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Cowichan Estuary Interpretive Nature Centre

  • 2012 Mar 13
  • Estuary Nature Centre Management Committee
  • Staff Reporter

Cowichan Bay Estuary Centre opening just a few months away More »

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Cowichan Bay Estuary Centre opening just a few months away

  • 2012 Jan 12
  • Cowichan News Leader Pictorial
  • Peter W. Rusland

The community’s done its part to help build Cowichan Bay’s Estuary Nature Centre. Now it’s provincial and federal taxpayers’ turn to fund Hecate Park’s eco-observation and education centre expected to open by March 31, explained Kai Reitzel of the Cowichan Land Trust. More »

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2011 Prairie Wood Design Award Winners Announced!

  • 2011 Nov 26
  • Alberta Wood WORKS!
  • Barbara Murray

More than 150 design and building professionals, including architects, engineers, project teams and industry sponsors along with Minister of Infrastructure Jeff Johnson gathered this evening to honour the nominees and winners of the 2011 Alberta Wood WORKS! Prairie Wood Design Awards. More »

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2011 Heritage Conservation Award of Honour

  • 2011 Oct 01
  • Heritage BC
  • Staff Reporter

At the Annual Conference in Burnaby on September 30, 2011, Heritage BC presented awards to individuals, organizations, government and businesses for excellence in heritage conservation. Macdonald & Lawrence was recognized and awarded for their work on three heritage projects, in three categories. More »

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2011 Heritage Conservation Outstanding Achievement Award

  • 2011 Oct 01
  • Heritage BC
  • Staff Reporter

At the Annual Conference in Burnaby on September 30, 2011, Heritage BC presented awards to individuals, organizations, government and businesses for excellence in heritage conservation. Macdonald & Lawrence was recognized and awarded for their work on three heritage projects, in three categories. More »

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2011 Heritage BC Awards Certificate of Recognition

  • 2011 Oct 01
  • Heritage BC
  • Staff Reporter

At the Annual Conference in Burnaby on September 30, 2011, Heritage BC presented awards to individuals, organizations, government and businesses for excellence in heritage conservation. Macdonald & Lawrence was recognized and awarded for their work on three heritage projects, in three categories. More »

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Canada's Governor General Visits the Cowichan Valley

  • 2011 Sep 27
  • CTV
  • Chandler Grieve

COWICHAN VALLEY - Day two of the Governor General's visit to the island took him deep inside the Cowichan Valley. More »

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Behind the successful fight for the Kinsol

  • 2011 Aug 31
  • Times Colonist
  • T.W. Paterson

Thought to be the longest and highest surviving structure of its kind in North America, the highest in the British Commonwealth - now, possibly, in the world - the Kinsol Trestle over the Koksilah River was an ambitious undertaking even for experienced railway construction men. Reaching 187 metres (614 feet) long, 38 metres (147 feet) high - as tall as a 12-storey building - and gently arcing six degrees from south to north, it was built entirely by hand of timber on concrete footings. The result of these mostly anonymous pioneers' handiwork is an Erector kit of such mammoth proportions that modern-day visitors are invariably awed. More »

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Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre Update

  • 2011 Aug 15
  • Pacific Yachting
  • Cherie Thiessen

Last August, PY reported on our renovating project for Cowichan Bay's popular Maritime Museum. They returned this year to check in. More »

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Historic Kinsol Trestle Project

  • 2011 Aug 03
  • BC Government
  • Staff Reporter

The Kinsol Rehabilitation Project will give new life to the historic Kinsol Trestle, Canada’s tallest wooden rail trestle, completing a key part of the Trans Canada Trail on Southern Vancouver Island. More »

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