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	<description>Notable articles from the Victoria Times Colonist&#039;s Islander Magazine</description>
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		<title>Helmcken&#8217;s Memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctor John Sebastien Helmcken is one of the most well known members of Victoria&#8217;s original pioneer community. In this 1961 Islander article, &#8220;Helmcken Memoirs Name His Villains&#8221; author James K. Nesbitt provides some interest excerpts from Helmcken&#8217;s personal memoirs. As a former member of the colonial legislature, Helmcken vividly describes colonial politics and political life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gibson Twin-Plane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the September of  1910, William Wallace Gibson made Canadian Aviation history in the fields of a small farm near Mount Tolmie in Victoria. Perched atop a horse saddle at the controls of a wood and fabric aircraft, Gibson became the first Canadian ever to pilot wholly Canadian built aircraft. Islander author Iain Lawrence describes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Old Rock Bay Bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its is likely that many Victorians are aware of the present controversy surrounding the elderly Johnson Street bridge. As it turns out, arguing about bridges in Victoria goes back further than the Big Blue Bridge. For over fifty years the wooden Rock Bay Bridge, which was located at the end of  Store Street in downtown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brother Twelve (Part Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Once his band of settlers became accustomed to the rough life in the Cedar By The Sea colony, Brother Twelve launched a second promotional campaign in an attempt to raise even more money and convert more people to his cause. After mailing a series of letters containing a self published pamphlet called &#8220;The Chalice&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brother Twelve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Arthur Wilson, otherwise known as Brother Twelve, was one of the most curious, and disconcerting characters to have ever lived in British Columbia. Beginning his life in Canada as an office clerk, Wilson eventually gained notoriety as the head of a sinister pseudo-religious cult based in the Gulf Islands and was later the defendant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mail Plane Crashes in Victoria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of aviation in British Columbia, accidents occurred quite frequently. In his article &#8220;Mail Plane Crashed on home of senator &#8211; in time for breakfast&#8221; Islander writer John Green describes the October morning in 1926, when the Victoria to Seattle Mail plane crashed into the home of his great uncle. Senator Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Famous Artist Next Door (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://victoriahistory.ca/blog/2010/08/the-famous-artist-next-door-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Emily Carr moved into the rundown cottage on Beckley street in James Bay, next to Bert Hudson&#8217;s house, relationships between the new neighbour&#8217;s were not always peaceable. Hudson explains Really Miss Carr could not have chosen a less likely family to live beside. My father was a stubborn pioneer from the Canadian Prairie.  Painting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Famous Artist Next Door</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 1930&#8242;s, as a 14 year old boy, Bert Hudson lived on Beckley Avenue in James Bay. One day, a new neighbour moved into the vacant cottage next door to his families home. Unbeknownst to the Hudson&#8217;s, the severe older woman who had moved into 316 Beckley Avenue was the artist Emily Carr. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sophia Disaster</title>
		<link>http://victoriahistory.ca/blog/2010/08/the-sophia-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October of 1918, British Columbia experienced its worst nautical disaster. T.W. Patterson describes the events surrounding the loss of the 2, 320-ton Sophia and 343 of her passengers and crew. Winter struck the west coast early and hard in 1918. Driven off course during a blinding snow storm, the Sophia grounded onto Vanderbilt Reef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Burned Poor Higgins in Effigy</title>
		<link>http://victoriahistory.ca/blog/2010/07/they-burned-poor-higgins-in-effigy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pioneer journalist and newspaper man David William Higgins was at times, extremely unpopular in Victoria.As editor of The Colonist newspaper and successor to the quirky previous editor, Amor de Cosmos, Higgins enjoyed his fair share of conflict and controversy. James K. Nesbitt dug up this story, published The Standard, a rival newspaper, which exemplifies the brutal [...]]]></description>
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