All Entries Tagged With: "Festivals"
Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival 2010
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate the bounty of the Cowichan Region. The 6th Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival starts off with a culinary bang featuring a sumptuous buffet, wines and music at Cherry Point Vineyard Friday evening, September 17th. Throughout the weekend, you can sample wines at many of the Cowichan’s fabulous wineries, have a crisp cider [...]
Islands Folk Festival 25th Anniversary Photographs
Summer is fast approaching in the Cowichan Valley and that means one thing to music fans on Vancouver Island. The Islands Folk Festival will be coming up soon, specifically July 23rd through the 25th, 2010 at Providence Farm near Duncan. Tickets are available through the Cowichan Folk Guild as well as numerous Vancouver Island businesses. Information [...]
Islands Singer Songwriter Contest
Are you Vancouver Islands next great songwriter? The Cowichan Folk Guild, the folks who produce the Islands Folk Festival, proudly present the very first “Islands Singer Songwriter Contest.” Nine contest finalists will perform in front of a panel of music professionals and the entire audience on the opening Friday night of the 2010 Islands Folk [...]
Ladysmith Festival of Lights
Christmas season in the Cowichan Region isn’t complete without a trip up to Ladysmith for the Festival of Lights. The town is decorate with over 200,000 Christmas lights on the main street, a number of the side streets and pretty much every building lining them. Words don’t really do the display justice so I’ll stick with [...]
BC Forest Discovery Centre – Duncan
The BC Forest Discovery Centre began life as a private collection assembled by Gerry Wellburn and his family. Today, the collections include over 5,000 artifacts, operational steam locomotives, over 12 heritage buildings and an amazing collection of tools used in the logging industry. The centre is located on the Trans Canada highway just north of town, [...]
Keating Farm Estate – Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival
Keating Farm Estate was purchased in 2005 by The Land Conservancy, in part to protect many of the heritage building on the site but also to protect some wetlands and the general agricultural potential. Keating Farm Estate is located in the Koksilah area of the Cowichan Valley making the site readily accessible to locals and [...]
Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival Official Launch
The Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival started off with a bang tonight at the Satellite Bar & Grille at the Arbutus Ridge Country Club. The food was excellent as one would expect, take a look at what was available to sample: Sage and Prosciutto Wrapped Wild Sockeye Salmon, on Armenian Flatbread Seafood Ragout in a [...]
Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival, Sept 19-20, 2009
Eat, drink and be merry! A grand thought, that and just what is in store at the fifth annual Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival. The festival launches its celebration of the food and wine – and beer and cider — of this fertile region with an evening of fabulous food, wine and music in the [...]
Honeymoon Bay Blackberry Festival
On September 5, 2009 Cowichan Valley Photos is going to the Honeymoon Bay Outdoor Market on British Columbia’s spectacular Cowichan Lake to take in the annual Blackberry Festival. Vendors at the Honeymoon Bay Blackberry Festival sell blackberry products of all kinds: jelly, jam, vinegar to name a few and pies, pies, pies. We’re going early [...]
Maple Bay Wooden Boat Festival
SS Master at the Maple Bay Marina Wooden Boat Festival, Vancouver Island, British Columbia The 14th Annual Maple Bay Wooden Boat Festival will be held at Maple Bay Marina on May 15th through 17th, 2009. This is one of the earlier boat festivals that we get to enjoy on Vancouver Island during the year. Typically [...]
