A couple times now I’ve been tasked with creating a family tree for family reunions. Finally I decided to invest in some software and merge all the information I had or could find easily into one big family tree…

My family has lived on Vancouver Island a long time, before Canada, before British Columbia, Vancouver Island was a colony in the British Empire. My family came from Ireland and Scotland mostly, some came via the Australian penal colony even. My ancestors settled in the Cowichan Valley and Union Bay, many of them became loggers but there were several farms carved out of the countryside. My grandmother’s both grew up on original homesteads…

A few days ago we drove to Victoria for the McKay family reunion or a close approximation. This was my dad’s dad’s side of the family. Besides my mom and my sister I only had met one person who was at the house prior to November 5th, 2006…

The cover story in this weekend’s Vancouver Sun was a list of the 100 most influential Chinese living in the lower mainland…

In both today’s Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail are articles dealing with the possibility that Sleeman will sell itself to a larger brewer…