Salt Spring Island is named for the salty mineral springs located on the north end of the island.
Galiano Island is nine times as long as it is wide, and it is only nine kilometres at its widest.
In the mid-1800’s, Mayne Island was a stopping point for gold rush miners en route to the goldfields on the British Columbia mainland.
Pender Island is really two islands joined by a one-lane wooden bridge over a canal.
Saturna Island has been hosting a lamb barbecue every July 1 for more than half a century.
It takes just twenty minutes to travel by ferry from Nanaimo to Gabriola Island.
Many of Canada’s most acclaimed artists have chosen the Gulf Islands as their home.
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