Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.

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Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.

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INFORMATION

IS OUR CURRENCY

Over the years we have amassed a wide variety of information on an array of topics. This information can be used to inform decision making, restoration planning, student reports and lesson plans.

Dave Ingram Photography

Library

Blue Carbon

climate change, eelgrass, kelp, photosynthesis, salt marsh

Sensitive Habitats

eco assets, estuaries, flood plains, green shores, Important Bird Area, intertidal areas, Kómoks Estuary, native plants, off-channel habitat, Puntledge River, restoration, riparian habitat, rivers/streams, seasons, tides, wetlands

History

Courtenay River history, Field Sawmill history, fish traps, shell middens, Simms Park photos

Critters

bees, dinosaurs, forage fish, geese, herring, Important Bird Area, invertebrates, newts, salmon, wildlife information sheets

Norma Morton Conservation Library

Stephen Hume: Archeology student publishes paper on ancient, industrial-scale First Nations fishery

England’s monarchs were sacrificing to Woden and persecuting Christian missionaries when First Nations managed a vast, highly-productive, industrial-scale fish harvesting complex in the estuary of the Courtenay River.
At first, the elaborate arrangement of 300 ingenious traps on the sandy flats of the river mouth harvested herring, which still mass to spawn off the east coast of Vancouver Island every March.
But 700 years ago, perhaps in response to climate change, the technology was altered to exploit pink, chum, coho, chinook and possibly sockeye salmon.

The K’ómoks Estuary- A cultural & archaeological treasure

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This video was produced and prepared through the Comox Valley National Historic Site Committee, as a descriptive information piece to go along with the submission to the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to respect, honor and give Historic Site recognition to the Ancient Wood Stake Fish Trap System studied by Community Archaeologist Nancy Greene and Geologist David McGee in the K’ómoks Estuary.