In the Community

The following are unedited snippets compiled by archival assistant Cicely Ashley, from past Undercurrents. To read the complete articles or to follow up on information please contact the Bowen Museum and Archives at bihistorians@telus.

The community project grand unveiling is June 24

The grocery store threshold has a recollective property. As in, you cross it and realize that you’ve forgotten to grab even one of your 25 cloth bags from their front hall closet nesting spot.

With school winding down, sailing season is gathering speed. Island youth Ryan Champoux, 12, and Chris Oben, 11, have been sailing for half their lives (six years). The sailing partners race two-person dinghies, double-handed RS Fevas.

A ball and four boxes are all that are needed for Bowen Island Community Recreation’s latest championship.

We know quite a lot about the early European settlers on Bowen Island, especially in the steamship era, but what about those from non-European cultures? What about the Chinese and Japanese people who worked at the explosives factory in Tunstall Bay,

I recently returned to Bowen after being away for several months in an art-orientated city. At first I couldn’t get enough of walking in our forests everyday, connecting with the trees.

Knowing our Place workshop earlier this month challenged identity and belonging on colonized lands

Bilingual on Bowen? You could be! Bowen Island has recently become home to a local chapter of Canadian Parents for French (CPF).

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the several hundred Bowen Islanders who so generously supported the Bowen Island Community Foundation in 2018.