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Toporowski served five terms as a councillor of the Cowichan Tribes, [6] [7] [8] having first been elected in 2013. [5] [2] While serving as a councillor of the Cowichan Tribes, Toporowski was appointed to various committees: the Cowichan Nation Alliance, Cowichan Tribes Treaty, Cowichan Watershed Board, Cowichan Watershed Society, the Duncan Chamber of Commerce, Fishing Committee, Health ...
Born in Koksilah, British Columbia, he was the fifth of seven children born to Mary Agnes Bickel Kelly and James Watson Kelly.One obituary states "Upon graduation from Gulfcoast Military Academy in Gulfport, Miss. in 1922, Kelly, then 16, began attending Vanderbilt University and then the University of Pittsburgh.".
In 1971, a competing Cowichan Valley newspaper, the Pictorial (1966-2008) bought the Cowichan Leader, but the two newspapers remained separate and distinct. [6] The Leader, a broadsheet sized publication, was known as a traditional, more conservative paper, while the Pictorial was a weekend tabloid with advertisements, jokes, and cartoons. [7]
The senior Doman, had worked in the industry, logging the big timber of the Cowichan Valley and at one point (1905) leased a mill to cut timber for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1953, Herb along with his younger brothers, Ted Doman and Gordon Doman , founded Doman Lumber Company , and 1955 incorporated as Doman's Lumber & Transport Ltd. .
Herb Strongeagle was born in 1934 [6] or 1935 [1] [3] and is from the Pasqua Reserve, [7] Pasqua First Nation, Cowichan Bay, B.C. [8] though Zeman, et al., report him as being from Piapot [9] as does the Cowichan News Leader, commenting he came "from a humble start in Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask." [1]
Pages in category "People from the Cowichan Valley Regional District" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, to Stan and Jeannine Kulka, (the youngest of four children) Glenn Kulka began playing hockey in the minor leagues with the British Columbia Hockey League with the Cowichan Valley Capitals in 1980 and the Medicine Hat Tigers, Spokane Flyers and the Nanaimo Islanders in the Western Hockey League from 1981 to 1983. [2]
The Cowichan Valley is a region around the Cowichan River, Cowichan Bay and Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. There is some debate as to the origin of the name Cowichan, which many [ who? ] believe to be an anglicized form of the First Nations tribal name Quw'utsun .