Featured Artist: Terri-lynn Papagiannis
Terri-Lynn Papagiannis (TL PAPA) is an artist and art educator, born and raised on Vancouver Island. At a young ...
ALL Volume 5
Featured Words: Neall Calvert
River Love
After yearning for decades
to say I love you and mean it, today
on my practised water’s-edge path
I ...
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Featured Photographer: True Dennison
True Dennison has been in love with photography and film for as long as she can remember. Growing up on the ...
Art, Medicine, and Soap
“I never knew what I wanted to do,” Valerie Lamirande confided to me. She had dabbled in photography, woodwork, ...
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Q̓ʷalayu House
Like the daily ebb and flow of the tides along the shores of Vancouver Island, there is constant movement of ...
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Leña Residency
Nestled amongst the towering forest on Galiano Island and backing onto Bluffs Park, Leña Residency is a retreat ...
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Experience Tahsis
Located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island within the traditional territory of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First ...
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Inspired by Nature
Island Clayworks would like to acknowledge that we operate our business in the traditional territory of the ...
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It’s In The Details
Building custom homes in Campbell River and the surrounding area is a gift not every craftsman gets to experience. ...
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Healthy Hives
The honeybee, or apis mellifera, is what we call a pollinator. Flying from flower to flower collecting nectar and ...
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Riding Off-Grid
When I moved to Vancouver Island in 2009, finding like-minded “horse folks” to ride with was top priority. I ...
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Little River
My family and I have lived on the northern end of Quadra Island for two years. We moved here from Manitoba, and ...
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The Gardening Movement
THE GARDENING NARRATIVE
HEATHER KELLERHALS–STEWART
Behind every widely held belief there is a narrative—true ...
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Building a Technology Hub
The Campbell River Area Angel Group (CRAAG) was founded in February 2019 when Campbell River Economic Development ...
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Paddling Adventures
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
“Shhh, listen … ...
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Traffic Jam
Oh no! What? Wait for another traffic light? Simultaneous laughter, as our eyes connect, and we realize we have ...
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Small Farm, Big Ideas
In a way, a farm is like the ocean, a fixture of the landscape, yet in constant motion. Every season brings a part ...
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Vertical Madness
When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part warehouse, part ...
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Burrell’s Bog
Thanks be to Ron Burrell, a former provincial Forest Service Manager, who, in the early 1990s, took on the job of ...
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In Motion
Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road closures and ...
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ABUELO’S CORN TORTILLAS
Handmade, gluten free and using 100 per cent certified-organic ingredients, Abuelo’s tortillas are a delicious, ...
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COMPLEX TERRAIN
Strike inwards on foot from Vancouver Island’s inhabited perimeter and, in a few hours walk beyond the strip ...
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HERBALISM 101
The summer months have faded into fall as many look forward to the winter adventures the Comox Valley has to ...
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DANCING IN THE DARK
When I arrive at Horne Lake caves, I’m warned by the guide that “it will be wet.” Myles leads us to Main Cave. ...
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QUIETLY QUADRA
Quadra Island is the kind of place that offers free wood, free books, free money, and free hugs; the kind of place ...
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FUMBLING TOWARDS GRACE
It took momentous effort to get to the top of this hill and I celebrate the fact that I haven’t vomited on Mt. ...
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SHOW OF PROGRESS
In a list of quintessential Comox Valley events, it can be argued that the World Community Film Festival sits ...
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FINDING FORBIDDEN
There may be no finer view in the Comox Valley than the one from the top of Mount Becher in mid-winter. On a ...
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PULLING PLASTIC
Desperately clinging to a blob of wall-mounted epoxy plastic can be considered a contrived experience by many rock ...
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INSPIRED BY SOUND
It was a moment that I knew I would cherish long after the crowd departed. I stood in Village Park during The Big ...
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BRIDGING HISTORY
Roaming north along Royston’s Union Colliery Line, the air is damp and heavy with the scent of smoke wafting from ...
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SEWING WILD
Adventure is dirty business. With piles of gear comes the need for novel ways to store, stow and transport gear ...
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YOUTHFUL CYCLE
Emilly Johnston is a force of nature on local singletrack. At only 13 years old, Johnston is quickly establishing ...
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MATERIALIZING THE SOUL
The wearable art of jewellery has been a form of self-expression for millennia. These adornments have been seen as ...
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OSCAR’S STORY
Oscar was a beautiful, flamed point feline who lived out his days on sunny counter tops and in the laps of locals ...
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THE HUMAN FACTOR
It’s Saturday morning at Mount Cain. The 50 centimetres of new, inbound snow is becoming tracked out. You begin to ...
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WHEN HERRING SPAWN
One of our most memorable experiences in the Comox Valley began on March 1, 2015, when we received an email from a ...
LITTLE VALLEY: SHOLEH KERRIGAN
I was born in the Comox hospital overlooking the ocean and trees and mountains. As soon as I was born I was ...
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A TREASURE IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD
Dull, dark and rainy days are inevitable during winter on Vancouver Island, but thanks to a local gem shining ...
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THE VERDANT VALLEY
There is a deep-rooted satisfaction in food production for both commercial and personal use. On the outside, the ...
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LAKE OF DRAGONS
Though Comox Lake is a short drive from Cumberland’s west end, past the Chinese town site and a quaint collection ...
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WHERE THE TRAIL BEGINS
Trail building in Cumberland dates back to the 1980s, when a freewheeling group of tree planters and mountain ...
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THE FIRE INSIDE
Our associations with the notion of inspiration are more fiction than fact, made evident by the familiar image of ...
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