A second run of the report that cellular service is coming to the Sooke–Port Renfrew corridor, quoting Vickie Weber, senior manager of Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue, on what it will mean for emergency response along the route.
Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.
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“Province to improve cellular service from Sooke to Port Renfrew” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
The cellular-service announcement for the Sooke to Port Renfrew corridor, and the piece of infrastructure news that matters most to this archive. Almost every incident along that stretch — the 2015 Sombrio grotto search, the 2018 cliff fall, the 2021 kayak search — turns on there being no way to call for help. Weber's line that it will have a significant impact on any search-and-rescue emergency along the route is the team's own assessment. This page was recovered from inside the ProQuest bulk export already held in the archive, where it had been listed as referenced but not held.
The clipping
The full page. The article region could not be verified automatically, so the whole page is shown rather than risk a clipping that cuts off the article. the full page is shown; no article region has been identified on it yet.
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ProQuest — the scanned page in the Times Colonist digital archive ↗subscription or library card Recorded exactly as captured, including the Greater Victoria Public Library proxy address — it needs a GVPL card or a ProQuest subscription. Without one, search ProQuest for the document ID in the address. This link opens through the Greater Victoria Public Library and asks for a library card number before showing the page. Cards are free for Greater Victoria residents — sign up on the GVPL site; an online temporary card is enough for the digital databases. Outside Greater Victoria, ask your own library whether it offers the ProQuest Times Colonist archive. http://search.proquest.com.proxy.gvpl.ca/pdntimescolonist/newspapers/april-15-2021page-t12/docview/2541596381/sem-2?accountid=6051
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This is a full newspaper page and carries unrelated stories as well as the article summarised here. Summary read from the page image, because the OCR held for this page recovered too little to work from. Recovered from page 64 of the bulk export. The OCR recovered only the fragments "[mem]ber of Juan de Fuca Search and [Rescue]" and "[search-]and-rescue emergency along", which match the 2021-04-07 front-page report word for word; this page is catalogued as a second run of that story. The full text has not been read from the scan and the summary is deliberately general.
Record id 2021-04-15-times-colonist-pt12-page-scan. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 64).
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15 April 2021A second run of the report that cellular service is coming to the Sooke–Port Renfrew corridor, quoting Vickie
People named
Vickie Webersenior manager, Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue
