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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.
When we think about hunting and gathering, the season we usually think of is fall. For many of us, there’s nothing ...
Local gourmet comfort foods help you settle in for winter.
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My husband and I moved to the Comox Valley four years ago. From the start, we’ve enjoyed navigating our way around ...
An ode to the charms of the secondhand bookstore.
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When I was a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s in Montreal, stores were closed on Sundays. Every single store. ...
Go on, take a whole day off. We used to do it once every week.
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Laurie is a “late in life” painter who moved to the Comox Valley after retiring in 2015 from a busy career as a ...
Jim is a fifth-generation Comox Valley resident, born and raised here. His interest in photography began in junior ...
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It is usually late May when I embark on the first mountain trip of the season. In this particular year I was ...
A journey to one of Strathcona Provincial Park’s most iconic peaks.
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Starting in 1888, a vast labyrinth of extraction tunnels was carved beneath the village of Cumberland, the old ...
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Eating local is a popular concept in the Comox Valley, with its long growing season and wealth of farms producing ...
Creative culinary events help put gustatory joy on everyone's menu.
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When I was a kid growing up in the northern boreal forest, my mother took me and my siblings out foraging for ...
Fibre and fungi are key ingredients in Amy Crook’s creative process.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard, 1843 I don’t ...
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