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Unincorporated community in the Comox Valley between the City of Courtenay, Mount Washington, Dove Creek, and Black Creek near the east coast of Vancouver Island. It was named by soldiers returning to the Island after fighting in France for Canada in World War I. The borders are nebulous and often hotly debated by residents, but clearly include Merville Road, the Merville General Store, and the Merville Community Hall, likely at the northern end. The agricultural community has outlasted and may have supplanted both the older logging and milling community referred to as the Headquarters townsite (along the Tsolum River at the end of Headquarters Road), and the Grantham community near Tsolum Elementary School. The Merville General Store is best known for the good ol' hot caff' (coffee to the locals) and juicy burgers. It is also the best place to gas-up between Campbell River and Courtenay on the Old Island Highway. (It's always a few cents cheaper per litre than anywhere else, excepting Buckley Bay, of course.) You can often find smiling hicks sitting at the coffee bar at the "Merv'" as the locals refer to it. Yannick, Lyle & Izway to name a few. This laidback country place personifies island life. |
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