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Stunning 15.14 acre Gulf Island property. Includes 2,000 ft2 open concept 2-storey home with 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 covered decks & 1 uncovered deck off master bed, plus workshop, carport, guest cottage, barn & large open pasture area. Perfect for horse lovers!
Affordable farm property on Texada Island close to Gilles Bay and Shelter Point Park. It includes a well-built 2,000 ft2 two-storey home with open concept kitchen/living room that overlooks the acreage, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a walkout basement. The home has one bedroom on the main floor and 2 bedrooms and master bedroom above. The master bedroom is large and has its own uncovered deck. There are also 2 covered decks on the main floor. The doors are all solid wood and there is laminate flooring throughout the house. The house is tastefully finished with nothing that needs to be done.
There is also a guest cabin, 3-bay carport, 2-box stall barn, covered storage, raised garden beds, fruit trees and a green house and there are multiple water sources for the property. This is perfect for horse lovers, as it was developed as an equestrian property. The acreage is mostly cleared with fully fenced fields with lots of usable land. Book your appointment to view today!
5956 Central Road - Texada Island, BC
BC Ferries operates a ferry service on a daily schedule from Powell River across the Malaspina Strait to Blubber Bay on Texada Island.
Powell River is accessed by ferry from the Little River ferry terminal in Comox on Vancouver Island. Powell River can also be reached from Vancouver in the south (4 hours, 141 km/88 miles) by catching a ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale, driving from Langdale to Earls Cove on Highway 101 and catching another ferry from Earls Cove to Saltery Bay. Powell River is 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Saltery Bay on Highway 101.
Texada Island is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia. Its northern tip is located about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of the City of Powell River and west of the Sechelt Peninsula on the Sunshine Coast. A former mining and logging area, the island still has a few quarries and old logging roads. It is the largest of the Northern Gulf Islands at some 31 miles (50 km) in length and 6.2 miles (10 km) in width, with its length aligned along a northwest-southeast axis. The island is 116 square miles (300.45 km2) in land area and has a population of approximately 1,000 residents. The main settlements are Blubber Bay, Gillies Bay and Van Anda.
Visitors to Texada Island enjoy access to a full range of services and amenities including banking, laundry, grocery and liquor stores, golf and tennis, transient moorage at Sturt (Marble) Bay, post offices, shops, galleries and studios as well as two museums to mention just a few.
Visit the Texada Island website for information.
Recreation abounds on Texada with excellent hiking and mountain biking trails, over 250 species for the avid birdwatcher, 9-hole golf course, kayaking from Shingle Beach to historic Jedediah Island Marine Park, skim-boarding and swimming at Shelter Point beach and exploring the newly protected karsk caves near Davies Bay.
Try 4x4ing to Anderson Bay Provincial Park with tremendous mountain-high photo opportunities of Malaspina and Georgia Straits along the way. The outdoors can be enjoyed without fear of any major predators, as there are no bears, cougars, wolves or poisonous snakes on Texada.
If scuba diving is your idea of a great holiday, then Texada environs are dripping with life, boasting warm, high-visibility waters. Boaters will find unprotected anchorages in the many bays around the island. Limited protected guest moorage is available at the Sturt (Marble) Bay Boat Harbour in Van Anda, on the northeast coast of the island.
Boat launch facilities are located at Shelter Point Park and Sturt Bay Boat Harbour. There is a government dock with a tie-up float in Van Anda, close to the Texada Farmers Market.
Surviving middens and fish weirs show that First Nations people spent time on Texada long before Europeans discovered North America. These people did not have permanent settlements on the island, because an ancient legend says the island rose from the sea and will sink again one day. The Tla'amin name for Texada Island is Si'yi yen. Don Jose Navarez, a Spanish seaman, sighted and charted the island in 1791. Spanish explorers also named the small island just west from Texada (Lasqueti). While Spain did not have much interest in this area, Britain became a dominant force in the Pacific Northwest. At that time there was little activity along the coast, apart from fur trading, whaling and cutting a few spars for sailing ships. Blubber Bay, which is now the site of the BC Ferry terminal, was so named because it was used by whalers for the processing of their catches. Texada's modern history began in 1871, when iron ore was discovered on the northwest coast at Welcome Bay. That precipitated the boom of exploration on Texada.
Sometime after 1877 marble was found, then in 1880 gold was discovered, where Van Anda is now, and The Little Billie Mine began producing gold and copper. Logging has also been prevalent in this area during the late 1800s and 1900s. By 1898 Van Anda had become a boom town! People came from everywhere to live, work and spend their leisure time here. It boasted the only opera house north of San Francisco, had three hotels with saloons, a hospital, several stores and businesses and an illegal distillery flourished in Pocahontas Bay supplying liquor to the United States during prohibition. In 1900 the names of some of the Texada landmarks aptly described island activities at that time; Blubber Bay, Rumbottle Creek, Midas Street and the Bucket of Blood Saloon!
In 1910 the first of three serious fires completely destroyed the major buildings of Van Anda in only forty minutes. The optimism of the boom town led to rebuilding larger, more imposing structures, only to be destroyed by fire again in 1912. The third fire struck in 1917 leaving only Al Deighton's store which was saved by a bucket brigade. The building remains a fixture on the Van Anda waterfront today. Mining continued through the twentieth century and today there are still a number of working limestone quarries on the island.
Please see mapping section - all boundaries are approximate.
49°40'1.21"N and 124°24'52.24"W
$2,116.95 (2020)
RU Rural Residential (within ALR)
Qathet Regional District (formerly Powell River Regional District) Electoral Area 'D' Texada Island Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 395.
Additional zoning information can be found on the Qathet Regional District website.
Lot 1 (Reference Plan 655) District Lot 220 Texada Island District
PID 015-810-445
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