Salt Spring Island, the flagship of British Columbia's Gulf Islands, is not that kind of place - at least not if you arrive, as we did, on the Saturday morning float plane from Vancouver.

SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — In a makeshift studio tucked ... a glimpse of the artists at work was as easy as picking up a map and following a self-guided tour of 37 studios marked along the ...

Its quietly exploding artistic community has led to Salt Spring Island becoming a rapidly growing ... as easy as picking up the free self-guided map available at the downtown Ganges Info Center ...

SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — Wearing a pair of railroad ... First things first: Pick up a map on the ferry or in Ganges to find the locations featured in the studio tour, or go to ...

That's when Janet Clouston, executive director of the Salt Spring Island Chamber of Commerce, told us this Gulf Island between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island was famous for it.

Tracy Johnson is a CBC reporter based in Calgary and has family living on B.C.'s Salt Spring Island who are voting Yes in a referendum today on whether to make the island a municipality.

Thirty-nine homes were built in Summerside about a decade ago leaving an undeveloped six-acre parcel of land to complete the sub-division in Ganges, Salt Spring Island’s largest village and ...