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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 WHY WITCHCRAFT?](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Witchcraft_Header-400x284.jpg)
Many witches, including myself, when asked how and why we became witches, will answer that they didn’t become a ...
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![Explore by Topic Little River: Clementine & Pepper Wiltsie](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-LittleValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
We used to live in Cumberland when we were little. It was fun! We would walk to our friends' houses to play. One ...
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![Explore by Topic Discovering Ancient Coastal Migration Patterns](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-Hakai_Header-400x284.jpg)
Ancient DNA (aDNA). The term immediately brings to mind visions of dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, megafauna, ...
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![Explore by Topic The Journey is the Gift](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-MickTaylor_Header-400x284.jpg)
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KATHLEEN O’REILLY & FAMILY
My husband, Michael (Mick) Taylor, was an avid traveller, ...
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![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 WHY WITCHCRAFT?](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CVC_Vol35_Witchcraft_Header-400x284.jpg)
Many witches, including myself, when asked how and why we became witches, will answer that ...
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![Explore by Topic Little River: Clementine & Pepper Wiltsie](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-LittleValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
We used to live in Cumberland when we were little. It was fun! We would walk to our friends' ...
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![Explore by Topic Discovering Ancient Coastal Migration Patterns](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-Hakai_Header-400x284.jpg)
Ancient DNA (aDNA). The term immediately brings to mind visions of dinosaurs, ancient ...
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![Explore by Topic The Journey is the Gift](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SC_Vol8-MickTaylor_Header-400x284.jpg)
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KATHLEEN O’REILLY & FAMILY
My husband, Michael (Mick) Taylor, was an ...
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![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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