Bill Nash here...
I live and work here on this enchanted isle. I created SaltSpring-Island.com to give everybody who lives here or visits this magical place an opportunity to share their Salt Spring Stories with the world...
This Pacific island paradise is a flashback to a simpler time with its friendly small town '60's vibe and the incredible diversity of people and nature that you just don't find anywhere else... ... artists and artisans, photographers, retired CEO's, plumbers, pilots, journalists, actors, directors, ferry workers, bus drivers, musicians, I was raised in Pitt Meadows, B.C. Pitt Meadows back then was a vastly different place than it is today. Grampa Ben Crow had homesteaded both sides of the South Alouette River back in 1933. And my parents, Tom & Inez, had bought the southernmost acreage from him in 1944. But the thing I remember most about growing up on that little farm on Neaves Road was that I had the biggest back yard imagineable: There were run-ins with bears, cougars, and other assorted wildlife...
Our grandfather was a real Pitt Meadows pioneer. Here we are celebrating his last Christmas. From the left, Bill, Frank, Grandpa Ben, Jim, and Tommy. It was wonderful to be raised in the country but lots of other folks had the same idea and Pitt Meadows eventually became a suburb of Vancouver. I'd been looking around for greener pastures and, several years ago, I was lucky enough to discover Salt Spring Island... So far in life, I've been an organic farmer, a rock and roll singer (opening for Bryan Adams and Sweeney Todd, Doug & The Slugs, Trooper, Headpins, Loverboy...), 
(Listen to my rendition of the Beatles classic "Hey Jude" from my upcoming release "Bill Nash Sings The Beatles")
a construction worker, a social worker, and now I make my living writing this Web site about the place I love: Salt Spring Island.
Astrologically Speaking: I was born with The Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Venus in Aquarius, Mars in Scorpio, Aries Rising...
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