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Vancouver Sun Turns 100

Happy birthday to The Vancouver Sun which is celebrating its centennial this weekend.

First published on February 12, 1912, The Sun was founded by John McConnell and Richard Ford, owners of a local magazine called the BC Saturday Sunset. In those days it was usual for political parties to bankroll newspapers as a way of getting their message out to the public. Objectivity was not valued as highly as it is today. For years the federal Liberal Party had helped to finance The World, owned by the... Read this post

Long Ago Person Found

In 1999 hunters found human remains frozen in a glacier near the Yukon-BC border. The body, which turned out to be a young man, was christened Kwaday Dan Sinchi ("Long Ago Person Found" in the Tutchone language).

A team of scientists set about examining the remains and their findings have been collected in a well-illustrated document which has been posted at the website of the Royal BC Museum here.

Burgess Shale Website

Another website alert.

The Burgess Shale is a quarry located in Yoho National Park high above the community of Field. It is one of the most important fossil finds anywhere in the world, a status attested to in 1980 when UNESCO declared it a world heritage site.

Discovered in 1909, the shale contains fossils of fantastic sea creatures dating back half a billion years when these mountaintops were actually the floor of an ancient sea. To help wrap your head around this strange phenomenon, the Royal... Read this post

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