Oh look: Statistics Canada’s community profile for Gabriola. The information comes from the 2006 census. Now, before you peek, take a few guesses about things like Gabriola’s population, median income for various types of households, number of dwellings, and population density per square kilometre for 2006. Then go take a look and see how accurate [...]
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From the Victoria Times Colonist: Hundreds decry Gulf Islands governance. A Sunday afternoon protest on Saltspring Island over governance of the Gulf Islands drew more than 300 people to Centennial Park in Ganges, protest organizers estimated. Given that it was cloudy and threatening to rain, we were quite surprised that many people came out, said [...]
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Looks like Cliff Cornell won’t be moving back to Gabriola. From the Daily News: Deserter leaves Canadian dreams behind. U.S. Army deserter Cliff Cornell won’t return to live in Canada after all. He now has a good job and plans to get married and settle down in his native Mountain Home, Ark., this fall. Gabriola [...]
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There’s a new Gabriola blog on the scene, so yay! It’s called Microfishing. The blogger is enjay, who is blogging under the name skadhu. You’ll have come across enjay if you read the comments on this blog. (Or perhaps you remember enjay’s potato box design, hmmm?) Enjay’s interesting, observant, and right here on Gabriola. I’ll [...]
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Cycle route planned for Gabriola, says the News Bulletin. I guess they just noticed. They say: A group of Gabriolans want to make their island roads more friendly for cyclists and walkers and have a plan to make it happen. The ad hoc Gabriola Transportation Committee created a report – Shared Roadways – Gabriola Island [...]
Update, August, 2010: The Flying Shingle reports: Gabriola Health Care Society accepts Rooks land offer. The Gabriola Health Care Society (GHCS) has accepted an offer of free land on which to build a community-owned medical clinic from Dr. Bob Rooks of Potlatch Holdings. GHC Foundation President Brenda Fowler said at a general meeting Tuesday at [...]
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A couple of statistics caught my attention in a June 7 article in The Daily News and referred to in Gabriolan.ca on the same day – History of Gabriola’s Quinsam ferry. During fiscal 2008-09 the MV Quinsam carried 823,578 passengers and 386,595 vehicles. Was the Quinsam the only vessel on the Gabriola-Nanaimo run during this [...]
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From the Daily News: Group of residents from small Islands begin petition to demand a provincial review of the Islands Trust. Some Gulf Island residents are collecting signatures to petition for a provincial review of the Islands Trust Act, saying the legislation is outdated and follows a rigid pro-environmental policy. (…) Gabriola Island resident Jeremy [...]
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From the Nanaimo News Bulletin: House fire displaces Gabriola Island family. A burning candle left unattended is to blame for a fire that has displaced a family from their home on Gabriola Island. Just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, a neighbour on Clarendon Road noticed smoke pouring from the living room of the single family dwelling. [...]
A wooden grid divides the soil into 12-inch squares. Each square holds a different crop, with just enough plants for the square. 16 radishes in this square, one marigold in that square, 4 lettuce plants in the next, and one broccoli plant in the square after that. Carrots: 16 per square. Spinach: 9 per square. [...]
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From the Nanaimo Daily News: Beekeepers ponder new reality of lifted quarantine. Vancouver Island beekeepers will meet in Nanaimo later this month to chart a direction for the industry after the province lifted a quarantine limiting the importation of bees to the Island. On May 1, the province lifted a quarantine that protected Island bee [...]
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A while ago there was a short piece in this blog on openparliament.ca an electronic record of the Canadian Parliament’s Hansard. Searching on the word gabriola, since 1994 shows that Gabriola was mentioned 13 times in the House by honourable members. Mostly, these were snippets and mentions in passing. There are a few exceptions. The [...]
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Today we welcome a new guest blogger, and his post will be next. His username is Gabriolore. Maybe I’ll be able to tempt him into writing another Gabriola blog post for us sometime!
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From the Gabriolan.ca mailbox: I was born on Gabriola and lived in the little house on a big rock, across from the quarry and behind the Coats’ house….. I love the island. My mother was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night in Mr Coats’ boat and I was born shortly after. [...]
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Do you know about WWOOF? It stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. It’s a volunteer program. The idea is that you go off to some area you’d like to visit, and spend your time volunteering on an organic farm there. You work 4-6 hours a day on the farm; your meals and accomodations [...]
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I came across several of these five-gallon water bottles next to a Gabriola forest stream. A moment later a man appeared, and proceeded to fill his water bottles right from the stream. Because it’s good Gabriola water, right? And he didn’t see the point in paying for drinking water at Village Foods when the stream [...]
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Here’s a shelter that could help homeless Haitians (or, um, homeless people on Gabriola). It’s cheap to build, and you can make one yourself. It’s a hexayurt. Wired.com explains. With just $100 worth of plywood and screws, almost anyone can build a shelter known as a Hexayurt that can last three years and possibly even [...]
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See those sticks, carefully wedged between the two trees? They make a nice seat. Then there’s the ring of stones on the ground in front of the seat — a campfire circle, it seems. A bit further along there are clothes draped on a tree. Pillows and bedding hang from a log, probably to air [...]
From the Nanaimo Daily News: Kerplunks earn second consecutive Juno nod. A group of Gabriola Island children entertainers (sic) have taken a second giant step toward becoming a household name in Canada. The Kerplunks were nominated for a second consecutive Juno Award and the odds of winning are better without stars like the Barenaked Ladies [...]
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Mike posted this as a comment on my previous blog post: You’re posting on a PUBLIC blog on a very PUBLIC internet about the people places and events that are PUBLIC to you and you’re surprised that someone posted information PUBLICLY about YOU? OK, bit by bit:
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From the Islands Trust: Gabriola Island couple become first to join property tax exemption program. Stanley and Maxine McRae are the first landowners on Gabriola Island to receive an annual property tax exemption recognizing the permanent conservation covenant they placed on their property. The Islands Trust introduced the Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program (NAPTEP) [...]
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I don’t often notice a name from Gabriola in the news, but look — The Times Colonist writes about Shena Meadowcroft’s experience with the Vancouver Police. The last thing Vancouver police Const. Rob Merriott was expecting from a protester after a confrontation at the Olympics opening ceremony was a letter thanking him and his colleagues [...]
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I drive along North Road towards the south end of the island, and note with some annoyance that a vehicle a ways ahead of me has stopped, in the middle of the *#$%^@! road, for no apparent reason. On the other side of the road, a white truck is backing up to get back to [...]
He’s moved to Gabriola to farm. He’s in his fifties, he’s got nine kids, and there’s no school, so he teaches his own children. He realizes that he ought to know more himself, so he works to upgrade his education. He sends away for books, and he studies. Finally he decides he’s ready to take [...]
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From the Times Colonist: Search engine rolling over writers. Imagine that a giant monster invades your country. But the beast is not gobbling up people or homes. It’s devouring our books. That’s what most writers insist is happening with Google, the Internet search-engine behemoth. Since 2005, Google has been digitizing the world’s books. Reportedly, its [...]
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