
The merry month of May is highly anticipated in the Village of Cumberland. Since 1888, Villagers have gathered on ...

The legend of the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship doomed to never enter port, has been told and retold since the ...

Some of my dearest early memories involve water. My dad would tie a rope on my sister’s and my life jackets as we ...
Words & featured photo by
Erica Keen

One of the most iconic locations in the Comox Valley is Goose Spit, a long finger of land that shields Comox ...

Everyone remembers the first time they met Thomas Dunn. He was a rare individual who made an impression—mostly ...

If you take a moment to reflect upon the immense amount of organization, dedication, and perseverance required to ...
Words by
Kevin Flesher
Featured photo by
Jim Whyte

A few years ago, there was a local kerfuffle because a new sign on the Inland Island Highway proclaimed: “Welcome ...

I enjoy the practice of traditional karate for many reasons, including what it teaches me about Japanese and ...

Editor’s note: Rick Zyvitski, now retired, used to fly fighter jets out of Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Comox. We ...
Words by
Rick Zyvitski
Featured photo by
Sara Kerr

Most Campbell Riverites know the iconic blue cottage, nestled by the beach in Willow Point. For Sybil and Walter ...

When you drive west along the winding road that skirts Lower and Upper Campbell Lakes, as it hugs the rock face of ...

By all accounts, Johnny Bannerman is a very nice young man. He’s a member of the Cumberland Volunteer Fire ...

The third in our series imagining how the Comox Valley’s communities could look 20 years from now. ...

We got together in the living rooms of cabins, converted barns, half-finished homemade houses. We ate date ...

The second in our series imagining how the Comox Valley’s communities could look 20 years from ...

When my kids were younger, I logged long hours at the Rotary Skypark, going half-dizzy as they performed endless ...

This year, we’ll be exploring possible futures for the communities of the Comox Valley based on current community ...

While looking at a 1931 photo of a crew of men seated on a logging raft, long-time Cumberland resident Karl ...

The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is ancient. Cultures the world over document the presence of ...

In 1927, it was a day like any other for Peter Bardesonno as he clocked in alongside his father Jossepi for ...

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, thriving mining, logging, and fishing industries in the Comox Valley led to ...

It was the 1880s and “The Great Salmon Industry” was in its golden years on the British Columbia coast. Entire ...
Words & Photos by
Oriana Smy

Under the steady gaze of the Comox Glacier, looking east to the Strait of Georgia, the airfield at Canadian Forces ...

Have you ever wondered about parked cars at the side of Highway 19, near the bridge about three kilometres south ...
Words & Photo by
Pat Trask

Jane Wilde and Monika Terfloth are waiting for me at a patio on 5th Street. Not far from here, Terfloth once ...
Words by
Allie Jenkinson
Photos courtesy of
Jane Wilde

If you could divide people into two categories, there would be those who spend their lives taking from the planet, ...

Near the end of July 1918, the blackberries were just starting to ripen, a welcome development for the hungry ...

I grew up in a cheaply thrown together subdivision in Fort McMurray, erected during Alberta’s oil boom. Surrounded ...

The Purple Martins swirl and swoop in the air above my head, their bright chirping punctuating the sound of the ...

It's 5:30 a.m., April 15, 1942. The full dark of night is just lifting. Suitcases are packed and weighed and ...