’We have no back road’: Panic in tiny Kootenay towns as ferry strike escalates For some, the only alternative to the cable ferry routes across the narrow lake is an hours-long drive, while others fear being cut off completely 9 Comments ...
About 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada employed at more than 30 B.C. ports have been on strike since Canada Day. ILWU Canada vice president Pat Bolen told the crowd the collective agreement lays out “very clearly” that anything to do with the movement...
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, which is behind the project, says it is needed to keep up with shipping container demand and meet international trade objectives over the next 20 years. Now that the federal government has approved it, opponents are calling on the provincial government...
But back to the bear. Major Matthews did an interview with another early pioneer,John Murray, which he recorded in the fifth volume of his series of booklets called Early Vancouver. “That bear’s mother was shot on the south bank of the Fraser River, across from Westminster, below the ...