Showing posts with label Burnside Tillicum Gorge Neighbourhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burnside Tillicum Gorge Neighbourhood. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

The Gorge Waterway - an environmental success story

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I am going to start doing some Vlogging as well as posting on this blog.   Here is my first short piece
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

My Street = Orillia Street

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I live on Orillia Street, a completely unremarkable street in the Tillicum Gorge neighbourhood of Saanich.   I have lived in the neighbourho...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Heritage in the Gorge Tillicum neighbourhood and the Saanich Heritage Foundation

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I need your help documenting and protecting the heritage of the Gorge-Tillicum neighbourhood. I am a board member of the Saanich Heritage ...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

May 7th 2015 - Swimming in the Gorge

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I was in the water today with the boys at Curtis Point and it was 21 degrees
Friday, November 29, 2013

Cuthbert Holmes Park - workparty Saturday, November 30, 2013

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This came into my email box, I will not make it because I am at the Winteree at Mount Doug Park: Hi everyone, It's looking great in...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Colquitz Creek fish fence November 21st 2013

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I wrote a bit about the record run on the Colquitz , this morning I went down to check out the fish fence.   Today there was only one spawne...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Good News for the Day - Record Coho run on the Colquitz

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Colquitz Fish Fence - all photos courtesy of the GCTA One of the Colquitz Coho The run is not yet done and much larger numbers of fi...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Gorge Swimming and the 2013 Gorge Swim Fest

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There was a decent sized group down at the Banfield Park all jumping into the Gorge today to swim as a promo for the 2013 Swim Fest on Augus...
Friday, July 05, 2013

Gorge Canada Day Picnic

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The 15th Annual Gorge Canada Picnic was on July 1st in the Gorge Waterway Park.   We finally went last year for the first time.   What I l...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Swimming in the Gorge on May 7th 2013?!?!

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The Gorge warms up very quickly because the tides move a lot of water in and out twice a day. It means that even two to three days of hot w...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Cuthbert Holmes Work Party Saturday January 19th at 10 am

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Since I talked about this recently and I am on Julian Anderson's mailing list for the park, I thought I would post the details of the w...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

This Sunday 4th Annual Gorge-Tillicum Urban Farmers Seedy Sunday

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Seed sharing is a way to get a few interesting varieties of seeds for plants that come from people locally.   Getting your seeds locally sh...
Monday, January 07, 2013

Cuthbert Holmes Park, a potential jewel being under used

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Map Cuthbert Holmes Park and related parks around it I should have written this ages ago, I had meant to submit some of this as my thoug...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Some maps and air photos of our house from 1977 to 20111977

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From various online sources I have found some recent maps and air photos of our house at the corner of Maddock Avenue East and Harriet Roa...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Some weather data for my neighbourhood

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I now have seven and a half years of weather data for my neighbourhood from the UVic Weather Network . This is still not enough for clear lo...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Fish Counts in Colquitz River for 2012

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I got this from the Gorge Tillicum Community Association  about the 2012 salmon run on the Colquitz river Total Fish counts in for the y...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Lights on the Gorge - Sunday December 9th 3 pm to 6 pm

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Lights on the Gorge: Multicultural Celebration of Midwinter - This is an event hosted by the Gorge-Tillicum Community Association , the Uni...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Why did I choose to live in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood?

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3100 block of Balfour Street in Victoria In 2004 for a host of reasons Catherine and I moved to Victoria.   The decision of Victoria was...
Wednesday, September 05, 2012

More Rental Units on Gorge Road - Trying to Figure Out How it Will Change the Neighbourhood

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The section of Gorge Road from about Bridge to Harriet has a whole set of motels along it.  This came about because before the construction ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Gorge Swim Fest

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Curtis Point on Sunday On Sunday there was the first Gorge Swim Fest organized by the four community associations bordering on the ...
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