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Salt Spring Island

Salt Spring Island:
The Land of Fairies

By John Kernaghan, Contributor

March 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment

British Columbia’s oldest working farm, founded by Irishman Henry Ruckle in 1872, has turned into something of a fairy land. Between a visionary immigrant farmer and an unknown planter of “fairy doors,” Salt Spring Island has liberal lashings of Irish magic, and that’s not counting a coastline that would put you in mind of Ireland’s rugged west. Henry Ruckle, who left Ireland … [Read more...] about Salt Spring Island:
The Land of Fairies

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