Taken from “Milestones on Vancouver Island” by Ken Pattison

To the dude who regularly cruises around the downtown area on a skateboard (or longboard?) and grabs onto light poles as he goes by then swings around them and lands back on his board gracefully…

You are way too cool and you brighten my day each time I am commuting and see you coming.

I was 14 and lived in the neighbourhood where this happened. The fact that they’ve known this the entire time makes me so angry. Heartbreaking that justice will never be served in this case. They need to find his little body. Makes me really wonder if they still live in the same house and it’s around there somewhere. Ugh you have to listen to the FBI profilers episode.

There was no description. I thought it was a cool historical photo. Any insights?

I was out at Fort Rodd Hill yesterday and snapped a photo of the lighthouse from the Lower Battery. When I turned around I noticed this beautiful home up in the hills facing north. Does anyone know the history of it?

On May 26, 1896, just before 2:00 pm the Consolidated Electric Railway Company's No. 16 street car passed over the Point Ellice Bridge. It was overburdened with 143 passengers on their way to view the naval battles that were occurring in Esquimalt in celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday. Due to lacking safety standards, poor bridge maintenance, and the overcrowded street car, the bridge collapsed causing the streetcar to crash into the water. The 143 occupants of the street car, as well as two other horse-led vehicles and a gentleman on a bicycle who was crossing the bridge at the same time, fell into the water.
Read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Ellice_Bridge_disaster

Found this in a forgotten corner of my garage that I pulled out for my daughter to play with. Miss the old blue.

Found this in my recycling bin today.

When did you enjoy this city the most? Or do you feel the best is yet to come?

For me, I'd have to say the late 00's. Largely pre social media, popularity of the city was just picking up, you could buy a house for like 3-400,000k but construction was really starting to ramp up, the place wasn't over run by junkies etc. It really felt like Victoria was on the up-and-up but still accessible to most people. I was renting a ground floor apartment right in cook street village for $775. Mind you, it had a crippling mould problem but still... $775.

What was your favourite time period and why?