Storm Bay through a smoky haze
Storm Bay is found in the
Sechelt Inlet of the Pacific Ocean,
[1] near the mouth of
Narrows Inlet .
It is accessible by boat or seaplane.
Since the mid-1960s, the location has been home to a number of notable artists.
[2]
Storm Bay is in the
Coastal Douglas-fir Biogeoclimactic Zone of British Columbia, which consists of wet, mossy, dense
temperate rain forests .
[3]
[4]
Logged
Western redcedar with a
springboard notch
Homesteader
Storm Bay has been inhabited by the
shíshálh (or Sechelt) nation, specifically the téwánkw sub-group of ?álhtulich, stl'ixwim, and skúpa (Sechelt, Narrows, and Salmon Inlets),
[5] for around eight millennia. Existing
shell middens indicate ancient and long-term human habitation.
[6]
[7]
[8]
Storm Bay was
logged intensively and
homesteaded early in the twentieth century.
[9]
[10]
[11]
In 1907, the Sechelt Brick & Tile Company Limited built a small brickworks in Storm Bay which closed after two years due to the poor quality of the clay. The Canadian government built a large brick plant in 1921 as a
"returned men's project" ; it too was short-lived.
[9]
[12]
1960s and 1970s to present day
Many people loosely associated with the
intentional community movement
settled in Storm Bay during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the notable artists
Kate Craig (who died in Storm Bay in 2002,)
David Rimmer ,
Karen Jamieson ,
Hank Bull , and
Glenn Lewis .
[13]
[2]
In 1980 a
Royal Canadian Mounted Police member from the
Sechelt detachment could name only Storm Bay when asked about extant communes in the
Sunshine Coast region. Its inhabitants however eschew the word commune, and refer to Storm Bay as a neighbourhood.
[2]
Salish Sea
Skookumchuck Narrows
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ISBN
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49°39′43″N 123°49′19″W / 49.662°N 123.822°W / 49.662; -123.822