Welcome!
Campbell River is a beautiful area for a boater. I would echo the advice you have received so far.
I have been a pleasure boater around your area on and off for nearly 50 years, with my boating ranging from live aboard through weekend social and guest on friend’s boats.
Take your time. You are in a perfect area to walk the docks and chat with owners. Most of us can’t resist dropping whatever makes us look busy to talk about our boats, other boats, and boating life. Probably even show off our boat to someone truly interested. Your stated range of interests is still too wide to zero in on a specific size or style of boat.
Slow down your speed range! 4 of the 5 boats I have owned were slow, low powered, rugged displacement boats. The 5th was a twin engine planing hull, and the only one I regret buying. 8 knots would be my maximum, not my minimum speed. I spent a lot of time on a friend’s twin 210hp 41’ planing boat, usually based in CR in the summer. For the first year or two he cruised at 14 kts or so, and was constantly on pins and needles as the slightest bit of flotsam was potential disaster, it would literally suck driftwood you had avoided under the side of the hull into the prop. Remember when you admire all that water rushing out the stern in the wash, it had to rush into the prop from ahead too. He constantly fretted about fuel range and while he was anything but poor the cost was shocking. For the next 15+ years on the same boat he cruised at 8 or 9 knots, relaxed and enjoyed the journey, and refueled when it was conveniently available.
There are life circumstances, and geographical areas where speed is unquestionably a good or even essential thing, but your goals and geography don’t sound like it’s a necessity.
My comfort zone is a rugged, low powered single Diesel with a propeller deep down protected by a long keel.
Take your time and enjoy the ride, both in acquiring, and using your boat. You are dead center in a boating geography that is the envy of most of us!
I was trying to be brief, my mistake.
I did my decades in the slow mode, and now I enjoy this speedier boat probably employing it in ways the OP seems to want. While mine is too small for his needs, and Mainships are thin on that coast, a 34 Pilot might appeal and with its low silhouette could be shipped across country relatively cheaply. 
