Explore Collective Magazine Articles By Topic
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 A CABIN BUILT FROM THE WOODS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_19-Cascadia_Header.jpg)
I met Cyril Werlen from cascadianwoodtech almost a year ago in our favourite coffee shop. Unbeknownst to me, this ...
CascadianWoodTech.
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![Explore by Topic OUR CHURCH BUILDINGS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_18-Church_Header.jpg)
When I was a little girl in the 1960s, we’d play hand games to amuse ourselves: cat’s cradle, shadow puppets, and ...
Opening the doors to change.
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![Explore by Topic CHEMAINUS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_17-Chemainus_Header.jpg)
The sun rises from the east, cresting over the peaks of Salt Spring Island to bring light to the little village of ...
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![Explore by Topic DAIRY FARMING ON VANCOUVER ISLAND](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_16-HappyCows.jpg)
My husband Kyle and I grew up in the Comox Valley, both of us lovingly raised on the family farms started by our ...
Happy Cow Dairy Farm to Table
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![Explore by Topic PRE-LOVED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_15-Books.jpg)
I have always loved reading, but fell hard for books when I was eight. We were living in an amateur’s converted ...
An ode to used books.
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![Explore by Topic COMOX MARINA](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_14-ComoxMarina.jpg)
The Purple Martins swirl and swoop in the air above my head, their bright chirping punctuating the sound of the ...
Changing Times & Tides.
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![Explore by Topic FORGING PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CVC_Vol12_13-FireHammer.jpg)
By his own admission, James Emslie has a knack for making modern things from other people’s discarded items. His ...
FIRE & HAMMER FORGEWORKS.
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![Explore by Topic CREATING FUN & GAMES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol12_12-JasonKapalka.jpg)
There’s a new sign up at the Harbour Centre building in Comox that maybe doesn’t quite fit with the other ...
An interview with Jason Kapalka.
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![Explore by Topic HARVEST & SHADOWS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol12_11-ElkFalls.jpg)
Summer lays down to sleep in the cool woods. The crisp fall air wakens. Trails of dark wet earth wind through the ...
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![Explore by Topic STRATHCONA PARK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol12_9-StrathconaPark.jpg)
The map of British Columbia is festooned with splotches of green, and we've got the granddaddy of them all—2500sq ...
Getting by with a little help from our friends.
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