Channel Rock is an 140 acre forest preserve with nearly a kilometer of south and west facing shoreline. Channel Rock is located on Cortes Island, BC within Klahoose First Nation traditional territory.

Channel Rock is the old homestead of Gilean Douglas, who was born in 1900 and lived to be 93. She wrote seven poetry books and two memoirs, Silence is My Homeland and The Protected Place. The Protected Place is about her life on her 140-acre homestead on Cortes Island, where she was employed as an Environment Canada weather observer and a Search and Rescue agent. For the last 40 years of her life she lived at Channel Rock where she wrote, gardened and worked for many community organizations. It now is private property, used as an educational retreat centre. It is also used as an education center in the summer and fall months for MBA students (Sustainable Business) of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Channel Rock is on the west side of Cortes, a few kilometers by water from the ferry landing at Whaletown. From our beaches you look to the mountains of Vancouver Island; from the bluffs you can see the snowy peaks of the mainland Coast Range.