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Tight squeeze Two tug boats carefully navigate a mammoth Seaspan barge past Rock Bay in the Upper Harbour, as seen from the Bay Street bridge. Unionized tug boat crews held a strike vote Tuesday that threatens to disrupt container imports, as well as exports of oil, sulphur, potash, lumber and coal across B.C. ports.
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Nearly two dozen relatives of Margaret Jenkins will descend upon her namesake school this week to celebrate its 100th anniversary. “We have 23 relatives of
Margaret Jenkins visiting from six different U.S. states, and some of them have never met one another,” said Hazel Currie, volunteer with the centennial celebrations committee at École Margaret Jenkins school. Born in Wales in 1843, Jen-
kins spent her early years in Chile before moving to Victoria with her second husband in 1882. Jenkins became a tireless advocate of better schooling during her 17 years as a trustee, and became the first woman to have a building named after
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her in Victoria with the opening of École Margaret Jenkins elementary in 1914. “If I had my life to live over again,” she said in a 1921 interview, “I would not change my estimate of the value of the child and the child’s welfare. … The child
is the citizen of the future and no asset is so valuable to Canadian life as the potential adult which is to be the nation of the future.” See more on the school’s centennial celebrations on page A3. dpalmer@vicnews.com
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