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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 24, 1937. There is a substantial stone house on Ash Road in Gordon Head that looks out across an orchard to the sea.

At the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, I met Hitomi Harama, curator of one of two shows that introduce the traditional Japanese culture of the costume.

Real-photo postcards were an art form of the early part of the 20th century.

The walls of the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, inside and out, are festooned with images of athletes who used its facilities to springboard to Olympics, Paralympics and World Cups long after the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games faded from v

Sarah Hunt was a precocious force when she started her studies at the University of Victoria at the age of 17. At that time, the mid-1990s, many First Nations students struggled to make it through high school.

Leanne Rooney is trying to decide what to plant above her husband鈥檚 grave.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on June 12, 1937. When eastern people think of Saskatchewan, I am afraid the only picture that comes to their mind is that of a dry country, parched and dusty.

Before achieving fame as North America鈥檚 beloved 鈥淏ard of the North,鈥� the British poet Robert Service spent seven years on Vancouver Island, from 1896 to 1903, working at a variety of jobs from farm hand to road builder to bank clerk.

This is the first in a series of columns that will appear every other Sunday, leading up to the party on Aug. 23 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Victoria鈥檚 Commonwealth Games.

The public areas of the Coast Victoria Harbourside Hotel (126聽Kingston St., 250-360-1211) are richly hung with canvases by Janet Etter, who is for the month of June the artist in residence.