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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.

UNCOVERING THE MYSTERIES OF TWIN ISLANDS

Twin Islands, tucked against Cortes Island’s southeast shore, has been a haven for a fascinating cast of ...

Stories from Sheltering in the Backrush.

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ANODIZED DOWNHILL DAYS

The birth of downhill racing on Vancouver IslandThe year was 1990. On the steep, raw edge of a Mount ...

Local downhill and enduro racers fit right into the Valley’s monster mountain bike heritage.

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GIVE BEETS A CHANCE

I’m writing these words in the height of summer, when I barely have enough time to juice a cucumber. But it will ...

This slow, easy technique makes their rich, sweet, earthy flavour even better.

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THE SEA AS MUSE

Nature, specifically the ocean, has long been the undercurrent of photographer and sailor John Kelsey’s life. It’s ...

Conserving the coastline with photographer John Kelsey.

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A DECADE OF DUELLING RÉSUMÉS

Seated in one of my college classrooms, I received an email from Canada Olympic Park—a confirmation that I would ...

My Path to Vancouver Island’s snowy slopes.

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OLD HOUSE ON THE RIVER

Darren Howlett is sitting in Locals Restaurant, a place he has a long history with. He’s worked in this dining ...

The Kirk family home that houses Locals Restaurant is part of Courtenay’s history—and future.

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FOSSIL FASCINATION

It is a universal truth, I think, that the further you move through adulthood, the more you’re aware that life is ...

The Comox Valley has many ancient secrets for citizen palaeontologists to discover.

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A WORK OF COMPASSION

Since 1983, Comox Valley Hospice Society (CVHS) has been working to support the physical, psychological, ...

The Comox Valley Hospice Society (CVHS) marks its 40th anniversary of care.

ECHOES IN CHINATOWN

At Cumberland Chinatown’s peak in the years just after the end of World War I, around 1500 residents bustled down ...

How exclusion, discrimination, and racism took their toll on a thriving community.

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CREATING SPACE FOR TRADITIONS, OLD AND NEW

At its root, tradition is the sharing of stories. Perhaps our oldest tradition is exactly that: storytelling. ...

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