Monthly Archives: September 2022

“PKOLS (Mount Douglas Park)” Restored as Official Name of Mount Douglas Park

2023-06-15T07:30:41+00:00

PKOLS (Mount Douglas Park) Restored as Official Name of Mount Douglas Park This year, the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council (WLC) brought forth a proposal to change the official name of Mt. Douglas Park to incorporate the original SENĆOŦEN name. It is now known as PKOLS (Mount Douglas Park). In SENĆOŦEN, the name PKOLS means “White head” or “White rock.” The WLC’s name restoration initiative was featured on CTV news.   As part of WLC mandates, the WLC is moving forward on numerous projects that focus on the restoration of W̱SÁNEĆ place names and culture across the territory. In recent years, the WLC [...]

“PKOLS (Mount Douglas Park)” Restored as Official Name of Mount Douglas Park2023-06-15T07:30:41+00:00

The Victoria Airport Authority is hiring an Executive Assistant and Corporate Secretary

2022-09-12T22:07:15+00:00

The Victoria Airport Authority is hiring a Executive Assistant and Corporate Secretary Position Summary In this key role, the EA will provide confidential executive administrative support services to the President and CEO (the CEO) and the Chair of the Board of Directors (the Chair). The EA also acts as an administrative liaison between Board members and the CEO, maintains both the office of the CEO and the Board, records minutes for all CEO and Board meetings, assists the various Board committees with their administrative requirements and performs other related duties that may be assigned. Interested applicants may submit their [...]

The Victoria Airport Authority is hiring an Executive Assistant and Corporate Secretary2022-09-12T22:07:15+00:00

This Time 54 Years Ago – September 1968

2022-09-07T20:47:06+00:00

Noisy Children in Classroom Music to Teachers’ Ears BRENTWOOD, B.C. (CP) A steadily rising noise level was a measure of success for a four-week summer course for Indian children at Tsartlip school, near this community 15 miles north of Victoria.    The sound of voices was music to the ears of the three teachers and six teen-age volunteers working on the program, because the first day the children did not make a sound, one teacher said.    About 50 children participated in the program designed to accustom pre-schoolers, and some school-age children who have been doing poorly, to a classroom, to get [...]

This Time 54 Years Ago – September 19682022-09-07T20:47:06+00:00

This Time 8 Years Ago – September 2014

2022-09-07T20:10:11+00:00

Chief seeks new direction for Tsartlip Don Tom wants his First Nation to move away from ‘managing poverty’ and become more sustainable.    Growing up on the Tsartlip reserve in Brentwood Bay, Don Tom’s first audiences were his big family.  At one Christmas gathering, his father Chris Tom recalled, the youngest Tom boy stood on a chair and gave a particularly dramatic speech.    The years of theater camps, school plays and improv performances that followed might have been unusual for the trades-focused family, but they prepared Tom for his most important public role.    Tom, 31, was elected Chief of the Tsartlip [...]

This Time 8 Years Ago – September 20142022-09-07T20:10:11+00:00
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