OTTAWA -- During her three years with the federal government, Victoria Dark believed she’d likely become a career civil servant. “I thought if I left the government I would waste the opportunity of a lifetime. So, I wasn’t planning on leaving, ever,” said the 26-year-old. Then one day, on a whim, she decided to do a watercolour painting of her parents’ cottage; a creative gesture to honour their wedding anniversary. “And it actually turned out,” she laughed. Dark shared her work on Instagram to show her followers what she had created. “And then I got one friend askin...