“Where to take Christmas trees for chipping”, Times Colonist, p. A5, 7 January 2023 ref-only
Summary
A Capital Regional District list of Christmas-tree chipping sites, noting that community events are typically by donation while there are fees at most public works yards, and asking readers to remove screws, nails, lights and ornaments before recycling.
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.
One of the annual Christmas tree-chipping listings. The Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue entry is one line in a region-wide list; the archive now holds these listings for 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which together are the only continuous record of the team's own fundraising. 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/january-7-2023page-a5/docview/2767333024/sem-2?accountid=6051
These links leave this archive and point at the publisher. They may change or disappear — the scan held here is the archival copy.
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 42 of the bulk export. The Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue entry sits further down the listing column than the region read from the page image; ProQuest returned this page for a Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue search, which is why it is held. The entry itself has not been transcribed.
Record id 2023-01-07-times-colonist-pa5-page-scan. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 42).
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7 January 2023A Capital Regional District list of Christmas-tree chipping sites, noting that community events are typically
