I'm Emese, and my husband Géza and I are the proud owners of Freyja, a new croissant shop in downtown Campbell ...
Colin Somers was born in Powell River and has lived in Campbell River for 50 years. He has spent most of that time ...
For more than 35 years, Campbell River Children's Choir (CRCC) has provided children and young adults with the ...
The gritty exfoliation of sand between toes, the softness of dewy grass underfoot, the wet flecks of mud that ...
Canada’s dark history of Indigenous people and government authorities is riddled with violence and mistrust. ...
As I look down at my crampons kicked solidly into the thin ice, I feel the exposure of being hundreds of metres ...
Flip through the spectacular pages of A Taste of Life on Quadra Island and you'll never guess the heroic efforts ...
The Strathcona Food Hub, put simply, is a group of collaborators working on contemporary food issues in the ...
I'm entering Grade 10 and I go to Timberline Secondary School. I have lived in Campbell River my whole life. It is ...
An ice climber hangs from a mountain cliff so remote, so otherworldly, that its location is kept secret. A chef ...
Opening Introduction by
Trevor McMonagle
Photo by
Alex Brennan
We are blessed to live on an island with so much wild food at our fingertips. An outdoor table is spread before us ...
Words & Photos by
Jade Berg
Photos by
Jesse Bone
Here follows the abridged story of the evolution of the Sayward Valley from as near the beginning as we dare ...
Life on Earth exists from and because of soil, yet many of us go about our lives with little thought about its ...
Cruising over the turbulent waters of Discovery Passage is a familiar activity to many Campbell Riverites. The ...
Words & Photo by
Eiko Jones
In February 2018, Lucas Schuller drove from Campbell River down to Cumberland to see the Lonesome Ace Stringband ...
When Chris Goulet was 14 years old, his brother put a set of clippers in his hand and said, "Give me a mohawk." ...
Five years ago we made a quick decision to sell our house on Salt Spring Island and seek out a more peaceful home ...
Words by
Sarah Carty
Words and Photos by
Dwayne Roberge
If a crow flew from Campbell River to Bute Inlet Lodge, he would aim for Mount Doogie Dowler. Doogie resembles a ...
For more than half a century, Special Olympics sport training programs and competitions have empowered athletes ...
Terri-Lynn Papagiannis (TL PAPA) is an artist and art educator, born and raised on Vancouver Island. At a young ...
River Love
After yearning for decades
to say I love you and mean it, today
on my practised water’s-edge path
I ...
True Dennison has been in love with photography and film for as long as she can remember. Growing up on the ...
“I never knew what I wanted to do,” Valerie Lamirande confided to me. She had dabbled in photography, woodwork, ...
Like the daily ebb and flow of the tides along the shores of Vancouver Island, there is constant movement of ...
Nestled amongst the towering forest on Galiano Island and backing onto Bluffs Park, Leña Residency is a retreat ...
Located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island within the traditional territory of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First ...
Words & Photos by
Kira Marshall
Island Clayworks would like to acknowledge that we operate our business in the traditional territory of the ...
Building custom homes in Campbell River and the surrounding area is a gift not every craftsman gets to experience. ...
The honeybee, or apis mellifera, is what we call a pollinator. Flying from flower to flower collecting nectar and ...
When I moved to Vancouver Island in 2009, finding like-minded “horse folks” to ride with was top priority. I ...
My family and I have lived on the northern end of Quadra Island for two years. We moved here from Manitoba, and ...
THE GARDENING NARRATIVE
HEATHER KELLERHALS–STEWART
Behind every widely held belief there is a narrative—true ...
The Campbell River Area Angel Group (CRAAG) was founded in February 2019 when Campbell River Economic Development ...
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
“Shhh, listen … ...
Words & Photos by
Lisa Levesque
Oh no! What? Wait for another traffic light? Simultaneous laughter, as our eyes connect, and we realize we have ...
In a way, a farm is like the ocean, a fixture of the landscape, yet in constant motion. Every season brings a part ...
When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part warehouse, part ...
Thanks be to Ron Burrell, a former provincial Forest Service Manager, who, in the early 1990s, took on the job of ...
Words & Photos by
Bob Dice
Words by
Trevor McMonagle
Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road closures and ...
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson
This ...