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A new wine bar is sending a warm island breeze through North Melbourne.

A COLLECTION from the estate of award-winning jazz singer and actress Annie Ross have been bequeathed to an archive in Scotland. The performance and personal items of the Hollywood star – who died four days before her 90th birthday last year – will be stored in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Archives and Collections. Among the collection is a 2010-dated letter from then US president Barack Obama, congratulating Ross on receiving the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master’s Award. Ross was born in London to Scottish vaudevillians Jack Short and Mary Dalziel and got ...

A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1976 The 1000 block of Robson Street in February, 1976. Item # CVA 780-406. In 1976, ICBC rates skyrocketed, the Museum of Anthropology got a new home and an earthquake rocked the area. By Chuck Davis, Laing Bridge On May 15, 1976 the Arthur Laing Bridge officially opened, named after a native son of Richmond who became a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, then later a Senator. The $23 million four-lane bridge, which crosses the north arm of the Fraser to Sea Island, vastly speeded up access to the Vancouver International Airport. It reduced the distance...