Travel aboard the Frances Barkley ferry in Port Alberni, B.C., is being offered for free or by donation this December, with funds going towards local charities.
Starting Aug. 7, the ferry will depart Port Alberni at 9 a.m. for the three-and-half hour sailing to Bamfield, with a two-hour stopover in West Bamfield.
Small communities and First Nations along the Alberni Inlet and the west coast of Vancouver Island breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday after a Nanaimo-based company agreed to acquire . . .