Dave Flawse

Writer. Editor. Publisher of VancouverIslandHistory.com

Canada

Below you will find ten of Dave's recent publications.

Dave is the publisher of VancouverIslandHistory.com, a freelance writer, and an editor. He writes about history, but also other lesser-known, remarkable stories hiding in plain sight.

A firm believer in literary citizenship, he promotes and furthers literary arts in British Columbia with the goal of helping this robust and diverse community impact as many readers as possible.

Dave is privileged and grateful to be allowed to work and study on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Nuu-chah-nulth Peoples and pay respect to their rich cultural heritage and natural environment.

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Feature Articles

Watershed Sentinel
12/04/2024
A Way Through | Watershed Sentinel

Underground explorers on Vancouver Island are charting Canada's longest cave, hoping to win protection for a fragile karst landscape

The Collective Mags
11/07/2024
Hornby Island Fossils

Siltstone is relatively soft, and, with storms battering the shores, new fossils are exposed on Hornby Island every winter.

The Collective Mags
10/31/2024
Cleaning our coastlines

During a beach cleanup on Vancouver Island's West Coast, Jeff Ignace notices a familiar sight-a luxury cooler. This one is a bright orange colour, dubbed King

The Collective Mags
07/17/2024
The Fish and Game Club

If you've spent any time around Comox Lake, you've likely heard the clap of gunfire booming out from the "Fish and Game," or Courtenay & District Fish and

The Collective Mags
04/02/2024
The herring gold rush of 1979

In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from their bibs and clung to their fingernails.

Vancouverislandhistory
10/14/2022
The circling back of Kus-kus-sum

The Kus-kus-sum site on the Courtenay River estuary is accustomed to change. As the liaison between ocean and river, estuaries live in constant flux-a ritual of ebbs and floods but also a centuries-meandering as the river forges new pathways through its delta.

CVC
05/19/2022
TUNED TO THE COMMUNITY'S FREQUENCY - CVC

100.7 The Raven's diverse team revitalizes a language and works to heal a nation. A lone modular office building with blue vinyl siding rests at the end of a gravel driveway on the edge of Homalco First Nation near Campbell River. From a wide, meshed antenna protruding from its shingled roof, a signal ...