The Uclectic at present is the beginning of a concept. 

Ucluelet - Nuu-Chah-Nulth word meaning "safe harbour",

Eclectic - 1) made up of what is selected from different sources.     2) noting or pertaining to works of architecture, decoration, landscaping, etc., produced by a certain person or during a certain period, that derive from a wide range of historic styles, the style in each instance often being chosen for its fancied appropriateness to local tradition, local geography, the purpose to be served, or the cultural background of the client.

The Uclectic has started its transformation with the temporary rebuild/restructure of the 'Taron Homestead' located at 1998 Peninsula Road, directly across from Ucluelet's town entrance sign. 

In April of 2009 Mike and Nicole Bray took possession of the pie shaped parcel of land with its delapedated building and began the process of bringing the small home back to life and readying it for business...but this was just a small step in a plan much larger.  The house was open for business by Easter Weekend, allowing Tula Clothing to spread open its wings again in its third location over the past 5 years.  This is where the tricky part began!

Step two of the process began just hours after the re-opening of Tula Clothing.  A site had been cleared during the first two weeks of recon. by local excavator expert Dave Edwards behind the old building to make way for a concept never undergone by a Canadian retailer before.  Two larger 40' shipping containers were already en-route from Vancouver to their new home in Ucluelet.  The containers, each 8'6" high and 8' wide are less than 10 years old and deemed unworthy of being shipped back out of Canada and therefore deemed useless cubes of steel with 1 sole purpose, to waste away in a parking lot for the next 100 years.  The concept...use them as instant retail space.  Okay, maybe not instant but definitely more in that league than a new build!!  The containers arrived on two large flatdeck trucks just days later and local masters of lifting and shifting, Elden and Elmer Arsenal were on hand to take on the stressing task of moving the two giant 10 000lb boxes of steel into place.

Once the shipping containers were in place, Bray was joined again by friend and Co-shop owner Derek Hale to tackle the process of converting the containers into an inviting, functional environment...and so the debauchery began.