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Samuel Maclure, who was consultant to the Butchart Gardens, reflected the aesthetic of the Renaissance Era and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1939, the Butcharts gave the Gardens to their grandson Ian Ross (1918–1997) on his 21st birthday. Ross was involved in the operation and promotion of the gardens until his death 58 years later.
The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed by the September 2, 1980 merger [ 2 ] of the Victoria Daily Times , established in 1884, and the British Colonist (later the Daily Colonist ), established in 1858 by Amor De Cosmos who was later British Columbia's second Premier .
Private gardens that are open to the public with sometimes limited opening hours are located throughout the city and offer access at low or no cost to visitors, they include the rose garden next to the Empress Hotel, the Government House Gardens on the grounds of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia's house (also known as Government ...
The project took Chuck three years to complete. To be eligible for inclusion in the montage, the settler must have arrived in Victoria before 1843. [1] To obtain the photos, Chuck photographed some of the surviving settlers, borrowed negatives of others and copied them and photographed portraits and paintings of the more famous.
Years Course Glen Meadows Golf Club: 1981 Uplands Golf Club: 1984, 1989, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008–2024 Royal Colwood Golf Club: 1985, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006
See my effort on User:WBardwin/Butchart Gardens WBardwin 17:07, 22 April 2006 (UTC) I, too was concerned, after skimming the article, that it sounded like it was taken from a tourism brochure. I did a quick search on Google for some of the least-encyclopedic phrases and got no hits other than Wikipedia mirror sites.
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.
William Nicholas Vander Zalm (born Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Marie van der Zalm; May 29, 1934) is a Dutch-born Canadian businessman and politician who served as the 28th premier of British Columbia and leader of the British Columbia Social Credit Party from 1986 to 1991.