Dave Flawse

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Dave tells history with a modern perspective through his Vancouver Island history Blog (located on his website). He’s a freelance writer and editor devoted to thoughtful analysis of your work. A firm believer in literary currency, Dave volunteers for the Comox Valley Writers Society as a beta reader coordinator and facilitates stand-in readers for writers with disabilities for monthly reading nights. Dave is privileged and grateful to be allowed to work and study on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Nuu-chah-nulth Peoples and pay respect to their rich cultural heritage and natural environment.

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CONTRIBUTIONS BY Dave

THE DAY THE PRINCE CAME TO TOWN

CV Collective Fall

Over a century ago, on a Monday in late September, crowds of young and old thronged Vancouver’s sidewalks. Mothers fussed over their children’s hair. Dressed in their Sunday best, onlookers peered over shoulders and jostled for space close to the street for a better view. A motorcar sputtered by, and the throng hooted, clapped, and […]

Words by Dave Flawse

TUNED TO THE COMMUNITY’S FREQUENCY

CV Collective Spring

A lone modular office building with blue vinyl siding rests at the end of a gravel driveway on the edge of Homalco First Nation near Campbell River. From a wide, meshed antenna protruding from its shingled roof, a signal from within radiates south to Mount Washington. From there, a mountainside tower boosts the signal, broadcasting […]

Words by Dave Flawse
Photo by Jenn Dykstra

DROP INTO A DEEP READ

CV Collective Winter

In 2015, on his way to Whistler, Duncan Hague flew over the Rocky Mountains and peered out the plane’s little oval window. Almost one million square kilometres of British Columbia’s mountainous landscape spread out below him. It would become the backdrop for his life’s next chapter and his website, Gnarrative.com. In his British hometown of […]

Words by Dave Flawse
Photo by Duncan Hague

THE FUTURE LOOKS TASTY

CV Collective Summer

At the end of a meandering gravel driveway tucked among lush cedars stands the Deep Bay Marine Field Station, a building that resembles a giant oyster. “It was designed to look like that,” says Carl Butterworth, the Marine Field Station’s manager. As part of Vancouver Island University (VIU), the station conducts applied research for British […]

Words by Dave Flawse
Photos courtesy of The Centre for Seafood Innovation

THE ELK IN OUR BACKYARD

CV Collective Winter

“What was that?” says Scott. His head swivels in the direction of the sound. I raise my hand above my head and blast the Hoochie Mama. The imitation cow-elk call echoes over the cutblock. Scott Bell and I are trying to film Roosevelt elk in the Comox Valley for a short documentary. And we never […]

Words by Dave Flawse
Painting by Christine Boyer

CURRENT DEMAND

CV Collective Spring

The red embers of cigarettes glow through a thick fog. It’s 6am and workers outside the processing plant at Mac’s Oysters chat with one another. Beside them is a heaping mountain of refuse oyster shells—evidence of the scale of demand for oysters from the bountiful waters of Baynes Sound. Step into the buzzing plant, and […]

Words by Dave Flawse
Photo by Mike LeBlanc