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Vancouver Island's history — both political and geological — is brimming with independent, creative spirit. Personalities like Amor de Cosmos, Cougar Annie and Emily Carr are but a few of the characters that have inhabited this island paradise. Geologically, studies at UBC and other institutions point to evidence the island is a remnant of a rogue oceanic plateau formed out in the Pacific while the other continents were heaped together as Gondwana. Only recently has it crashed into North America to create the Salish Sea, Rockies and other formations. Given its peculiar history, it seems appropriate that, as BC Ferries continues its unrelenting drive to isolate islanders from the mainland, we Vancouver Islanders embrace this spirit we have been bequeathed by nature.

Long live Wrangellia and long live the spirit of the island!