The thought of leprosy fills most of us with horror. Perhaps because of this, it’s a disease most of us...
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Craigdarroch Castle Originally home to coal baron Robert Dunsmuir and his wife, Joan, along with their 10 children, Victoria’s Craigdarroch...
Snow falls heavily outside, while inside the potbelly stove burns hot. The fragrant smell of fresh cedar shavings fills the...
Food, land and culture are entwined, but in British Columbia it seems like many of us have forgotten this. When...
It’s a dark night on the Juan de Fuca Strait. A few distant buoys are flashing. The wind whistles down...
The footprints of North America’s mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and camels are long gone, as is the evidence today of prehistoric...
High above the Trans-Canada Highway, where it cuts across the continental divide on the BC-Alberta border, there’s a small fossil...
This is a story about how dreams die. It’s about idealism and reality, yearning and deception, resilience and frustration. In...
Megan Yáláƛí Humchitt’s sudden stop almost caused me to collide with her. The dense rainforest had closed in around us...
Eric Marsden’s life has gone to the dogs—to 38 Alaskan racing huskies, maybe more. Some or all of the eight...
Anchored just offshore Kunga Island, Cascadia, Victoria-based Maple Leaf Adventures’s micro-expedition ship, bobs serenely as we land our passenger dinghy...
I’m drawn to the old towns, the beautiful but lesser-known places where industries like logging, mining and fishing once thrived....
