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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 LITTLE VALLEY: FARRAH RUSSELL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_19-Granada-400x284.jpg)
When your family moves to Spain for a year, there’s a lot to learn
My name is Farrah. I am eight years old ...
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![Explore by Topic BALANCING NATURE AND NEW ENDEAVOURS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Opening-Image-Tyrah-Hofer-Strathcona-Collective-400x284.jpg)
Articles in this issue (my first as editor) feel like a love letter to our region. A testament to the vast melting ...
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![Explore by Topic Respect, Protect, Flourish](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Featured-Image-Strathcona-Collective-Respect-Protect-Flourish-400x284.png)
Does the phrase “you are a product of your environment” sound familiar? Many cultures have long recognized the ...
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![Explore by Topic Migration of the Grizzlies](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Moira-Le-Patourel-Strathcona-Collective-400x284.jpg)
Vancouver Island has remote valleys, salmon streams, and mountainsides that, in summer, are ripe with plump ...
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![Explore by Topic Saying Yes to South East Asia](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Featured-Image-Strathcona-Collective-South-East-Asia-400x284.png)
When I think of innovation, I think of the external: technology and system upgrades that make our lives better. ...
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![Explore by Topic A PRESSING MATTER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_18-BlackCat-400x284.jpg)
Although Cumberland-based Black Cat Skateboards is a relatively new entity, its founder’s love of skateboarding ...
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![Explore by Topic AN ICONIC TRAIL IN THE MAKING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_17-VITrail-400x284.jpg)
Terry Lewis sits in his home office, staring at a computer screen displaying a GIS map that’s a spider’s web of ...
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![Explore by Topic WINE FROM THE SOIL UP](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_16-40Knots-400x284.jpg)
40 Knots Winery is alive with potential energy. I sit in the glassed-in terrace across from Layne Craig, who owns ...
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![Explore by Topic WILD GARDENING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_15-Gardening-400x284.jpg)
I remember the sweet satisfaction of pushing peas into the slowly warming spring soil of my first garden “plot,” a ...
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![Explore by Topic THE TAIL OF THE KITE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_14-MackLaing-400x284.jpg)
“Deputy Minister Department of Mines offers services of H. M. Laing of Comox [to] accompany Expedition … to act as ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: FARRAH RUSSELL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_19-Granada-400x284.jpg)
When your family moves to Spain for a year, there’s a lot to learn
My name is Farrah. I ...
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![Explore by Topic BALANCING NATURE AND NEW ENDEAVOURS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Opening-Image-Tyrah-Hofer-Strathcona-Collective-400x284.jpg)
Articles in this issue (my first as editor) feel like a love letter to our region. A testament ...
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![Explore by Topic Respect, Protect, Flourish](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Featured-Image-Strathcona-Collective-Respect-Protect-Flourish-400x284.png)
Does the phrase “you are a product of your environment” sound familiar? Many cultures have ...
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![Explore by Topic Migration of the Grizzlies](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Moira-Le-Patourel-Strathcona-Collective-400x284.jpg)
Vancouver Island has remote valleys, salmon streams, and mountainsides that, in summer, are ...
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![Explore by Topic Saying Yes to South East Asia](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Featured-Image-Strathcona-Collective-South-East-Asia-400x284.png)
When I think of innovation, I think of the external: technology and system upgrades that make ...
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![Explore by Topic A PRESSING MATTER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_18-BlackCat-400x284.jpg)
Although Cumberland-based Black Cat Skateboards is a relatively new entity, its founder’s love ...
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![Explore by Topic AN ICONIC TRAIL IN THE MAKING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_17-VITrail-400x284.jpg)
Terry Lewis sits in his home office, staring at a computer screen displaying a GIS map that’s ...
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![Explore by Topic WINE FROM THE SOIL UP](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_16-40Knots-400x284.jpg)
40 Knots Winery is alive with potential energy. I sit in the glassed-in terrace across from ...
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![Explore by Topic WILD GARDENING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_15-Gardening-400x284.jpg)
I remember the sweet satisfaction of pushing peas into the slowly warming spring soil of my ...
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![Explore by Topic THE TAIL OF THE KITE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CVC_Vol33_14-MackLaing-400x284.jpg)
“Deputy Minister Department of Mines offers services of H. M. Laing of Comox [to] accompany ...
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