Deep Cove Crier Archive

There are many reasons I haven’t migrated away from the Cove. When you’ve grown up here, it’s hard to imagine leaving this special place. From my first day of kindergarten at Blueridge elementary, first ski lesson on Mt.

Many years ago as a 22-year-old first-year teacher in Comox living in a rented beach cottage, I woke up to find myself surrounded by local mushroom pickers.

Fed up after hearing multiple reports from neighbours affected by property crime recently – with stolen items ranging from a six-metre boat to sentimental jewelry – Deep Cove residents have come together to “take back our community.

The late G.K. Chesterton is one of the most significant writers in the past 100 years. His “friendly enemy” George Bernard Shaw called him a colossal genius.

During the early to mid-1940s, Deep Cove was mainly made up of summer homes. Throughout the late ’40s and ’50s that began to change as young families seeking affordable homes began to buy cottages.

The Mount Seymour Little League Junior all-stars didn’t capture the Canadian title but the trip they made to the nationals was a big hit with the squad of 14- and 15-year-old players. “It was awesome,” said manager and coach Daryl Townsend.

The concern about the future of young families in North Van didn’t just start when the average price of a detached home hit $1 million-plus.

One of the biggest issues that I have heard about from my constituents, both in my office and at the doorstep, is the current situation in the housing market.

You wouldn’t know it today, but where Whistler Village sits, at the foot of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, is in fact the region’s original dump site.

RCMP Const. Joey Starr steers the rigid hull inflatable aluminum boat as it bounces over the choppy water of Burrard Inlet on a recent warm mid-August morning.