Community voices are at the heart of Quadra Island Futures. Alongside a community-wide survey and in-depth interviews, two facilitated workshops brought residents, business owners, service providers, and community leaders together to talk face-to-face about Quadra’s values, strengths, challenges, and priorities for the future.
This page shares how those workshops were designed, what we heard, and how participants’ ideas are shaping the Economic Diversification Roadmap.

To ground this project in local experience, we combined three main types of community input:
Community survey: An island-wide survey that gathered perspectives on values, housing and affordability, gaps and opportunities, local services, tourism, and economic diversification.
Workshops: Two interactive sessions, held on June 3 and October 4, 2025, where participants worked in small groups to explore community values, map strengths and challenges, and turn ideas into action steps.
Interviews: One-on-one and small-group conversations with key knowledge holders to deepen our understanding of local context, history, and emerging opportunities.
This page focuses on what happened in the June 3 and October 4 workshops.