Getting (Heat) Pumped Micheal Tribes likes a challenge. He loves hiking and biking the rugged Yukon terrain, and in his younger years did 36-hour wilderness races involving hiking, map and...
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Scott Rennick loves the feeling of peace that comes from living on his forested acreage and spending time outdoors is something he has valued since childhood. “My mom would always say how much I loved being outside when I was a little kid. I absolutely love being in the forest.”
For alternative folk and roots musician Etienne Siew, Coquitlam, British Columbia, has been home since childhood. “When I was a little kid, Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam was one of my favourite places and where I caught my first trout,” says Etienne.
Harvey Su knows all about pride in one’s community, especially during this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. With a cold can of Molson Canadian in one hand and a warm BBQ chicken drumstick in the other, he and his two daughters cheered on their favourite team, the Canucks, from their Coquitlam home.
Three weeks after graduating high school on a perfect sunny day, Gracie Smith bid farewell to her mom, stepdad, brother, nanny, and poppa before embarking on a nine-hour drive southeast from her hometown of Quesnel, British Columbia.
For British Columbia builder Marc Brillon, construction is a family gene. As a teenager in northeastern Ontario, he honed his skills alongside his uncles and other contractors, learning invaluable lessons...
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Nathan Bartel was a high school shop teacher for over 20 years. But when a job opened up to run the Forestry-Trades program at Charles Bloom Secondary in Lumby, British Columbia, he jumped at the opportunity.
As a logger and third-generation caretaker for his acreage near Castlegar, British Columbia, Quintin Sperling has carried on the legacy of working hard, by spending his life in the forests...
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“Most people that get into forestry love the outdoors,” says Angela French of Salmo, British Columbia. Angela moved to the area from Abbotsford in 2013 for Selkirk College’s Forestry Program....
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If you told Jesse Wright at 19 that he would end up supporting youth in a rural logging town in northern British Columbia, he wouldn’t have believed you. But today,...
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