![Explore by Region DISCOVER THE HEALING POWER OF LABYRINTHS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CVC_Vol38_Labyrinths_Header-400x284.webp)
A labyrinth has one single, visible path leading to the centre and out again. With no choices or decisions to ...
![Explore by Region EMBRACING FRIVOLITY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CVC_Vol38_Intro_EmbracingFrivolity-400x284.webp)
Your inner kid wants you to come out and play
I just brought a ten-week-old kitten home from the SPCA, so ...
![Explore by Region FEATURED POET: AMBITION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_Poetry-400x284.webp)
It’s been a long sleep,
and I forget how to belong.
There were darker winters than this,
resting far from the ...
![Explore by Region FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: AMY SHAW](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_Photographer_Header-400x284.webp)
As a photographer specializing in weddings and portraits of family and parenthood, Amy Shaw believes “photography ...
![Explore by Region FEATURED ARTIST: MICHAEL PRATT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_Artist_Header-400x284.webp)
A Vancouver Islander by birth, Michael Pratt says, “As well as being my home, the Island is my artistic muse, ...
![Explore by Region ELDER RIVER: ADVOCATING FOR CARE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SC_Vol9_ElderValley_Header-400x284.webp)
Sight unseen, I moved to Campbell River from Vancouver in August 1964 with my late husband, Ed, who had obtained ...
![Explore by Region SEASONAL GOODS: SPRING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_ROAM_Goods-1-400x284.webp)
Update your life this spring with some of the ROAM team’s top picks for the season. Some of them smell good, one ...
![Explore by Region AN UPDATE ON STORIES FROM VOLUME 2](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_FreshPerspective_Header-400x284.webp)
Throughout our 10th anniversary year, we’re looking back at some of the people, places, and endeavours that we ...
Words by
Zoë Cooper
Illustrations by
Alex Maertz
![Explore by Region LITTLE RIVER: RAVEN BONK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SC_Vol9_LittleValley_Header-400x284.webp)
Homeschooling and one-of-a-kind community celebrations
Tahsis is a remote village at the end of the Tahsis ...
![Explore by Region BEYOND THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE SAYWARD REGION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SC_Vol9_Sayward_Header2-400x284.jpg)
The Sayward region displays unparalleled beauty in every direction you look. Elk graze in its fields, eagles soar ...
![Explore by Region ELDER VALLEY: BOUQUETS OF HAPPINESS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_ElderValley_Header-400x284.webp)
Creating a bit of paradise on a small city lot in Comox
When I retired from a fulfilling nursing career in ...
![Explore by Region FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: COLIN PENDZIWOL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SC_Vol9_FeaturedPhotographer_Header-400x284.webp)
Colin has always been drawn to photography’s ability to preserve and share life’s experiences. He enjoyed taking ...
![Explore by Region FEATURED ARTIST: LEE GASS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SC_Vol9_FeaturedArtist_Header-400x284.webp)
Lee Gass has been sculpting all his life. He carves stone and wood sculptures for indoor and outdoor display and ...
![Explore by Region CAMPBELL RIVER FOOD BANK’S DREAM FOR THE FUTURE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SC_Vol9_Food-Bank_Header-400x284.webp)
It's been a tough winter for our island community. We all know a neighbour who has suffered an unexpected job ...
![Explore by Region LITTLE VALLEY: ODUS ATKINSON](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_LittleValley_Header-400x284.webp)
A flowing rhythm: thoughts on a creative life
My name is Odus. I am 12 years old, and I have lived on Hornby ...
![Explore by Region THE JOYS OF KEEPING BIRDS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Birds_Header-400x284.webp)
A FLOCK OF OUR OWN
Two years ago, we moved from Cumberland to Black Creek and brought our small flock of hens ...
![Explore by Region HOMALCO NATION’S NEW TRANSPORTATION COMPANY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SC_Vol9_QayaWay_Header-400x284.webp)
Today, they’re taking staff up to April Point Resort. Tomorrow, they’re headed up the Toba Inlet. “We go where ...
![Explore by Region MAKING CUMBERLAND TRAILS MORE INCLUSIVE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Gene_Header-400x284.webp)
To the casual observer, Gene Wey is a glass-full-to-the-brim kind of person. When a doctor told him he would never ...
![Explore by Region MEET THE ARTISTS AT THE QUADRA ISLAND STUDIO TOUR](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_HeArt_Header-400x284.webp)
It started with four thousand bricks—hauled by two high school sweethearts, newly married, from Calgary to Quadra ...
![Explore by Region CREATING A SANCTUARY FOR CORKY THE ORCA](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_DoubleBaySanctuary_Header-400x284.jpg)
My work for cetaceans began in the 1990s. Using my love of ocean sailing and racing as a platform, I raised ...
Words & photos by
Michael Reppy
![Explore by Region TRANSIENT ORCAS ARE THRIVING IN THE SALISH SEA](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_Orcas_Header-400x284.webp)
Through conservation efforts and education, humans have finally made space for our supernatural neighbours, the ...
![Explore by Region THE ART AND CRAFT OF WOODTURNING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Wood_Header-400x284.webp)
Woodturning, one of the most ancient of crafts, is a way of producing wood creations using razor-sharp chisels and ...
Words & photos by
Jim Whyte
![Explore by Region HOW COMMON BROOM BECAME ALL TOO COMMON ON VANCOUVER ISLAND](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CVC_Vol37_Broom_Header-400x284.webp)
Colonialism has taken many forms and has had many legacies. Beginning in the 1840s, settlers on what is now called ...
![Explore by Region A WHEELCHAIR-ACCESSIBLE HOME](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Accessibility_Header-400x284.webp)
Universal access
Julie and Ramesh Lad moved into their new home in February 2022. The home, which was custom ...
![Explore by Region THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Flowers_Header-400x284.webp)
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not ...
![Explore by Region WESTCOAST TRIPLE PLANK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_SoakedStoked_Header-400x284.webp)
SOAKED AND STOKED
Founded in 2017 by friends Marie-France Roy and Alicia Gilmour, the WestCoast Triple ...
Words & photos by
Sara Kempner
![Explore by Region NATURAL COLLECTION STANDS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_GuitarStands_Header-400x284.webp)
FROM YOUTHFUL OBSESSION TO THRIVING BUSINESS
I first became obsessed with woodworking in junior high. I ...
![Explore by Region WEST COAST EXPEDITIONS ON TLE:HOH](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_WCE_Header-400x284.webp)
Beyond Kayaking
I first saw a presentation about West Coast Expeditions (WCE)’s guided sea kayak adventures ...
![Explore by Region NAWALAKW HEALING CENTER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Kwakwala_Gallery-400x284.webp)
The beautiful sound of kwak'wala flows from the mouths of fluent speakers, filling the air and my heart. Among our ...
![Explore by Region THE FLAVOURFUL CHICORY FAMILY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Chicory_Header-400x284.webp)
If your knowledge of chicory is limited, allow me to introduce you to this family of vegetables full of complex, ...
![Explore by Region THE COCO RUN: A CANCER FUNDRAISER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Coco_Header-400x284.webp)
My name is Ryan Rasmussen and I help people with cancer looking for a holistic approach to treatment. I support ...
![Explore by Region CAREMONGERING IN CAMPBELL RIVER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Caremongering_Header-400x284.webp)
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
— ...
![Explore by Region EVERYONE CAN (AND SHOULD) MEDITATE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Meditation_Header3-400x284.webp)
Cultivating stillness
We experience so much in our lives. Sometimes life’s momentum is so fast that we miss ...
![Explore by Region AT HOME WITH RODERICK HAIG-BROWN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Haig-Brown-400x284.webp)
“A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers ...
![Explore by Region GETTING TO KNOW THE AWAKENEERS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Awakeneers-400x284.webp)
The story of the Awakeneers starts more than 30 years ago on an off-grid homestead in the mountains of BC where ...
Words by
Isa McKenty
Photo courtesy of
The Awakeneers
![Explore by Region CVOX: COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY RADIO](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Radio_Header-400x284.webp)
Our devices can bring music and news from almost everywhere in the world. But most of the content is ...
![Explore by Region REFLECTIONS OF A YARD CAR](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Cars_Header-400x284.webp)
When I first rolled off the assembly line decades ago, I couldn’t wait to hit the road for a life of adventure. ...
Words & photos by
RJ Herron
![Explore by Region HANDCRAFTING LINEN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Linen_Header-400x284.webp)
LIVING FROM LINEN
I’m Karla, and I create linen. That’s right, I start with a handful of unassuming flax ...
![Explore by Region HA̱’ME’ RESTAURANT REOPENS AT KWA’LILAS HOTEL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Hame-400x284.webp)
BEYOND THE PLATE AT HA’ME‘’S (RE)OPENING
The eagerly anticipated (re)opening of Ha̱’me‘ Restaurant, in its ...
Words by
Camilla Sampson
Photos courtesy of
Ha̱'me'
![Explore by Region THE HERRING GOLD RUSH OF 1979](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Herring_Header-400x284.webp)
In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from their bibs and clung ...