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Allie Jenkinson
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Originally from Calgary, Allie Jenkinson studied English at the University of Victoria before working as a freelance writer for magazines such as Skier, Snowboard Canada, and Coast Mountain Culture. She currently resides in Cumberland.
Allie was the Guest Editor for CV Collective: Volume 5, Winter 2015 and is the Editor starting Winter 2017.
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24
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RAISING WOMEN
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Wendy Morin
Now in its 21st year, Comox Valley Girls Group provides a safe space for the development of female empowerment.
Famed feminist leader Gloria...
Volume
20
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WHERE YOUR HEART IS
Opening Introduction by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Sara Kempner
“I discovered mountain rivers late, for I was a prairie child… All I knew was that it was pure delight to be where the land lifted in peaks and plunged in...
Volume
19
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BREAKING THE SURFACE
Opening Introduction by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Scott Bell
Storytelling originates underground. It’s the job of a writer to drag little known stories to the surface. Journalists bring covered up or willfully ignored...
Volume
18
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THE SURROUNDING BLUE
Opening Introduction by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Paige Brown
I first sensed how landscape affects us while studying writing at the University of Saskatchewan. The books I recall most vividly from that time describe...
Volume
17
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LONG MAY YOU RUN
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Dancing In Gumboots is an intimate portrait of a bygone era on the coast, telling the tales of bold and inventive women arriving to the Valley in the '60s and...
Volume
17
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A PLACE UPSTREAM
Opening Introduction by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Ross Bodenmann
The rivers of the Comox Valley are made in the winter. All season long, drop by drop, the rain falls and they swell and boom around us. They are most alive in...
Volume
16
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SHUT IT DOWN
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Jenn Dykstra
I am a true introvert, my husband a true extrovert. Which means we spend a lot of time telling each other how weird we think the other one is. He gets anxious...
Volume
15
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FLOATING ON
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Jenn Dykstra
I don’t think I truly understood the word “bittersweet” before I became a mother. When I watch my son play with toys, whispering to himself on the floor,...
Volume
14
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A WILDERNESS RETREAT, REIMAGINED
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photos by Jenn Dykstra
Gallery photo by Todd MacSween
With a pair of new managers at the helm, a Comox Valley lodge switches gears to service both locals and tourists.
High on the...
Volume
14
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LETTING IN THE LIGHT
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Kareen Sanderson
Open. It brings to mind not one singular definition but a refusal of its opposites. Stubbornness. Inflexibility. A non-starter or a dead end.
There’s one...
Volume
13
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The stay-at-home defenceman
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photos by Jeremy Koreski
Born and raised on Vancouver Island, former NHL player Willie Mitchell embraces the captain role at Clayoquot Sound's newest...
Volume
13
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The First Snowfall
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photo by Scott Bell
In my 20s I was thrilled by the promise of a blank slate. I moved often, believing each new location was rich with the potential to solve anxiety, stalled...
Volume
11
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Casting Light
Words by Allie Jenkinson
Photos by Jenn Dykstra
The process of illumination at the Fanny Bay Candle Company.
The setting of The Fanny Bay Candle Company is pastoral. Donalda Lauzon...
Volume
5
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Lake Of Dragons
Words By Allie Jenkinson
Photos By Jenn Dykstra
An accomplished paddler reveals how Comox Lake’s appeal extends well beyond summer.
Though Comox Lake is a short drive from Cumberland’s...
Volume
5
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The Fire Inside
Words By Allie Jenkinson
Photos By Dave Prothero
And Jenn Dykstra
Our associations with the notion of inspiration are more fiction than fact, made evident by the familiar image of depressed and disheveled artist waiting for...
Volume
2
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Wreckin' Shop
Words By Allie Jenkinson
Photo By Jenn Dykstra
For the past 90 years Royston’s rusty monuments to Vancouver Island’s nautical history rests on the Comox Harbour seabed. Welcome to the Royston Ship...