Daphne Bramham: Passage Islanders escape speculation tax after some 'scary moments'

If rustic appeals then Passage Island is idyllic, with no services — no water (not even wells), no roads, no internet, no mail delivery, no garbage collection, no post office, no fire station, no police, no ferries, and only electricity that you can generate for yourself.
It’s one of those odd little places of which British Columbia seems to have so many. It shares a postal code with West Vancouver, which was ground zero for massive housing speculation, and sits in the middle of Howe