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Highland Games

Military music spectacle to close first day of Highland Games 

Victoria Military Music Festival Society — The 160th edition of the Victoria Highland Games at Topaz Park will host a Military Music Spectacle in partnership with the Victoria Military Music Festival Society (VMMFS) on May 20. This is the second year in a row that VMMFS has brought […]

Lieutenant (Navy) Harjot Deol, Petty Officer First Class Kanwar Nijjer, and Sub-Lieutenant Mehak Dhinsa attend Khalsa Day celebrations at Victoria's Gurdwara Singh Sabha temple on Apr. 30. Photo: HMCS Malahat.

CAF members join Victoria Sikh community in Vaisakhi celebration

Peter Mallett, Staff Writer — The largest Vaisakhi festival on Vancouver Island saw military members join Victoria’s Sikh community to celebrate the birth of the Sikh Nation. Petty Officer First Class (PO1) Kanwar Nijjer arranged for a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) booth to be at the Gurdwara Singh Sabha temple on Apr. 30. “Our presence here allows […]

RCN Fleet Weekend

Royal Canadian Navy Fleet Weekend

Lt(N) Pamela Hogan, MARPAC PAO — ‘Victoria Traffic, Canadian Warship 341 estimating First Narrows one-three-zero-zero, over.’ HMCS Ottawa entered Vancouver Harbour on May 4, followed by HMCS Nanaimo and Orca-class training vessels Raven 56, Orca 55, and Moose 62, for Canadian Fleet Pacific’s (CANFLTPAC) second annual Fleet Weekend at the Burrard Drydock […]