you need not know who he was—Wilson Duff Coming Back, a Life is about more than just one man.
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The owner of the Antique Barn is always on the lookout for interesting artifacts. His most recent purchase? A military jet.
In January 1913, Chief Constable David Stephenson heaves on a pair of wooden oars. He rows towards Kahklutter, the luck stone—a partly submerged chunk of…
In February 2022, I peered into the glass doors of the Nanaimo archives and met Archives Manager, Christine Meutzner to talk about her 25 years…
On the northern tip of Vancouver Island, a low-lying fog obscures the treetops. The Island’s knotty, mountainous spine, and the brooding faces of the Coast…
On one of those cold, foggy days we had near the end of January 2022, I pushed through the glass doors at the Cumberland Museum…
A turkey vulture soars in a thermal updraft at the upper edge of the troposphere in 1913. Below, the temperate rainforest of Vancouver Island appears…
At the turn of the twentieth century, a would-be investor in Victoria, BC sat down with his morning coffee and opened a booklet entitled There’s…