Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Kevin Aschhoff July 28, 2021 - 6:20 PM Deep beneath the waves of the Interior’s many lakes are secrets only divers can explore. Kevin Aschhoff, owner of Oceantech Scuba has a few favourite dive sites but diving has led to more than that. The Interior area diver once helped solve a missing person s case. In 2010, Aschhoff and other drivers found a car had gone off the road in the 1970s and the young woman who was driving it, from Keremeos, had been presumed missing the whole time. Her skeleton was still in the vehicle and police were able to use the evidence to connect it to the missing case, he said.
The Globe and Mail Rod Mickleburgh Published April 15, 2021
Steve Ko/COURTESY OF CHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM
Hundreds of Chinese Canadians volunteered to fight in the Second World War for a country that denied them the vote and further marginalized them with an ingrained system of racial discrimination. Many from British Columbia were trained as commandos to operate behind Japanese lines in the Pacific. Theirs was a story of bravery and courage. Yet few in Canada – not even in the Chinese Canadian community – knew much about it. As the vets grew older, Howe Lee decided that had to change.
In the mid-1990s, along with a few others, the long-time Burnaby, B.C., teacher and military reservist set his sights on a way to preserve and celebrate their exploits, which also played a major role in finally securing the vote for Chinese Canadians in 1947. With Mr. Lee as its driving force, the group raised funds, whipped up support beyond the Chinese Canadian community, and push
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