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A PROPER INTRODUCTION TO THE SUNSHINE COAST Learning about the land via high-tech museum experiences and high-flying float plane tours. By Alyssa Hirose uckled in the passenger's seat, I can see one of Josh Ramsay's Converse shoes waving in the air as he leans across the windshield. He's outside, spraying the glass with Pledge. "For polishing furniture—and planes!" he says with a grin. Ramsay is the owner of Sunshine Coast Air, and he's splayed across the tiny float plane we're taking up the Sechelt Inlet. His easygoing nature is very much repre- sentative of coast folks: there's a laid-back vibe here that hits the second you step off the ferry from Horseshoe Bay. Rolling ocean waves and impossibly tall evergreen trees paint a picture of an eternally serene—and largely people-less—place. But, like much of Canada's landscape, it's not quite what it seems. The Sechelt float plane base is just a four-minute drive north from the tems swiya Museum, which was our first stop on the coast. Let's rewind a bit. This Shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation museum was the perfect introduction to the land—after all, isn't it customar y to start at the beginning? The doors of tems swiya open to reveal a hallway full of handwoven cedar root basket displays, and the main room contains artifacts like stone spears and arrowheads, plus two bricks preserved from a residen- tial school that was demolished in 1975. But among the timeworn items on display, there's also an exhibit that's jarringly futuristic: a digital facial reconstruction of four B U P A N D AWAY Th e v i ew fro m th e p a s s e n g e r 's s e at of a S u n s h in e C o a st A ir fl o at p l a n e . 72 BCBUSINESS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 NOUN PROJECT/STÉPHANIE RUSCH; ALYSSA HIROSE FOO D + TR AVE L S U N S H I N E COAST