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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 16, 1940. A big, throaty voice was calling on the radio for leaders.

Inte att h盲nda. That鈥檚 Swedish for not gonna happen. As in: There are no plans, possibilities or even a weenie little hope that Ikea will open so much as a pickup counter in Victoria, never mind one of its behemoth home-furnishing stores.

The column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 9, 1940. No matter how tangled any thread is, if we look at a small enough part of it, it seems to lie straight. So it is in life.

Picking the 10 Best Heritage Houses in our region was a daunting task.

Historical images from Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island

What鈥檚 happening with the Turner building, that unusual curved edifice near Royal Jubilee Hospital that once housed Ian鈥檚 Coffee Stop? Will anything be built on the empty lot where the Mayfair bowling lanes once stood? Greater Victoria has many empty

Historical images from Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island

Grafton Tyler Brown became the first professional artist in the province when he reinvented himself in his move to British Columbia in 1882.

Nanaimo journalist and historian Jan Peterson lived in Port Alberni from 1972 to 1996, where she worked as a reporter for the Alberni Valley Times.

A dozen years ago, cougar numbers on Vancouver Island had plummeted to 400 or fewer, barely half the total from the mid-1990s.