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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Nov. 2, 1940.

鈥淐uriouser and curiouser!鈥� remains one of Alice in Wonderland鈥檚 most famous statements, prompted when the immortal lass of Victorian literature has just eaten a cake that makes her tower nine feet tall.

The Victoria Hospice was presented with a cheque for $26,200 by 100+ Women Who Care Victoria last week. The group of generous women meet for one hour, four times a year.

Tensions between Britain, U.S. revolved around ownership of the San Juan Islands

When Kilian Loftis arrived at University of Victoria, he was surprised to learn there was no campus club he could join to go group-cycling, so he started his own.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was at the centre of the Irish renaissance at the turn of the 20th century. He created a national literature for Ireland, part of a national identity that helped the Irish throw off English imperialism.

If there鈥檚 a famous movie character Victoria film commissioner Kathleen Gilbert can relate to, it would have to be Michael Corleone in The Godfather III.

It鈥檚 paw-ty time again as man and his best friend strut the catwalk in the latest fashions at the eighth annual Man and His Dog fashion show on Thursday.

Volunteering opportunities pitched at the University of Victoria this past Thursday were as diverse and plentiful as the 59 organizations that participated in a Volunteer Victoria fair there.

Really? An art column on rug hooking? The International Guild of Handhooking Rugmakers is holding its triannual conference at the Laurel Point Inn in Victoria this week. About 200 devotees from Britain, Australia, Japan, the U.S.