VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. — Our car had just completed one more zigzag on the road when we first beheld it: a stellar view across a mile-wide lake to where the mountains melted into a horizon of blue ...

Strathcona Provincial Park, ­established in 1911, has not always been the serene and majestic ­wilderness area it is known as today. Current visitors might not be aware that mining and logging still ...

In the summer of 1910, 20-year-old Myra Ellison sent a letter home to her mother from the shores of Campbell Lake on Vancouver Island, where she was surrounded by a wilderness of old-growth forests ...

Climate change over the next 50 years will affect Strathcona Provincial Park more than any other park in British Columbia, says new research from the University of Victoria.Debra Brash Climate change ...

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A Class B park was created in 1965 within Class A Strathcona to allow for the construction of the Myra Falls copper-zinc mine | submitted To begin the ascent of Golden Hinde – the tallest peak on ...

VICTORIA — Comox Valley Search and Rescue responded to five people in two incidents Sunday in the backcountry of Strathcona Provincial Park, including a trio holed up in a cabin who didn’t realize ...

Search and rescuers are hopeful they will be able to locate a missing Vancouver Island man who was last seen camping in the province's oldest provincial park. Comox Valley Ground Search and Rescue ...

A 26-year-old Victoria man, who decided to climb Mount Albert Edward in Strathcona Provincial Park Saturday despite bad weather conditions, was rescued Sunday morning after an intensive overnight ...