Mill Bay Market
About
Mill Bay Market
2720 Mill Bay Road Mill Bay BC
In cities, across the countryside, indoor and out, markets can be traced to ancient times and continue to draw people together. Locally we do not find the burgeoning, giant melting pots of trade, huxtering, and commerce of the old world markets with their exotic offerings -- woven blankets and magic carpets; chickens ready-for-the-pot or just their beaks; dangling ear rings and sacred gongs; and strange harvests from animal innards, deserts, forests and oceans. However, we can find shoppers, vendors, and wanderers gathering in the tradition every Thursday afternoon from May to September at the lower side of Mill Bay Shopping Centre. You might find a black soap containing charcoal; a pack of just-right-for-breakfast plain bran muffins or a gourmet brown sugar-cinnamon bun or cookies of date/coconut/aromatics in the Iraqi tradition;
a water-proof child’s jacket or hats with sport, style, and flair, each item individually produced by an individual craftsperson; a flower bush or pot of strawberries nurtured by the grower for you to harvest pleasure for a few years; houses of driftwood/pebbles/sand and beds of cedar shavings created for feathery or furry creatures; and most importantly locally grown foods and “special recipe” and “ethnic” preparations of pestos, jams, pickles, breads and more to sustain your life. Conversations can be tasty made of community fabric and some may tell of their 20 years of market selling and the original market stall sign that still accompanies them or another may exclaim on the basket from Africa used especially for their market forays. Music floats, and lifts us, too, on the air above the din of daily life, and visitors new to Canada may ask “...what is in that booth over there..? “ and “...why are all the people signing that paper..?” and all that makes up the market sustains your culture and is exotic to another.
Open / Operational
Resource Past Posters
Location
Address2720 Mill Bay Road
