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Gabriola Museum Summer Kids Programs
This summer, the Gabriola Museum is excited to be offering new summer programs for kids.
read more...Museum’s GERTIE tours are back for 2017
Back by popular demand are the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society tours led by Danna Lewis, a native Gabriolan, who can tell a great story and keep you entertained during the whole tour.
read more...Fishing Report for July 4, 2017
Chinook fishing has been relatively strong this week. The Flat Tops, Grande, Thrasher and the Fingers have all been producing fish in the 7 to 20 pound range.
read more...Fishing Report for June 27, 2017
Well, the weather didn’t cooperate, and the chinook were in small schools on short bite times, but the 2017 Silva Bay Salmon Derby was a resounding success.
read more...Hilary Peach opens California exhibition celebrating tradeswomen and their craft
Gabriolan Hilary Peach (poet, welder, blacksmith and performance artist) gave a performance and taught a workshop as part of the opening of Rivet: An Exhibition on Women in the Trades at the Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, in San Luis Obispo, California.
read more...Vendors welcome for Community Garage Sale at the Commons
read more...Fishing Report for June 20, 2017
Fishing seems to have improved somewhat, and the plankton is starting to dissipate. We’re all hoping for light winds, and lots of fish.
read more...The new GERTIE Bus name is...
One hundred per cent, we are grateful to VLS in Folklife Village for donating 1% of their June profits to our Gabriola Environmentally Responsible Trans-Isle Express.
read more...#sluglife. Timelapse of Gabriola slug races past one million views
A spontaneous time-lapse of a Pacific Banana slug munching down on a dandelion leaf on Gabriola has garnered well over a million views on Facebook, making it arguably the most viral piece of content to take the name of Gabriola Island worldwide.
read more...Boutique de Paris wins top potential business pitch
As part of the ongoing Recycling Program at the Elementary School grade six/seven students were divided into pairs and given the challenge to create a hypothetical, viable, green, sustainable business idea using a commodity that has already had a life/use.
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