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