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Welcome to the Dictionary of Island Terms. Its purpose is to pin down the patois of Vancouver Island by recording its toponyms, nicknames, phenomena, slang, personalities and places. Explore the...
View ArticleTripping Further Afield With Jesse Keefer
Further Afield Trips asks a local in a town well beyond the city limits where to find the best places to eat, drink, chill, and have a good time. Think of it as the country cousin to The Dishes. For...
View ArticleSuper Shroomy Fall Harvest Dinner With Forager / Chef Josh Blumenthal Set for...
On Sunday, October 13th there’s a super-sounding supper happening on Salt Spring Island. Trincomali Supper Club chef and forager Josh Blumenthal is island-hopping over from Galiano to create a...
View ArticleThe Breathtaking, Quintessential Gulf Island Journey Some Love, Others Hate
Milk Run | travel, ordeal | A local, commonly employed term that describes BC Ferries’ beautiful but time-consuming routes through the Gulf Islands or to more remote coastal communities where there...
View ArticleChef Jesse McCleery on Forgetting All the Chaos and Cooking Wild
Photo by Jarusha Brown. It’s been nearly two decades since Jesse McCleery, co-owner of Pilgrimme Restaurant, traded the prairie life for an Island one. We recently spoke with the chef who reflected on...
View ArticleNYE Feasting Set for Galiano Island’s Bodega Ridge
The GOODS from BODEGA RIDGE Galiano Island, BC | Join us on Galiano Island for a New Year’s Eve like no other! $95 includes appetizers, family-style three-course dinner, late night snack and gratuity....
View ArticleSalt Spring Wild Cider Seeks Assistant Cider Maker
The GOODS from Salt Spring Wild Cider Salt Spring Island, BC | Salt Spring Wild Cider is looking for a full-time Assistant Cider Maker. We make thoughtful cider using only organic apples here on our 5...
View ArticleSalt Spring Wild Cider Seeks Kitchen Manager / Chef
The GOODS from Salt Spring Wild Cider Salt Spring Island, BC | Salt Spring Wild Cider is looking for a creative and highly organized kitchen manager/chef for its small restaurant. SSW is developing a...
View ArticleJustine Smith Promoted to Executive Chef at Sonora Resort
The GOODS from Sonora Resort Sonora Island, BC | Canada’s wilderness luxury retreat, Sonora Resort, has a new executive chef at its helm. Justine Smith was previously sous chef at the award-winning...
View ArticleDo Your Part and See BC First
We travel-starved and isolated British Columbians should enter into a covenant with one another — that when this nightmare ends we commit to enjoying a local adventure before travelling anywhere else....
View ArticleBaja-Inspired ‘Tranquilo’ Restaurant Opens at Galiano Island’s Bodega Ridge
Scene from Bodega Ridge’s new Tranquilo. Photo: Jarusha Brown Photography Now that we’re in Phase 3, we’re ready to move from fantasizing about leaving town to actually making a break for the ferry....
View ArticleSalt Spring Wild Cider Seeks Creative Chef
The GOODS from Salt Spring Wild Cider Salt Spring Island, BC | Check out this amazing opportunity in the culinary arts on Salt Spring Island! Salt Spring Wild Cider is looking for a creative and...
View ArticleTickets for Coast Salish of Galiano Fundraiser Now Available
The Goods from Bodega Ridge Galiano Island, BC | Since time immemorial Indigenous people have inhabited the gulf islands. Prior to settler contact the Coast Salish Peoples moved as freely as the ocean...
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