What’s your Lasqueti story? 
 

Gwyn Cole has been with Lasqueti since she was a baby, coming on her dad’s sailboat. In the 50’s her family bought the general store in False Bay - source of rubber boots,  food, nuts & bolts and of course penny candy. 

 

She was taught by Pat Forbes and went to school with the Millicheaps, Forbes, Manns & Ryans. She had “quite the childhood,” roaming the Rock. When her parents split, she moved to Courtenay with her mom, returning in Grade 11 to finish high school here. She rode the ferry [I’m drawing a blank, what was the old ferry’s name?] with her - infamous? Notorious? legendary father, Captain [what was his name - Al?]. Then - “I went off to see the big world, which lasted only 30 years!” Gwyn came back in 2005, and now resides in the Elder Cottages at the Judith Fisher Centre. She has put in a huge vegetable garden and goes for walks and mushroom hunting with the incredibly fluffy Otis.
   

She is diving deep into dying with natural materials (we save our avocado rinds and pits for her) and creating beautiful scarves and bags with Lasqueti leaves. 

 

Q: If you had a magic wand, what is one thing you would change on Lasqueti?

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A: “Can I have two? - I’d pave the roads and have a 7-day-a-week ferry." 

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Q: What would you never want to change?

 

A:" The beauty of this place."

– Suzanne Heron