Gibsons

Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,758 in southwestern <a href="/facts/British_Columbia/Ty3e3g1Q">British Columbia</a>, Canada on the <a href="/facts/Sunshine_Coast_(British_Columbia)/kQSydbyQ">Sunshine Coast</a>, where the southwest bank of <a href="/facts/Howe_Sound/4fuFqDI6">Howe Sound</a> meets the <a href="/facts/Strait_of_Georgia/kv2Htc3D">Strait of Georgia</a>.
During its early history as a European-descended settlement, the town was a local centre for <a href="/facts/Forestry/puvod5MV">forestry</a> and <a href="/facts/Commercial_fishing/8XF3oLTc">commercial fishing</a>. However, changing economics and resource availability have led Gibsons to increasingly become a bedroom community to workers in <a href="/facts/Greater_Vancouver/kSQT5CoY">Greater Vancouver</a> (especially <a href="/facts/Remote_work/yDcwVn1F">remote or hybrid workers</a>). Due to its location in the <a href="/facts/Pacific_Temperate_Rainforests/kwCn9BGe">Pacific Coastal Rainforest</a>, adjacent the <a href="/facts/Salish_Sea/aXVfhTyG">Salish Sea</a> and the <a href="/facts/Coast_Mountains/8c3z8hol">Coast Mountains</a>, and its position as gateway to the rest of the Sunshine Coast, Gibsons is a regional <a href="/facts/Tourist_attraction/MVHeCkMd">tourist destination</a>.
In 2009, the International Awards for Liveable Communities (LivCom) named Gibsons the most liveable community in the world with a population under 20,000.
Gibsons is perhaps best known in Canada as the setting of the popular and long-running <a href="/facts/CBC_Television/K8VcSAdJ">CBC Television</a> series <a href="/facts/The_Beachcombers/b9Cg3fot">The Beachcombers</a>, which aired from 1972 to 1990. The storefront "<a href="/facts/Molly%2527s_Reach/Wb6yJRaq">Molly's Reach</a>" (a former cafe now up for lease as of 2023), the restored tug <a href="/facts/Persephone_(tugboat)/F4w2l5QJ">Persephone</a>, and a display about the series at the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives are popular attractions. Other films that have used Gibsons as a location include <a href="/facts/Charlie_St._Cloud_(film)/n3Iowaso">Charlie St. Cloud</a> (2010), starring <a href="/facts/Kim_Basinger/LyXo8qPP">Kim Basinger</a> and <a href="/facts/Zac_Efron/LW3n4Ma1">Zac Efron</a> (as a stand-in for <a href="/facts/Marblehead%2c_Massachusetts/AXSKQBbM">Marblehead, Massachusetts</a>); and <a href="/facts/Needful_Things_(film)/SIo4y5VH">Needful Things</a> (1993), starring <a href="/facts/Max_von_Sydow/zPkK466a">Max von Sydow</a> and <a href="/facts/Ed_Harris/ur4hVsbs">Ed Harris</a>.
Gibsons, like the remainder of the Sunshine Coast, is inaccessible by road directly from the rest of the lower mainland, and is primarily accessed by a <a href="/facts/BC_Ferries/IsW3061M">BC Ferries</a> ferry from Horseshoe Bay in <a href="/facts/West_Vancouver/6AQGd5Qv">West Vancouver</a>.

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