I grew up on Vancouver Island, the fourth of five generations of my family to have done so. I have had the great fortune of hearing stories from the previous generations of how the landscape and seasons have changed. Family stories of being able to drive a car across a frozen Elk Lake in Victoria […]
Words by Tim EnnisPhotos by Brett Kroeker
[On Judgement Day] …men will cast away their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship—to the moles and bats. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD… — Isaiah 2:20 Come on, Robin, to the Bat Cave! There’s not a […]
Words by Tim EnnisPhotos by Neil Borecky
[On Judgement Day] …men will cast away their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship—to the moles and bats. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD… — Isaiah 2:20 Come on, Robin, to the Bat Cave! There’s not a […]
Words by Tim EnnisPhotos by Neil Borecky
It is amazing to stand on the shores of Comox Lake and consider the vast amount of water it contains. With a surface area of 21 square kilometres and a mean depth of 61m, the lake holds millions upon millions of cubic metres of crystal-clear fresh water. With an average precipitation of 1,100mm per year […]
Words by Tim EnnisPhotos by Jenn Dykstra
Drive northwest past the ferry line-ups, strip malls, and highways choked with RVs. Carry on until you’re out of cell service. Keep going. Turn left at the old Hudson’s Bay post at Fort Rupert and drive until the pavement ends. This is where adventure begins. This is where most people are left behind in a […]
Words & Photos by Tim Ennis
“I just want to wake up one day, open the company’s books, and not see the Field Sawmill property there,” John Horning tells me. Horning is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Interfor, an international logging company with nearly 20 sawmills and extensive forest tenures spanning between northwestern British Columbia and South […]
Words by Tim EnnisFeatured photo by Robert Lundquist
As a very young child, I enjoyed my mum reading to me the story of Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling. It is a magical message-in-a-bottle story of a young First Nations boy who carved a wooden effigy of a person in a canoe, and set it in Lake Nipigon in hopes that it would find […]
Words & photos by Tim Ennis
“Man must make himself small and humble to live in [nature] rather than a ruthless giant to conquer it” – Roderick Haig-Brown On August 29th 2016, the International Geological Congress declared that the earth had entered a new geological era sometime around 1950. They called it the “Anthropocene” or era of humans. We have created […]
Words & photos by Tim Ennis
This season, rivers and streams swell and grow like open hearts and minds, reminding us what we’ve left behind and leading us to places we can’t imagine. Growth in spring means that flowers open and the colour of our landscape constantly changes. The theme of growth was chosen for this issue not only as an […]
Vol. 10 Intro by Julie SabeyPhoto by Tim Ennis