Nanaimo RCMP are asking for the public’s help in locating a man who has had no contact with his immediate family since Jan. 1. Police said that is out of charcter for Dylan McKay, 28, and there is concern for his well-being.
VICTORIA The former homestead of one of Canada’s most notorious cults is up for sale. The historic island property is largely unchanged since the 1920s, when it served as the reputed Ark of Refuge for spiritual leader Brother XII and his Aquarian Foundation. The farm encompasses just over 99 acres of De Courcy Island, its fruit orchards, forests and meadows making up the bulk of the small B.C. Gulf Island located southeast of Nanaimo. It was here that Brother XII, born Edward Arthur Wilson in Birmingham, England, established a fortified colony where he and dozens of followers hoped to survive the coming apocalypse.