Once, There Were Lepers
“British Columbia has a leper colony. Its existence is not widely known, for those who compose it are of a race whose affairs never reach the public ear.” So wrote […]
Category Archives: Landmarks
A Tale of Two Bridges: The Johnson Street Divide
What do this… …and this… …have in common? Answer: That’s right… Victoria’s 1924 Blue Bridge, a rare, patented overhead-counterweight version of the bascule-style bridge, was designed by the same brilliant […]
Victoria in 1936: MGM’s Traveltalk Newsreel
Long before blogs, long before TV, you’d be lucky if you had a chance to catch a newsreel playing in a theatre. Every now and then, you’d get something exotic, […]
Goodnight, Ogden Breakwater.
Witten at 10:08 PM on Sunday, February 3rd. It’s the end of an era tonight. When I’m wiping sleep from my eyes, workers will be barricading the Ogden Breakwater as […]
