Vancouver Island: the ultimate escape hatch from reality
Stanley Stewart gets a dream wilderness fix in Canada — without once having to pull out his Bear Grylls handbook
05 April 2020 - 00:00
On the far side of Canada, where the Rocky Mountains tumble down to the Pacific and the continent splinters into hundreds of islands, is one of the world's great escape hatches. For a century and more, Vancouver Island has attracted people looking for another life - dreamers, romantics, misfits, the wayward and the wandering...
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