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S Saanich Peninsula residents and history buffs get a sspecial read, Inside today
Visitors to Heritage Acres see how harvesting is done the old-fashioned way, Page 3 Watch for breaking news at www.peninsulanewsreview.com
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
UVic scientists to help monitor Arctic sea ice Brentwood Bay-based probe similar to new one Edward Hill News staff
information for research projects on the Peninsula from the pages of the Review. “To learn the history of this area, it’s categorical – you need the Review,” he says. He likens the goings-on in early 20thcentury Sidney, for example, to the scenario featured in the period movie about the same era, The Music Man, starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones.
The extent of Arctic sea ice is hitting record lows, making now as good a time as any to add more gear to monitor the ocean environment in the far North. The University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada consortium plans to install a underwater sea floor observatory in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, this month. The technology is similar to the group’s Neptune and Venus underwater observatories off the east and west coasts of Vancouver Island, although it will be much smaller. The Cambridge Bay observatory will hold devices measuring water salinity, temperature, pressure a high-resolution camera, and a critical acoustic device that detects the thickness of ice. An onshore weather station will be linked to the system. This collection of devices will be housed on a frame at the bottom of the bay at Cambridge Bay, linked to the shore via a fibre optic cable armoured for cold temperatures. Ideally, and similar to the Neptune and Venus networks, this mini-observatory will stream live data to the world through the Internet, if the installation team can plug into an Internet connection. “It’s a challenge,” admits Kate Moran, director of Ocean Networks Canada. “There’s not great communications there. We are working with the Nunavut government to hook into their Internet system.” Cambridge Bay is slated as the home of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, announced by the federal government in 2007, but the project hasn’t broken ground.
PLEASE SEE: First Review, page A4
PLEASE SEE: Data collection, page A10
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Sidney Museum and Archives manager Brad Morrison, in costume befitting the 100th anniversary of the Peninsula News Review, scans a current copy of the paper next to a framed 1912 edition of the Sidney and Islands Review. He says the newspaper has played a major role in the community over the decades.
History told on the fly For 100 years, the News Review has been a focal point for the Saanich Peninsula community Don Descoteau News staff
Whether it was to read local gossip,
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or find details of more serious matters, such as who was going to war or coming home, Saanich Peninsula residents have looked to the Peninsula News Review in all its forms for information over the past 100 years. The newspaper, which published its first edition on Dec. 13, 1912 as the Sidney and Islands Review, has been a consistent source of local news and entertainment over the decades, says Sidney Museum and Archives manager Brad Morrison. He has, on many occasions, gleaned
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