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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 GIVE IT A REST](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol32_OpeningIntro_Header-400x284.jpg)
When I was a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s in Montreal, stores were closed on Sundays. Every single store. ...
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![Explore by Topic FEATURED ARTIST: LAURIE MARTZ](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_FeaturedArtist_Header-400x284.jpg)
Laurie is a “late in life” painter who moved to the Comox Valley after retiring in 2015 from a busy career as a ...
![Explore by Topic FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: JIM WHYTE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_FeaturedPhotographer_Gallery-400x284.jpg)
Jim is a fifth-generation Comox Valley resident, born and raised here. His interest in photography began in junior ...
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![Explore by Topic FOLLOW THE MOUNTAIN HOME](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_Mountains2_Header-400x284.jpg)
It is usually late May when I embark on the first mountain trip of the season. In this particular year I was ...
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![Explore by Topic THE COAL BENEATH OUR FEET](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_Coal2_Header-400x284.jpg)
Starting in 1888, a vast labyrinth of extraction tunnels was carved beneath the village of Cumberland, the old ...
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![Explore by Topic DINNER IS SERVED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_LUSH2_Header-400x284.jpg)
Eating local is a popular concept in the Comox Valley, with its long growing season and wealth of farms producing ...
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![Explore by Topic MAGIC IN THE DYE POT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_DyePot_Header-400x284.jpg)
When I was a kid growing up in the northern boreal forest, my mother took me and my siblings out foraging for ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS WRONG](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Intro_Header-400x284.jpg)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard, 1843
I don’t ...
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![Explore by Topic WERE IT NOT FOR THE BIKE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Bikes_Header2-400x284.jpg)
This past January, I received an email from the organizer of the BC Epic thanking me for my registration.
Which ...
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![Explore by Topic ELDER VALLEY: RETIREMENT REDEFINED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_ElderValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
Opening up, embracing new ideas, and making time for wonder.
I spent most of my career trying ...
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![Explore by Topic GIVE IT A REST](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol32_OpeningIntro_Header-400x284.jpg)
When I was a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s in Montreal, stores were closed on Sundays. ...
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![Explore by Topic FEATURED ARTIST: LAURIE MARTZ](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_FeaturedArtist_Header-400x284.jpg)
Laurie is a “late in life” painter who moved to the Comox Valley after retiring in 2015 from a ...
![Explore by Topic FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: JIM WHYTE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_FeaturedPhotographer_Gallery-400x284.jpg)
Jim is a fifth-generation Comox Valley resident, born and raised here. His interest in ...
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![Explore by Topic FOLLOW THE MOUNTAIN HOME](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_Mountains2_Header-400x284.jpg)
It is usually late May when I embark on the first mountain trip of the season. In this ...
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![Explore by Topic THE COAL BENEATH OUR FEET](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_Coal2_Header-400x284.jpg)
Starting in 1888, a vast labyrinth of extraction tunnels was carved beneath the village of ...
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![Explore by Topic DINNER IS SERVED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_LUSH2_Header-400x284.jpg)
Eating local is a popular concept in the Comox Valley, with its long growing season and wealth ...
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![Explore by Topic MAGIC IN THE DYE POT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_DyePot_Header-400x284.jpg)
When I was a kid growing up in the northern boreal forest, my mother took me and my siblings ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS WRONG](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Intro_Header-400x284.jpg)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard, ...
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![Explore by Topic WERE IT NOT FOR THE BIKE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Bikes_Header2-400x284.jpg)
This past January, I received an email from the organizer of the BC Epic thanking me for my ...
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![Explore by Topic ELDER VALLEY: RETIREMENT REDEFINED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_ElderValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
Opening up, embracing new ideas, and making time for wonder.
I spent most ...
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