Meet our Saltpring Island getaway winner!
“I never win anything!”
That’s what Karen Davies told Promotions Coordinator Jane Nahirny when the Victoria resident learned she’d won our Saltspring getaway prize package. Thanks to her newfound good luck, Davies will get to meet artist and illustrator Nick Bantock during her upcoming getaway to the southern Gulf Island.
Known worldwide for his Griffin & Sabine books, Bantock collaborated with Nahirny to produce “Nick Bantock’s Saltspring” for British Columbia Magazine’s Spring 2009 issue. You can read the whole article here, and view the original art Bantock created for the story in our online photo gallery.
Davies and her husband will enjoy a one-night stay at the Harbour House Hotel overlooking Ganges Harbour, and will meet the artist for a personal tour of Bantock’s Saltspring gallery, the Forgetting Room. And, no doubt, they’ll devise some enjoyable ways to spend the $200 in Saltspring currency that was part of their prize. Perhaps a few treasures at the famous Saturday market in Ganges.
For Davies and her husband, the win was sweet for another reason: they’re both celebrating their 50th birthdays this year. How appropriate, as we at British Columbia Magazine mark the publication’s 50th anniversary this year as well.
Congratulations to our winner!