End the year with us at Sooke Harbour House on a sweet note with wonderful desserts from our Pastry Chef extraordinaire Matthias Conradi, share the evening with friends in our cozy Garden Room to the sound of dancing music…The evening starts at 10:00 pm. Music, sweets,bubbly sparkling wine, party favours, $35.00 per person. We still have guest rooms available if you want to be there for the first day of 2012! After a gourmet breakfast...

    Raised amongst the temperate rain forests, mountains and endless shorelines of Vancouver Island.  Christine Stufano Simpson has always been deeply moved by nature’s immense beauty.                  Since her adolescence she has attempted to express this wellspring of sinspiration through photography, painting, and mixed media.  A self taught painter, she prefers to work primarily with...

  I am a jewellery designer, glass bead artist, and silversmith. The work of creating a piece of jewellery is extremely engaging and stimulating. Making jewellery provides me with the opportunity to play with colours and textures, and to express myself as I experiment with the age-old fascination of personal ornamentation. It is always my intention that the person who wears my jewellery will be positively affected.  The history of glass...

Monthly Meeting at Pacific Forestry Centre Thursday, September 1, 2011, 7pm presents UNUSUAL MUSHROOMS I HAVE EATEN by Sinclair Philip. Sinclair and Frederique Philip are the owners of Sooke Harbour House, a luxury hotel on the edge of the Pacific Ocean known for its fine dining. Sinclair has always been passionate about local food. He is now very regularly walking the forest to discover everything about mushrooms. He has a large collection of...

Patty Patching moved to this area from the prairies to do her Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of Victoria.   Afterwards she continued her study of Art by becoming a Registered Art Therapist.   She paints because it feels good!  In this series of paintings Patty took her inspiration from the flow of life so visible on the West Coast…the ebb and flood of tides, lush vegetation, a  nd thirst quenching rainfalls.   Being...