Island Rewind

We dig through the CHEK archives to take a look back at stories from Vancouver Island’s past.

CHEK News at 6 anchor Paul Haysom and the CHEK News Weekends anchor Scott Fee are cracking open the news vault for a blast from the past in the weekly series Island Rewind.

Watch it live every Monday during the 6 p.m. news and Saturday during the 5 p.m. news, or catch the stories below after they’ve aired.

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3 days Island Rewind: UVic Quidditch team plays in 2011 world cup In 2011, UVic's Quidditch team made it to the world cup, and Skye Ryan touched base with the team in the lead up to the event.

6 days Island Rewind: Filming Man of Steel Back in 2011, the filming of a large Hollywood blockbuster turned heads in Nanaimo.

1 week Island Rewind: Brandon, Manitoba in centre of 1979 eclipse path In February 1979, people gathered in Brandon, Manitoba for a glimpse of the solar eclipse.

2 weeks Island Rewind: Iona Campagnolo Iona Campagnolo was B.C.’s first female Lieutenant-Governor, among many other roles, including a successful broadcaster. In tonight’s Island Rewind, we revisit a sit down interview where she shares her legacy in her own words.

2 weeks Island Rewind: Walking naked across the legislature lawn and a spaghetti harvest: April Fools! Throwbacks to two April Fools pranks. One happened locally in 1997, when the Ocean touted a man was going to walk naked across the Legislature lawn, and the other a BBC broadcast in 1957, looking at the Switzerland spaghetti harvest.

3 weeks Island Rewind: Steve Nash makes NBA debut in 1996 In 1996, Steve Nash made his NBA debut in Vancouver against the Grizzlies, who famously did not draft him. Instead, Nash played for the Phoenix Suns.

4 weeks 2004: Luna the orca killed Nearly 20 years ago this month, Luna the orca was killed in Nootka Sound after running into a boat propeller. It came after the orca left his pod and remained around Gold River for years, interacting with people and boats. The legacy of the mammal and the people who cared for him is still controversial to this day.

1 month Island Rewind: VIU student turns shoreline trash into works of art In 2011, CHEK News heard from a Vancouver Island University student who was turning garbage she found on the beach into works of art.

1 month Island Rewind: Dockside Green Back in 2007, a new development was on the horizon in Greater Victoria, and it was the first of its kind in North America.

1 month Island Rewind: Trumpeter greets cruise ship visitors In 2009, Dean Stoltz checked in with a man who once on a whim played his trumpet for cruise ship passengers, and it has now become a tradition of his.

1 month Island Rewind: Horse in house We’re going back to 2009 where an Island business owner runs a bed and breakfast, and deals with a large, four-legged house guest.

2 months Island Rewind: Gilligan's Island boat goes up for sale in 2006 When the S. S. Minnow went up for sale in 2006, Jennifer Crosby went to check it out and navigated the nostalgia.