Clients
Courtenay Classic Printers
Kathy McIntyre, owner of Courtenay Classic Printers, with her new a state-of-the-art digital printer, a Ryobi Press 3404E/DI.client name:Courtenay Classic PrintersWith a loan from Ecotrust Canada Capital and Community Futures, Courtenay Classic Printers has bought a new full-colour digital offset press that will bring a needed service to the North Island.
Woodland Flooringclient name:Woodland Flooringvideo:Steve and Teresa Roscoe have positioned their wood-flooring company at the cutting edge of the market supplying the emerging green building movement in North America.
John and Mary Wyse
Wys-480.jpgclient name:John and Mary WyseOysters to dye for? Not exactly, but John and Mary Wyse have built a successful shellfish business and hair salon from their home on the Snuneymuxw First Nation Reserve.
Tofino Bus
Dylan Green, owner of Tofino Bus.client name:Tofino BusGoing green is an easy alternative for residents and visitors on the West Coast of Vancouver Island thanks to an entrepreneur named, fittingly, Dylan Green.
Lagoon Island Mariculture
client name:Lagoon Island MaricultureNorwegian fisherman Jacob Arnet was one of the first homesteaders to settle in Tofino in 1894.
Taku Wild
Vernon Cleaning Net.pngclient name:Taku WildPhoto credit: Michelle Williams
In 2004, Taku Wild, a Tlingit-owned fish company, cut out the middleman from its operations on the Taku River in northern BC. The result? The next year Taku Wild increased the amount of fish landed from 28,000 pounds to 200,000 pounds, or most of the commercially caught fish on the lower Taku River.
International Aeroproducts
client name:International AeroproductsIt’s hard to imagine any connection between BC’s miniscule aerospace and mammoth forestry industries.There was a time, however, when Sitka spruce were used to build the world’s ai
Eric Akis, Victoria Times Colonist, April 4, 2007
For this month's version of our Best of the Island series, I didn't recruit a tasting panel, opting instead to report solo on some of the Island's best seafood shops.
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