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How Coca-Cola Shook Up Vancouver Island’s Soda Industry
Big soda bubbled to the top during the 20th century, a transition that upended decades of local soda tradition
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Book Review: Frances Barkley: Eighteenth-century Seafarer sails life's ebbs and flows
A tale that weaves research with imagination and the realities of true life.
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Dave Flawse
Island History Notable: Shanon Sinn enlightens history with haunting stories
Author Shanon Sinn discusses the history of Halloween on the Island, what lessons ghost stories can teach us, and old-timey sensationalist writers.
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5 natural disasters on Vancouver Island to remember
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The coolest band you’ve never heard of
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Nine badass women you won't see in history books
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The circling back of Kus-kus-sum
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The day the prince came to Merville
A look at a long-ago visit by a not-so-charming prince
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The circling back of Kus-kus-sum
Throughout its history, the Courtenay River Estuary has lived in constant flux. And now, a renewal comes once again.
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The coolest band you’ve never heard of
Three Island-born female punk rockers who blazed their own trail
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Dave Flawse
5 natural disasters on Vancouver Island to remember
When you look back through its history, Vancouver Island is a dangerous place to live.
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Dave Flawse
Nine badass women you won't see in history books
From discovering aquifers to chronicling the past, these outsiders redefined the Island in their own, unique ways.
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The cutest animals of gone-by eras
The world is in constant flux, and nothing stays the same, except of course cute animals—they will always pull our heart strings.
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Book Review: Up the Coast tells stories by the light of a kerosene lamp
With endless forests and a rugged coastline this memoir’s humorous and candid collection of stories delights readers, even if far away from…
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