Finnish dancer Maria Nurmela had often heard about the town of Sointula, on B.C.’s Malcolm Island, where Finnish miners fleeing horrific working conditions in nearby Nanaimo settled and attempted to ...

Sointula, founded by Finns with big ideas. Photo by Paul Hami. At the dawn of the 20th century, countless immigrants arrived in Canada. Some of them from Finland ended up working in Robert Dunsmuir's ...

Sue Ness in Sointula contacted me about seeing Eurasian collared doves in Sointula on Malcolm Island. Sointula is a lovely fishing village off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island. The village was ...

It was the prospect of stepping out of our lives and back to another era that brought two friends and me to Sointula, a small fishing village at the edge of British Columbia's remote Broughton ...

My wife and recently vacationed in Sointula, a scenic, small town on Malcolm Island. If you’ve not been, it’s located just across from the Northern Vancouver Island town of Port McNeil, a 25-minute ...

The remarkable story of a charismatic leader who founded the remote British Columbia community of Sointula more than a century ago is returning to the stage after a 10-year absence, albeit 7,500 ...

More than 7,400 homes and businesses on the North Island were without power Monday morning after a transmission line circuit failure. There were 15 outages in total, according to B.C. Hydro, which is ...