A Perilous Trek His mother was suffering from a stroke and he was going for help. The long walk would take a week or more. This Cree family of 5 were trappers. The mother did not want the father, Fred, to go so the son offered to get help. Wearing his backpack filled with a […]

Whale I heard someone say, ‘don’t have a whale about it’. Then another time I heard, ‘why don’t you have a whale about it’? I’m thinking that in both cases ‘the whale’ is a big drama of some kind. The whale is the biggest marine mammal and as demonstrated here, is associated with ‘big’. Canada […]

Ready for the quiz question?  Where were you on Friday November 22 1963?  Those on the gray hair side of things will answer and know exactly where they were.  For my generation it is a ‘where were you’ moment.  It is one of those significant moments like the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon […]

This item on the agenda for the next Town of Oliver Council meeting. Development Cost Charges are paid by a developer through the creation of new parcels via subdivision and during construction of a multi-family, industrial, or commercial building. The purpose of DCC’s are to assist local governments in the capital costs associated with providing, […]