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I offer three names for the school trustees to consider.

The Greater Victoria School District (SD61) says it will rename George Jay Elementary after the community voiced support for changing the schools name.

George Jay Elementary will receive a new, yet-to-be-determined Lekwungen name after its name came into question due to Jay’s views on Chinese people.

Local student wins first place in the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Kids Salmon Art Contest. Arbutus RV raises $20,000 for Island food banks

Jay Gould, original name Jason Gould, (born May 27, 1836, Roxbury, New York, U.S.—died December 2, 1892, New York, New York), American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous “robber barons” of 19th-century American capitalism. Gould was educated in local schools and first worked as a surveyor in New York state. He then operated a tannery, and by 1859 he had begun speculating in the securities of small railways. H...

George Jay Elementary School students form a circle of paper hands decorated with Coast Salish art, while an Indigenous grandmother and young mother mark the day at a Camosun event

On Sept. 5, 2022, Chinese-Canadian students were removed from public school classes by a school board intent on embracing racial segregation.

Hundreds in Victoria attended events on Monday to commemorate a century since Chinese students staged a walkout and a school boycott against segregation.

It was on Sept. 5, 1922, that the British Columbia capitals more than 200 Chinese-Canadian students refused to attend Victoria School Board mandated Chinese-only schools, launching a one-year student strike that eventually saw the board reverse its segregationist policy in time for the start of class in 1923.

VICTORIA — The first day of school in Victoria one hundred years ago marked the start of a student strike over segregation that helped Chinese-Canadians solidify their place in a country that was not always welcoming, say historians and cultural expe