{"key":"8b513dbb10","origin":"osm","osm_id":"n8787244978","category":"Groceries","subcategory":"Grocery Store","community":"Port Desire","lat":48.8353729,"lon":-125.1397678,"verdict":"include","name":{"value":"Bamfield Mercantile & Marine","source":"enrichment"},"description":{"value":"Bamfield Mercantile & Marine is a historic general store on Bamfield's west boardwalk that has served the remote community since the 1920s, with goods still arriving mostly by boat. Run by Kevin and Marnie McAughtrie since 2015, it stocks fresh groceries, produce, deli sandwiches, ice cream, fishing tackle, and liquor alongside locally sourced artisan products. The store also operates a 25-foot landing craft offering water taxi and charter services throughout Barkley Sound.","source":"sonnet_4.6"},"website":{"value":"https://www.bamfieldmercantile.ca/","source":"enrichment"},"address":{"value":"81 Boardwalk Road, Bamfield, BC V0R 1B0","source":"enrichment"},"phone":{"value":"250-728-3351","source":"enrichment"},"email":{"value":"bamfieldmercantile@mybamfield.ca","source":"html"},"route_slugs":[],"centrally_administered":false,"bike_parking_detail":null,"raw_osm":{"name":"Bamfield Mercantile & Marine","shop":"general"},"enrichment_extras":{"reasoning":"The website is fully accessible and provides strong evidence for this active general store in Bamfield. The products page explicitly lists General Groceries, Produce/dairy/deli, Frozen Foods, Snacks, and Liquor categories, confirming basic groceries. The boat charters page mentions transporting 'mountain bikes' but this refers to the charter service, not store bike parking; no bike parking or water refill infrastructure is mentioned anywhere on the site. The store is located at 81 Boardwalk Road on the west (water-access-only) side of Bamfield Inlet, which is a notable access concern for road-arriving cyclists.","concerns":["The store is located on the west (boardwalk) side of Bamfield Inlet at 81 Boardwalk Road, which is a water-access-only area. Cyclists arriving via the Bamfield Road (east side) would need to take a water taxi across the inlet to reach this store — this is a significant access consideration for touring cyclists and should be noted in the directory listing.","OSM record has no address or phone; both are taken from the website only."],"recommended_status_reason":"Real, active general store with a functioning website, confirmed groceries, and a long operating history in a remote Vancouver Island community.","confirmed_open":true,"contact_confirmed":{"phone":null,"website":true,"address":null},"notes":"The boat charters page notes the 25' landing craft can transport 'mountain bikes' along with passengers and gear to/from the Broken Group Islands, Ucluelet, and Port Alberni — potentially useful logistics information for touring cyclists in the area."},"provenance":{"enrichment_run":"density","enrichment_model":"sonnet_4.6","verdict_source":"enrichment","category_source":"osm","category_correction_reason":null,"review_priority":false,"sidecars_applied":["subcategory","wow"],"subcategory_source":"osm_tag","subcategory_confidence":"high"},"required_criteria":{},"optional_amenities":{"Basic groceries":{"value":true,"detail":null,"source":"sonnet_4.6","date":"2026-07-18"}},"unmapped_criteria":{},"region":"Vancouver Island","ownership":"Buy BC (independent)","indigenous_role":[],"notability":2,"wow_evidence":"historic general store on Bamfield's west boardwalk that has served the remote community since the 1920s, with goods still arriving mostly by boat","tier":"info"}