From the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco to Nelson, British Columbia — today we explore American hippie counterculture north of the 49th parallel.

What if you took this cyclone of hippie spiritual thinkers and draft dodgers, free love and anti-war sentiment out of San Francisco? What if you transplanted a piece of it into an absolutely unpolarized, idyllic British Columbia town? What would all this look like almost six decades later? That’s the question we answer today. San Francisco journalist Breena Kerr went to Nelson to find the story.