Northern Vancouver Island Highway Sign Originally uploaded by TFM I’m back from ten days of driving and camping around northern BC with my family. A few observations and points of note: Safeway in Smithers has free wifi. It provided useful when my celphone died and I was able to Skype from the parking lot. The [...]
Update: In the comments, Ed gives the links to the government of Canada’s scans of the Canadian National Topographic Series maps. The links allow downloads of the maps sheets at 1:250 and 1:50 scales. Thanks Ed! ‘Free Printable Topo Maps‘ offers topographical maps of Canada and the United States for, believe it or not, printing. [...]
Shell has suspended plans to explore for coal-bed methane in the environmentally and culturally sensitive Klappan region of northwestern British Columbia for the rest of 2008.
The Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations claim Stanley Park as part of their traditional territories. Yet, for generations, the totem poles in the park have been from communities in other parts of British Columbia. Now, local First Nations have rectified that situation and erected their own gateways in Stanley Park. The Vancouver Sun covers [...]
Mark Hume has a terrific article in the Globe and Mail (or here) about the politics surrounding aboriginal involvement in the environmental movement in BC. For example: One of the ironies in Clayoquot Sound is that the native company now fighting environmentalists was saved from financial collapse two years ago by Ecotrust Canada – a [...]
I tend to associate the issues surrounding unacknowledged tribes with the United States, but the Sinixt of British Columbia’s Kootenay region are making news here as an aboriginal group without legal standing. The Sinixt have filed a land claim with Canada and British Columbia (Cbc.ca). The history of their disenfranchisement is detailed in theTyee.ca. As [...]
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