I spent several years on Salt Spring Island as a small child, living with my hippie parents in a ramshackle farmhouse on the south end of the island. My mother painted large canvases and dried herbs ...

Salt Spring Island, the flagship of British Columbia's Gulf Islands, is not that kind of place - at least not if you arrive, as we did, on the Saturday morning float plane from Vancouver. Just steps ...

SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — In a makeshift studio tucked in the forest near a strip of sandy shoreline, Trevor Whelon fires up his kiln and begins a day of glassblowing while his son and his friends ...

No need to ask the captain’s permission to come aboard a Salish Sea cruise to the southern Gulf Islands. A simple willingness to see with fresh eyes will do, especially when visiting the largest ...

SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — Wearing a pair of railroad-style overalls, her hair pulled back in a red bandanna, potter Francine Hampson-Reid popped out of her studio to greet visitors. “You found us!” ...

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Since Salt Spring Island's only public laundry facility closed in 2016, resident Cherie Geavreau has wanted to open a new one, but there's a big obstacle in the way. The local authority that regulates ...