Tiny tugs
Growing up in Tofino, Ron Burchett used to drive the shipyard workers crazy asking questions about the boats they worked on. To keep him busy, they’d give him blocks of wood and tell him to carve his own.“Then they realized I had some sort of talent,” he says, “but they weren’t sure what the hell to do with me.” more...
Treasure island
Its security system is what also makes it a refuge for U.S. draft dodgers, pot growers and escapists: isolation. It is here, in this unlikely location, that Tolling Jennings and Ray Lipovsky are literally minting money.“What we originally wanted to do was get precious metals into the hands of people in the Gulf Islands to support the economy and to get precious metals back into the currency,” Jennings explains. more...
Quiet Stampede
They got their first taste of beautiful B.C. when they hauled the kids and trailer over the Rockies for summer holidays. Apparently they liked what they saw. With retirement in sight, Albertans are tying up oil-fuelled real estate deals across B.C., with Vancouver Island their new homestead away from home. more...
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