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Peter O鈥橰eilly landed in Victoria in early 1859 during the height of the Fraser River gold rush. Though he鈥檇 been reluctant to leave Ireland, he flourished in Canada, and played a critical role in shaping British Columbia.

Jon Tupper has a Vespa scooter, skinny jeans and outrageous socks. He makes the scene all over Victoria. He鈥檚 candid and charming and, for five years, has been the director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

This column originally appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on April 6, 1940. Daffodils and crocuses are thronging the roadway now, pushing their way up through the grass in all their golden glory.

Growing up in Alberta in the 1960s, before the Oilers and the Flames and before the rest of the National Hockey League arrived on the scene, Chris Gainor dreamed of going to the stars rather than becoming one.

Island Health has been named one of Canada鈥檚 Best Diversity Employers in relation to an employment program created to encourage workplace diversity and inclusiveness.

The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview ; By Robert J. Muckle; UBC Press, 184 pp., $27.

For the past four decades, the Victoria Folk Music Society has stuck firmly to its original mandate: Raise the profile of folk music in Victoria.

Celebrate the talents of hundreds of authors who work and live in the province during Read Local B.C., a provincewide campaign launched by the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia.

Long before Madama Butterfly star Jee Hye Han鈥檚 curtain call prompted a standing ovation at the Royal Theatre Thursday night, many were singing the praises of its production company.

Lured by an exhibit about the Kabuki theatre of Japan, I dropped in to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria recently. It鈥檚 based on the gallery鈥檚 unparallelled collection of Japanese woodcut prints.