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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

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In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health COVID-19 (Disease) Vancouver Island

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Title: COVID-19 business situation assessment | April 29, 2020 | Misty Isles Economic Development Society

URL: http://www.mieds.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID-19-Situation-assessment-Final.pdf

Description: At the time of this report, the economic development manager has spoken with 27 Haida Gwaii businesses to understand the impacts of the pandemic at the local level.

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Title: Night market in downtown Nanaimo officially cancelled | Nanaimo News Now

URL: https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2020/04/29/night-market-in-downtown-nanaimo-officially-cancelled/

Description: The Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday, April 28 it’s taking a year off from the Night Market, which ran the last two years and lined Commercial St. with vendors, food trucks and entertainers.

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Subject:   Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce Smythe, Kim Nanaimo Night Market

Title: [Nanaimo Canadian Tire donates hand sanitizer and masks for use at local doctor's offices] | Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWyjMf1XYAQ7oGe?format=png&name=small

Description: Nanaimo Hospital Fdn on Twitter: "Thank you to @CanadianTire #Nanaimo their donation of six - 5 gal tubs of hand sanitizer and packages of face masks for the Nanaimo Division of Family Practice for use at the doctor's offices around the area! #NanaimoStrong #inthistogether #islandhealth #NRGH Canadian Tire"

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Subject:   Nanaimo Division of Family Practice Canadian Tire

Title: Victoria General Hospital Emergency Department team | Janayh Wright Photography

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWyzd7vU4AAbWfn?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Victoria Hospitals Foundation on Twitter: "Not all heroes wear capes—ours wear scrubs & masks. Check out these stunning photos of the VGH and RJH Emergency Department teams by Janayh Wright Photography! A beautiful reminder of just how grateful we are to have these amazing people looking after us & our #YYJ community 💚"

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Subject:   Victoria General Hospital Janayh Wright Photography Island Health

Title: Royal Jubilee Hospital Emergency Department team | Janayh Wright Photography

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWyzdROVcAAK0ah?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Victoria Hospitals Foundation on Twitter: "Not all heroes wear capes—ours wear scrubs & masks. Check out these stunning photos of the VGH and RJH Emergency Department teams by Janayh Wright Photography! A beautiful reminder of just how grateful we are to have these amazing people looking after us & our #YYJ community 💚"

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Subject:   Royal Jubilee Hospital Janayh Wright Photography Island Health

Title: [New smile buttons] | Victoria Hospice

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWzkGbsX0AEi-F5?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Victoria Hospice on Twitter: "Brianne, an RN at Victoria Hospice, showing off our new smile buttons. These buttons will help our clinical team show their smiles behind their masks, allowing them to better connect with our patients and their loved ones! #hospice #healthcare"

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Subject:   Victoria Hospice

Title: Kindness and care | Gulf Islands School District

URL: https://sd64.bc.ca/kindness-and-care/

Description: Mayne Island Students practised their literacy skills by crafting personalized messages of care and kindness to our island seniors and elders, which are being distributed by our local Mayne Island Assisted Living Society.

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Subject:   Gulf Islands School District Mayne Island School Mayne Island Assisted Living Society

Title: 'We are scared': Haida Gwaii residents protest arrival of BC Ferries amid COVID-19 | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/we-are-scared-haida-gwaii-residents-protest-arrival-of-bc-ferries-amid-covid-19-1.4916972

Description: People living on Haida Gwaii are increasingly concerned that visitors might bring COVID-19 to their remote community.

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Subject:   BC Ferries Old Massett Village Council Haida Nation Willcocks, Greg Royal Canadian Mounted Police Samuels, Cynthia Henry, Bonnie Stanwick, Richard Marshall, Deborah Edgars, Donald "Duffy"

Title: Vancouver Island fish farms donate thousands of meals to food banks | Vancouver Island Economic Alliance

URL: https://viea.ca/vancouver-island-fish-farms-donate-thousands-of-meals-to-food-banks/

Description: Several Vancouver Island-based fish farms are helping donate roughly 200,000 meals to food banks across the province, according to the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA). Island-based Mowi Canada West, Grieg Seafood BC, Cermaq Canada, Creative Salmon and Agassiz-based Golden Eagle Aquaculture are working together to donate roughly 60,000 pounds of salmon to local foodbanks amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   BC Salmon Farmers Association Mowi Canada West Grieg Seafood BC Cermaq Canada Creative Salmon Golden Eagle Aquaculture Food Banks BC St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse Hardy Buoys Smoked Fish Aquatrans Distributors Inc.

Title: COVID-19 staycations turn into record tourist season in Lake Cowichan | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/covid-19-staycations-turn-into-record-tourist-season-in-lake-cowichan-696160/

Description: Longtime Vancouver Island residents who can’t travel for the summer holidays due to the pandemic are rediscovering their own backyards and loving them. It has led to record-breaking tourist season in the tiny lakefront town of Lake Cowichan.

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Subject:   Landry, Adele Metcalfe, Robin Murphy, Rachel The Tube Shack

Title: Nanaimo food planting program goes big in wake of COVID-19 | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/nanaimo-food-planting-program-goes-big-in-wake-of-covid-19-665407/

Description: COVID-19 is highlighting food security issues for many who are experiencing shortages at grocery stores. As Skye Ryan reports Nanaimo Foodshare has a new program working to fill the need, planting thousands of plants to bring food to people all year round.

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Subject:   Nanaimo Foodshare Society Boudreault, Simon Evans, Craig Vancouver Island University Ayton, Alex Grocery Trade

Title: Nanaimo's homeless to get more help because of pandemic | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/nanaimos-homeless-to-get-more-help-because-of-pandemic-665423/

Description: As the province moves to shelter homeless people during the pandemic in Victoria and Vancouver, there hasn’t been a similar move in Nanaimo at this time. But there are efforts underway to help Nanaimo’s homeless during the pandemic.

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Subject:   Brown, Wendy Province of British Columbia Bonner, Don City of Nanaimo BC Housing

Title: Comox’s new bylaw officer impressed by community’s compliance to COVID-19 rules | Comox Valley Record

URL: https://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/community/comoxs-new-bylaw-officer-impressed-with-communitys-compliance-to-covid-19-rules/

Description: Comox’s new bylaw officer has a message for residents of the town: Keep up the good work.

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Subject:   Usher, Ted Town of Comox Comox Golf Club Smith, Bill

Title: Victoria food hub gets funding | Country Life in BC

URL: https://www.countrylifeinbc.com/victoria-food-hub-gets-funding/

Description: Relief is on the way for Vancouver Island farmers caught out by the closure of restaurants and other organizations that usually buy their product.

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Subject:   Victoria Foundation Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable Tychie, Susie Mustard Seed Street Church Food Share Network South Island FarmHub Cowichan Green Community Society Victoria Community Food Hub Society

Title: How to support temporarily closed businesses | Downtown Duncan Business Improvement Area

URL: https://www.downtownduncan.ca/post/how-to-support-temporarily-closed-businesses/

Description: We can still show love for our favourite downtown spas, salons, and tattoo parlors during this time, just as we support other local businesses - with gift cards, ordering delivery, and writing positive reviews.

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Subject:   Downtown Duncan Business Improvement Area Lavallee-Murray, Francine Alley Cat Hair Design The Ginger Room Matisse Day Spa The Loft Hair Salon Eclipse Salon Sei Bella Sugaring & Laser Spa Victory Barber & Brand North AhZenya Studio One Hair Professionals Spon, Ruth Station Street Tattoo Company

Title: Buy Nothing group in Nanaimo seeing neighbours helping neighbours during pandemic | Vancouver Island Free Daily

URL: https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/buy-nothing-group-in-nanaimo-seeing-neighbours-helping-neighbours-during-pandemic/

Description: People are sticking closer to home these days, and a Buy Nothing group is helping some people in Nanaimo do just that.

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Subject:   McLeod, Laura Short, Brian Facebook Social Media

Title: Child care support for essential services workers Comox Valley | YouTube | Comox Valley Schools

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRPw7bqGds

Description: In this episode of our information video series regarding education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Comox Valley School's Director of Instruction Allan Douglas explains the child minding services. The District has answered the call to provide Essential Services Workers (ESW) in the community with child care provisions. Allan is joined by three of the staff at one of our centres, Brooklyn Elementary School, who share more details and experiences since the service began in early April.

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Subject:   Comox Valley Schools Brooklyn Elementary School

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