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Never treat a burn with butter! (Life of a first responder before the provincial ambulance service).

The father met me at the door, his face was white with fear. He was at the same time glad to have help and disappointed I was a police officer and not driving an ambulance. He quickly lead me into the kitchen (he didn’t need to, I could have found …

Christmas 1972

Christmas 1972 was fairly typical for me. At the time I was a Constable assigned to the Community Liaison and Traffic Section of the Saanich Municipal Police. The job of the section involved a combination school liason work and traffic enforcement. I was working for Sgt. Bill Chisholm and did mostly administrative …

The Dawn Patrol

This morning, December 15th, 2014 was a beautiful day in Victoria. At about 8:20 am my wife and I drove to Elk Lake Regional Park via Highway 17. As we joined the highway we saw Mount Baker shining in the morning sun. A beautiful and inspiring sight. That view reminded …

Democracy Matters

When we first wrote the bylaws for The Land Conservancy of British Columbia, in 1996, I made sure that we followed the model of the National Trust in the UK, an organization I had admired for about thirty years. In particular, I wanted to ensure that TLC would have …

Why Abkhazi Garden matters to me

Why Abkhazi Garden matters to me. – by Bill Turner I first saw Abkhazi Garden in 1999 shortly after it had been sold to a developer. The development proposal, which had approvals from the City of Victoria, was to build 12 townhouses on the site of this unique and …

Why I care about Ross Bay Villa

Why I care about Ross Bay Villa – by Bill Turner I first learned of Ross Bay Villa in early 1999 when members of Victoria’s heritage community raised the alarm. This amazing house – one of only 10 surviving 1860s houses in the region – had been the subject …

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