Blast from the Past

Every month our Program & Education Manager shares a “Blast from the Past” in the popular qathet Living magazine. Here we have past articles for you to read! You can also access past qathet Living issues on their website.

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August 2023- 60 years since the first Sea Fair

Past Articles

2024

April 2024: Best in Canada: Regals 1970 triumph

March 2024: A Slam Dunk Show: Basketball visitors from afar

February 2024: Valentine’s Day: A Day for Dancing

January 2024: Skate-worthy Freezes on Cranberry Lake are Rare Now

2023

December 2023: The Reel Times of Roxy Theatre
November 2023: Hello? Operator?
October 2023 Community Masquerade
September 2023 Villa: the first season
August 2023 60 years since the first Sea Fair
April 2023 Post-war a new forestry era
February 2023 Meet top Brooks student Eva Mosely
January 2023 Swanky opera house razzle-dazzled-up this mining island

2022

December 2022 Water: the reason the mill was built here
November 2022 Riveting Women
October 2022 Postcard pretty now, but Goat Island was all about industry
September 2022 Celerity status for top farmers at over 90 years of Fall Fairs
August 2022 Obsidian from Oregon, yew trees and sheep-ranching British officers: Xwe’etay
July 2022: A century on the green
June 2022 Company built rooming houses once solved the local worker housing crisis
May 2022 Fiddlehead Farm fades back into the rainforest
April 2022 Ukrainians settling in Kelly Creek bought land, fought discrimination

March 22 Bridge a blessing both then and now
February 2022 Cran school frozen in time
January Paper City

May 2021 – The original garden centre

2021

December Flooding? It can happen here.
November Bust on Texada: Whiskey bound for the US, a big no no back in the prohibition era
October Well-dressed ghosts enjoy local hotels, theatre
September freedom-loving, off-grid, – hard-working Cranberry
August the great 1955 street name make-over
July ?ayhos, the double-headed sea serpent island
June A childhood with dynamite and pike poles
May The Original Garden Centre
April Horseshoe Valley Hearty Hunting Homesteaders
March Surveying the snow pack
February Old railbed perfect for new romances
January Chilly Fest

2020

December Sweet Shop, a sweet coloured memory
November 99 years of fire trucks, fires and volunteers
October Stormy seas sink passenger ship
September Botanical heritage still thrives
August Magnificent Stillwater Logs in London’s Kew Gardens, Vancouver Court House
July Another Era’s Dominion Day
June Our salty, sporty, scenic lake
May Typhoid in a tent: nursing always took guts
April Overgrown golf green still resplendent
March Ferries used to cost more, take longer and sail less
February Ghost Trails
January Ski in Style

May 2020 – Typhoid in a tent: nursing always took guts

2019

December Christmas Time in Olde Powell River
November Bombers & blackberry jam: the war effort here at home
October Built for the coast: Craftsman and Tudor Revival
September Back, way back, to school
August Rocketing up rockfaces since sputnik
July What they snapped: early photographers
June When “vacation” meant the beach
May Locally Grown
April 100 years ago today…