Comox Valley Collective Fall
Starting in 1888, a vast labyrinth of extraction tunnels was carved beneath the village of Cumberland, the old Bevan and Puntledge townsites, Comox Lake, and many areas between. When visitors […]
Words by Dawn Copeman
Comox Valley Collective Spring
“Expect mountain bikes, hikers, runners, dogs, children, and elders on these trails.” —excerpt from the Interim Trail Management Strategy for the Cumberland Community Forest Park, May 2021 It’s nine o’clock […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhotos by Sara Kempner
Comox Valley Collective Summer
A few years ago, there was a local kerfuffle because a new sign on the Inland Island Highway proclaimed: “Welcome to Legendary Cumberland.” That’s the difference between old Cumberland and […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhoto by Sara Kempner
Comox Valley Collective Fall
By all accounts, Johnny Bannerman is a very nice young man. He’s a member of the Cumberland Volunteer Fire Department, a devout churchgoer, and a Mason. Naturally athletic, like all […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhoto courtesy of The Cumberland Firehall
Comox Valley Collective Winter
While looking at a 1931 photo of a crew of men seated on a logging raft, long-time Cumberland resident Karl Cameron reminisces about the stories his father, Pete (sixth from […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhoto provided by Cumberland Museum & Archives
Comox Valley Collective Spring
Near the end of July 1918, the blackberries were just starting to ripen, a welcome development for the hungry draft evaders who were hiding in the hills behind Comox Lake. The mission […]
Words by Dawn Copeman
Comox Valley Collective Fall
When I was a little girl in the 1960s, we’d play hand games to amuse ourselves: cat’s cradle, shadow puppets, and a charming little finger riddle that had us chanting to […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhotos by Ron Pogue
Comox Valley Collective Summer
It’s 5:30 a.m., April 15, 1942. The full dark of night is just lifting. Suitcases are packed and weighed and packed again. A last board is hammered into a window […]
Words by Dawn CopemanPhoto by Jenn Dykstra
Comox Valley Collective Fall Where
Walking along the old Wellington Railway trail where alder, hard hack and osier dogwood create a bower of beautiful for wildlife, I smell the coal dust still blowing from the […]
Words by Dawn CopemanFeatured photos by Ed Brooks
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