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How this edition’s features work and where its photographs come from.

View across Cowichan Bay toward a forested ridge, 2019
Across Cowichan Bay · 2019
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Photo credits

These credits apply wherever the photographs appear in this publication. Reuse is subject to the linked licences. No photographer endorsement is implied.

Kinsol Trestle curving across the forested Koksilah River valley, 2012

Vrsmith · Original photograph and source record · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.

Buildings and docks along the Cowichan Bay waterfront, 2011

Paratize · Original photograph and source record · CC BY 3.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.

View across Cowichan Bay toward a forested ridge, 2019

Ymblanter · Original photograph and source record · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.

Shawnigan Wharf Park and lake beyond a railway crossing, 2012

David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · Original photograph and source record · CC BY 2.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.

Cobble Hill village streets and buildings, 2009

Alasdair McLellan · Original photograph and source record · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.

Mill Bay Road beside Saanich Inlet, 2011

Larry LaRose · Original photograph and source record · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.

The Cowichan Valley Trail at Kinsol Trestle, 2020

David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · Original photograph and source record · CC BY 2.0. Resized and cropped responsively for display; no other alterations. Any adaptation of a CC BY-SA photo is offered under that same licence.