Folklife Village, Gabriola Island, B.C.

Don't expect to find fast food restaurants or big box stores when you go to Gabriola.  The Island does have several good restaurants and an interesting town centre on North Road a few minutes uphill from the ferry terminal.
The province of British Columbia built a pavilion to represent the province's native and settler cultures to the world for Expo '86 held in Vancouver, B.C.  After Expo was finished, the pavilion was sold, dismantled and put on barges and stored.
A couple of years later, the Gabriola Island Trustees were presented with a plan and drawings to move and once again set up the village as a commercial center on Gabriola Island.  It took about two years to re-construct the village and today it's extensive post and beam structure is perfect for the Folklife Village Centre.  The grocery store, drug store, real estate office, library, the Old Crow Cafe, and several other smaller shops can be found here.