Hornby Island

• BC Ferries investigating after construction damages First Nation midden on Hornby Island

  BC Ferries has apologized and launched an investigation after construction work on Hornby Island resulted in damage to a historic, protected midden.

  Canada

  Aug 23, 2023
  
• BC Ferries reports highest-ever quarter for vehicle traffic

  BC Ferries' officials say traffic levels are close to pre-pandemic levels, in a press conference Thursday.

  Canada

  Aug 18, 2022
  
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• Concerns raised after video shows thousands of dead herring dumped off B.C. coast

  The group Conservancy Hornby Island said they received an anonymous tip on March 18 that a fishing boat had dumped thousands of the dead fish north of Nanaimo.

  Environment

  Mar 23, 2021
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• Guilty plea in controversial B.C. ‘seal bomb’ incident caught on camera

  Allan Marsden was fined $8,000 and prohibited from owning explosives for the next three years, DFO said.

  Sep 8, 2020
• Discovery of sea lion shot in head on B.C. island renews debate between conservationists, fishing industry

  The conservation group that made the discovery said it's witnessed several abuses of sea lions during a commercial fishery.

  Environment

  Mar 20, 2019
• Hornby Island’s only public school badly damaged in Sunday morning fire

  No one was hurt, but the school suffered major damage to the front entry and offices, while a number of classrooms were damaged by smoke.

  Aug 26, 2018
• ‘She was the epitome of a perfect child’: Family of teen who died on school trip to Hornby Island left looking for answers

  The family of 15-year-old Sara Manitoski is looking for answers after a Comox Valley student mysteriously died on a school trip to Hornby Island.

  Mar 21, 2017
• Comox Valley grade 11 student dies during Hornby Island field trip

  Students at a Comox Valley school are mourning the mysterious death of one of their classmates.

  Mar 17, 2017
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• B.C. man captures video of orcas attacking sea lions off Hornby Island

  Louis Jobidon was kayaking, as he often does around Hornby, when he noticed a commotion in the water a short distance away.

  Mar 18, 2015