June 6 is the 75th Anniversary of the DDay landings in Normandy. In honour of this anniversary, I thought I would make a post about my wife Theresa’s grandfather, George W. Johnston. You might remember him from a very nice story that appeared in 2014 about a collector, Jordan Chiasson, finding and returning the helmet …
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A powerful statement by Mayor Josie Osborne (original Westerly article). Thank you Mayor Osborne. I am not going to comment further as there is no need. What I will do below the video is share names of families from Tofino, Ucluelet and Clayoquot that I have discovered in my research about internment. List of Japanese-Canadians …
Eventually making the right decision is always better than not making it. On May 13 Council voted down, 2-4 (Councillor Paulson was away) a motion --- made by the Mayor and seconded by Councillor Corbeil --- to retain ownership of the treed portion of the Harbour View land. On May 27, the Mayor asked Council …
