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…

Well after walking to Bowser and back on Monday and our escapades with the abandoned half Pitbull, today Huuna and I set out on foot for my Nan’s house…