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Browse our growing collection of articles from current and previous issues of both the Comox Valley Collective and Strathcona Collective magazines by topic.
![Explore by Topic BOW HUNTING: A MULTI-GENERATIONAL LIFETIME OF LESSONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-BowHunting_Header-400x284.jpg)
Adam Swift has been bow hunting and fishing on the West Coast since he was a kid growing up in Campbell River. “My ...
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![Explore by Topic CREATING COMMUNITY BY THE KEG-LOAD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-BeerFest_Header-400x284.jpg)
It takes a special kind of person to teach. If you're teaching in the public school system, you're likely signing ...
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![Explore by Topic UNCOVERING THE MYSTERIES OF TWIN ISLANDS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-TwinIslands_Header-400x284.jpg)
Twin Islands, tucked against Cortes Island’s southeast shore, has been a haven for a fascinating cast of ...
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![Explore by Topic ANODIZED DOWNHILL DAYS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Biking_Header-400x284.jpg)
The year was 1990. On the steep, raw edge of a Mount Washington ski slope, summer wildflowers stood in stark ...
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![Explore by Topic GIVE BEETS A CHANCE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Beets_Header-400x284.jpg)
I’m writing these words in the height of summer, when I barely have enough time to juice a cucumber. But it will ...
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![Explore by Topic THE SEA AS MUSE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_JohnKelsey_Header-400x284.jpg)
Nature, specifically the ocean, has long been the undercurrent of photographer and sailor John Kelsey’s life. It’s ...
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![Explore by Topic A DECADE OF DUELLING RÉSUMÉS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-DuellingResumes-400x284.jpg)
Seated in one of my college classrooms, I received an email from Canada Olympic Park—a confirmation that I would ...
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![Explore by Topic OLD HOUSE ON THE RIVER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Locals_Header-400x284.jpg)
Darren Howlett is sitting in Locals Restaurant, a place he has a long history with. He’s worked in this dining ...
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![Explore by Topic FOSSIL FASCINATION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Museum_Header-400x284.jpg)
It is a universal truth, I think, that the further you move through adulthood, the more you’re aware that life is ...
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![Explore by Topic A WORK OF COMPASSION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Hospice_Header-400x284.jpg)
Since 1983, Comox Valley Hospice Society (CVHS) has been working to support the physical, psychological, ...
![Explore by Topic BOW HUNTING: A MULTI-GENERATIONAL LIFETIME OF LESSONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-BowHunting_Header-400x284.jpg)
Adam Swift has been bow hunting and fishing on the West Coast since he was a kid growing up in ...
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![Explore by Topic CREATING COMMUNITY BY THE KEG-LOAD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-BeerFest_Header-400x284.jpg)
It takes a special kind of person to teach. If you're teaching in the public school system, ...
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![Explore by Topic UNCOVERING THE MYSTERIES OF TWIN ISLANDS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-TwinIslands_Header-400x284.jpg)
Twin Islands, tucked against Cortes Island’s southeast shore, has been a haven for a ...
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![Explore by Topic ANODIZED DOWNHILL DAYS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Biking_Header-400x284.jpg)
The year was 1990. On the steep, raw edge of a Mount Washington ski slope, summer wildflowers ...
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![Explore by Topic GIVE BEETS A CHANCE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Beets_Header-400x284.jpg)
I’m writing these words in the height of summer, when I barely have enough time to juice a ...
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![Explore by Topic THE SEA AS MUSE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_JohnKelsey_Header-400x284.jpg)
Nature, specifically the ocean, has long been the undercurrent of photographer and sailor John ...
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![Explore by Topic A DECADE OF DUELLING RÉSUMÉS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-DuellingResumes-400x284.jpg)
Seated in one of my college classrooms, I received an email from Canada Olympic Park—a ...
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![Explore by Topic OLD HOUSE ON THE RIVER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Locals_Header-400x284.jpg)
Darren Howlett is sitting in Locals Restaurant, a place he has a long history with. He’s ...
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![Explore by Topic FOSSIL FASCINATION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Museum_Header-400x284.jpg)
It is a universal truth, I think, that the further you move through adulthood, the more you’re ...
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![Explore by Topic A WORK OF COMPASSION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Hospice_Header-400x284.jpg)
Since 1983, Comox Valley Hospice Society (CVHS) has been working to support the physical, ...