The mountains beckon me throughout the year, but somehow their call in winter is different and holds a special ...
Words & photos by
Joanne McElroy
My name is Doris Wagner and I was born in Innsbruck, Austria. I grew up with parents who loved the music of our ...
Words & photos courtesy of
Doris Wagner
As we go into our 10th year of publishing this magazine, I am stepping out of my comfort zone. It’s often assumed ...
Publisher's Introduction & Photo by
Jenn Dykstra
Tyler and I stood crouched at the start line in Winnipeg this past April. Snow blew sideways, but our nervous ...
When I was 17, I was accepted to participate in the Tall Ship Millennium Challenge out of Southampton, England; a ...
Tradition is a funny thing. It's something we hold on to when the lights go out—guiding, connecting, grounding us. ...
Bob Wild considers himself a late bloomer—photography wasn’t on his radar until he was in his late 40s. As a kid ...
Kimberly Thompson moved to Campbell River in 2020 after many years as a resident of Sooke. Born and raised in ...
My name is Shaelynne and I am in my fourth year of running a wild kelp harvesting operation off the coast of Port ...
Communities in the Pacific Northwest are essentially human settlements in logging clearcuts. Whack down trees, lay ...
A curtain flutters through broken glass as fiery flakes litter the snow-covered ground. Despite the cold, ...
My phone is set to a special sound just for Search and Rescue calls and, while I have learned over the years to be ...
Words by
Tim Fairbank
Photo courtesy of
Daniel Gelson
As the owners of The Lost Faucet Sauna House in Courtenay, we are constantly seeking out more knowledge and ...
In the fall and winter, most people don’t immerse themselves in the Salish Sea, but for geoduck divers, it’s ...
PHOTOS BY GWEN MONNET, SANDI PHYE, & CRAIG SOROCHAN
We respectfully acknowledge that the land we gather on ...
Reflections from an older resident.
I grew up and lived for much of my life in northern ...
Alex Guertin is the newest proprietor of Beaufort Vineyard and Estate Winery. On a warm evening in July, he tours ...
Reflections from a younger resident.
Nests are everywhere when you spend lots of time ...
Nestled among the trees on Cortes Island is Hollyhock, gently nurturing the ancient lands of the Klahoose, ...
My draw to the water started at the age of 17. My stepfather owned a tugboat company just outside Victoria, and he ...
Chuck Burdick is a self-taught photographer working in multiple genres including macro, landscape, and abstract ...
WORDS BY LOIS TAYLOR, TRACY SINCLAIR, & JUANITA MACLEAN
PHOTOS BY CARLA DUFFEY
Established in 1895 by Mr. ...
As a creative generalist working in an array of art practices, Sarah Clark is less interested in becoming an ...
It was late summer when my husband and I first rolled into Cumberland in our old Ford pickup. The year was 1996 ...
There is a mystery that surrounds pregnancy and birth—a real sense of wonder. Cross-culturally, the practice of ...
Many witches, including myself, when asked how and why we became witches, will answer that they didn’t become a ...
We used to live in Cumberland when we were little. It was fun! We would walk to our friends' houses to play. One ...
Ancient DNA (aDNA). The term immediately brings to mind visions of dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, megafauna, ...
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KATHLEEN O’REILLY & FAMILY
My husband, Michael (Mick) Taylor, was an avid traveller, ...
Adam Swift has been bow hunting and fishing on the West Coast since he was a kid growing up in Campbell River. “My ...
Words by
Alison Bell
Opening photo by
Scott Bell
It takes a special kind of person to teach. If you're teaching in the public school system, you're likely signing ...
Twin Islands, tucked against Cortes Island’s southeast shore, has been a haven for a fascinating cast of ...
The year was 1990. On the steep, raw edge of a Mount Washington ski slope, summer wildflowers stood in stark ...
I’m writing these words in the height of summer, when I barely have enough time to juice a cucumber. But it will ...
Nature, specifically the ocean, has long been the undercurrent of photographer and sailor John Kelsey’s life. It’s ...
Words by
Camilla Sampson
Photos courtesy of
John Kelsey
Seated in one of my college classrooms, I received an email from Canada Olympic Park—a confirmation that I would ...
Darren Howlett is sitting in Locals Restaurant, a place he has a long history with. He’s worked in this dining ...
It is a universal truth, I think, that the further you move through adulthood, the more you’re aware that life is ...
Since 1983, Comox Valley Hospice Society (CVHS) has been working to support the physical, psychological, ...
At Cumberland Chinatown’s peak in the years just after the end of World War I, around 1500 residents bustled down ...
Words by
Erica Keen
Photos courtesy of
The Keen Family