Nancy Shields

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Nancy Shields

Nancy Shields

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Homebase: Nanaimo

Nancy is a bit of a mixed bag. When she is not hitting the slopes or riding her bike, she gets creative. With an arsenal of marketing, photography and design, combined with an extensive background in photojournalism, print and web design. She is always on the lookout for new and exciting ventures to be a part of.

Stories by Nancy Shields

Kiixin
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#ExplorePortAlberni Instead of counting highway lines – because there were none – I looked out the...

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Port Alberni Hiking
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#ExplorePortAlberni “That’s a MacGillivray's warbler,” said our intrepid guide Sandy McRuer, pausing...

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Spring is a time for renewal, growth and getting back out in the garden.

Taking up a new hobby...

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Craft Beer
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“I’m not sure how it happened,” said the man sitting next to me with a flight of beer in front of...

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Biking
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Somebody, or probably a lot of them at the front of the pack are probably grinding their gears as...

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Houseboat Shuswap
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Somewhere between being shot out of the waterslide like a cannon ball and jumping off the top deck...

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Sunshine Coast
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“This whole area is one fantastic, giant archeological site,” Candace Campo told me as we convened...

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Sunshine Coast
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Roxanne Jerema’s journey from working as a taxidermist in land-locked Saskatchewan to running a...

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Canoeing
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The project’s premise was simple: one tree equals one sea-worthy canoe built by many hands, some...

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Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump
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The wind is strong from the east. Our jackets flap, our hair tangles and our invisible scent carries...

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Frank Slide Interpretative Trail in the Crowsnest Pass
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On April 29, 1903 at 4:10 a.m., 82 million tons of rock broke off Turtle Mountain’s summit and came...

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Remmington Museum
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“We like to say that Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and the Royal Tyrrell Museum are the battleships...

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