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Douglas knows it takes courage and creativity to start a new business. Reaching the critical three-year mark is challenging and requires taking every available opportunity to gain positive attention from peers. That’s why Douglas magazine created 10 to Watch: to support local business growth by honouring entrepreneurship and putting new enterprises in the limelight.
A day before renovations were to start at the Rogers’ Chocolates store on Government Street, Steve Parkhill woke up to read a startling headline in the Globe and Mail: “Rogers’ Chocolates threatens to destroy heritage site.” This was in January 2008 and Parkhill had been president of the company for exactly one year. “We’ve owned the building since it was built,” he says, “and have been stewards of this building and it felt very ironic that it was thought we’d be destroying something.”
Every business needs one. Whether it’s over the main entrance, in the window, on the door, or a standalone structure, it helps customers find your front door and tells passersby about your presence.
Rock music playing in his dusty and battered Ford half-ton, David Chambers drives up the foot of Mount Doug, passing Madrona Farm’s rows of budding, blossoming, and bounteous vegetables.
Main Street is the glory of Canada. If a community has no heart, it has no soul; and its heart should beat faster at the core. For here is the glory of the past, the symbol of stability, the structures that our fathers and their fathers erected, the visual reminder of another time that gives every small town a sense of continuity. — Pierre Berton, foreword to Reviving Main Street (1985)
If you wondered whatever happened to Victoria AM, we’re happy to say that after more than a thousand meetings and 26 years, the city’s pre-eminent tourism promotion group is still going.
Small business owners not only have to plan their post-retirement, but they also need to create the road map to get there.
When it comes to environmentally friendly lighting products, just being green isn’t enough.
In the capital region, recycling diverts almost 20,000 tonnes of material a year — more than a third of the waste generated in the region — that would otherwise go to the CRD’s Hartland landfill in Saanich. In the land of recycling, “garbage” is definitely in the eye of the beholder.
On Canada Day, B.C. joins the nation’s other HST provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. How will it impact Greater Victoria businesses?
The city of Victoria is currently missing 750 parking meters due to vandalism and theft. Most have been targeted in the downtown. It costs approximately $700 to replace each meter. Fortunately, there have been no successful attempts at vandalism or theft of the new pay stations. The city had 1,900 meters in total before introducing the new pay stations. Just over 50% of the new pay stations have been installed.
Cutting Edge At Point Hope
Heavy equipment with big shears cut up two old barges recently at Point Hope Maritime's shipyard on Victoria harbour. The machines, similar to the smaller "jaws of life" used by police and firefighters to cut victims out of car crashes, were from the Steel Pacific scrapyard across the harbour. Point Hope general manager Hank Bekkering said the barges were about 42 metres long and 14 meters wide and 40 years old and Point Hope may be getting more barges to cut up at its yard along Harbour Road.
We are pleased to announce the arrival of ulla restaurant in Victoria’s Design District. ulla is situated at 509 Fisga...
Meade Design Group is proud to introduce Natasha Duff (a.k.a. “Natashita”) as our new graphic designer! We are so pl...
The Island Savings Board of Directors has been working hard under new leadership. Colleen Johel is the newly elected Boa...
