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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 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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This past January, I received an email from the organizer of the BC Epic thanking me for my registration.Which ...
Three days, two cyclists, and one island-sized mission.
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Opening up, embracing new ideas, and making time for wonder.
I spent most of my career ...
Reflections from an older resident.
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