Isle of the Arts:
Yellow Flags are Artisan Studios!
Gabriola is home to one of the highest concentrations of artists per capita in Canada!
Our Gabriola Arts Council invites you to join in the fun with 3 annual events: The Isle of the Arts Festival, Cultivate Festival, and the Thanksgiving Studio Tour.
Visit Yellow Flags (these are local studios!) while touring the island and explore all local arts and culture businesses using the directory below.
Index codes correspond with our visitor map to help you locate these unique experiences.
Pick yours up FREE at our Gabriola Island Visitor Centre.
Coats Marsh Regional Park
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From the Regional District of Nanaimo: 'In 2008, a long-time Gabriola landowner used the federal eco-gift tax program to help The Nature Trust of BC and the RDN acquire and protect 44 ha of environmentally sensitive wetlands and forest. Coats Marsh Regional Park is the first protected wetland on Gabriola, an under-represented category in the Sensitive Ecosystem Inventory for the southern Gulf Islands which only have 1.7 per cent of their land base in wetlands. The balance of the new regional park contains second-growth Douglas-fir forest that will now be able to mature to old growth status in tandem with the woods of the large 707 Community Park next door. A rough trail network within the property lets you explore the sensitive habitat.'