Cortes Currents
1,486 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -Cortes Currents is a news platform that asks what's current in Cortes and the Discovery Islands. Web articles & radio podcasts: Cortes Island, Quadra Island, Discovery Islands, Campbell River: news, lifestyle, local politics, affordable housing, economy, food security, health, ferries, tourism, history, culture, environmental issues, sustainable forestry, oyster farming, the arts, First Nations, energy, climate change, overshoot
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Ka:'yu:'k't'h'/Che:k'tles7et'h' First Nations join SRD board
April 16, 2021 17:16 - 9 minutes - 22.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At its April 14th meeting, the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) Board. welcomed the first First Nation to the board. The Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k’tles7et’h’ First Nations (KCFN) was one of the five First Nations that signed the Maa‑nulth First Nations Treaty in 2011 and the only one whose lands are within the SRD. ( The other Maa-nulth Nations are members of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District.) One of the directions mentioned in the treaty was that Firs...
FOCI partners with HAKIA for sea star monitoring
April 15, 2021 17:16 - 6 minutes - 15.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) has become the Hakai Institute‘s first partner in a new citizen science sea star monitoring program. The Cortes Island Project As Helen Hall, Executive Director of FOCI explained, “”We just launched a really exciting joint project with the Hakai Institute. They are monitoring Sea Stars in the Discovery Islands and we can contribute from Cortes Island.” “Hakai is using a program called iNaturalist which allows you ere you can to ...
COVID update for Thursday, April 15
April 15, 2021 11:51 - 1 minute - 1.63 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - COVID update fror While the rest of BC reels under reports of COVID’s third wave, it still does not appear to more than touched North Vancouver Island. The number of active cases has risen slightly, to 37, as of late yesterday afternoon. Island Health does not report any school exposures north of Qualicum. According to statistics released yesterday,the number of active cases the Greater Campbell River are dropped to 4 during the epi-week ending on Saturday, ...
Sea Stars: wolves of the ocean floor
April 14, 2021 12:22 - 4 minutes - 11 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Kelly Fretwell from the Hakai Institute recently described sea stars as wolves of the ocean floor. Sea Stars prey on Oysters The topic came up when I mentioned that they prey upon the oysters in Gorge Harbour, on Cortes Island. Julia Rendall, President of the Bee Islets Growers Corporation,said they normally eat about a third of her crop. The bottom clusters are “all chewed, eaten.” She remembers the summer that Sea Star Wasting Disease reached the Gorge. ...
Sea Star Wasting Syndrome
April 13, 2021 12:44 - 4 minutes - 10.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents- The first of three interviews with Kelly Fretwell of the Hakai Institute: Sea star Wasting disease. Includes audio from the opening of the Hakai Institute video "Sunflower Sea Stars Now Critically Endangered"
Reviewing the scenic impact of logging in the Discovery Islands
April 11, 2021 17:06 - 8 minutes - 19 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The BC Government is currently reviewing the scenic impact of logging in the Outer Discovery Islands. They are determining the level of viewshed protection for scenic corridors important to the $50 million-a-year marine tourism industry, local residents, and recreational users. All of the crown lands on Cortes, Read, Maurelle, Raza, Stuart, and the Redonda Islands are being given new Visual Quality Objective designations. Photo credit: Working in the Woods by H...
Addition audio: Tanya Henck and Jim Foster interview
April 10, 2021 12:19 - 23 minutes - 34.2 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - additional audio from interview with Tanya Henck and Jim Foster. Photo credit: Domestic violence hurts by ghetto_guera29 via Flickr (CC BY Sa, 2.0 License)
Tanya Henck and Jim Foster give an update from the Women's Resource Centre
April 10, 2021 12:08 - 41 minutes - 57.8 MBDe Clarke / Cortes Currents - In March 2021 I had the opportunity to interview Tanya Henck and James Foster about the work they are both doing in support of women on Cortes Island. This article presents some highlights from that interview. (For a more complete story, listen to the radio version.) Tanya is the founder and coordinator of the Cortes Island Women's Resource Centre; readers/listeners may remember her from a previous interview in April of 2020. At that time, official acknowle...
Superior Tanker Shuttle Service
April 09, 2021 15:54 - 3 minutes - 8.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District is seeking a grant for a superior tanker shuttle service on Cortes Island. So I asked SRD Protective services Coordinator Shaun Koopman, what difference would that make? He explained that it would both help the fire department and, most likely, lower Cortes Island home insurance rates. Photo credit: A water tank on Hornby Island - courtesy Shaun Koopman, SRD
Sea Level Rise
April 09, 2021 15:03 - 1 minute - 4.52 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - SRD Protective services Coordinator Shaun Koopman gave an update on the progress of a grant to access the danger of sea level rise on Cortes and Quadra Islands. “We will find out if we get that around the end of May,” he said. Lidar data is a key element of flood mapping, and there isn’t any available for Cortes Island right now. Koopman explained, “So about $40,000 would be spent getting Lidar data for Cortes. Another $40,000 to $50,000 would be spent analyz...
32 active COVID cases in North Vancouver Island
April 09, 2021 12:22 - 1 minute - 4.19 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - While the number of active COVID cases on Vancouver Island has now reached 504, these are almost all in the South and Central Health Service Delivery Areas. Yesterday Island Health reported 32 active cases in North Vancouver Island. Their are no school closures or outbreaks reported in our area. The most geographically specific data available, week old Local Health Area statistics released by the BC Centre Disease Control on Wednesday April 7th, shows 12 cas...
The Big Three Exhibit at Wild Cortes
April 08, 2021 19:15 - 4 minutes - 9.46 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Museum’s Wild Cortes exhibit is reopening at Linnaea Farm on Earth day, Thursday, April 22nd, with ‘the Big Three.’ The big three: bears, cougars & wolves As Jane Newman, Managing Director of the Museum, explained, “There will be an exhibit opening there that’s called the Big Three and I am sure people have been reading about in our newsletter, Tideline, the Cortes Marketer etc. It’s basically about the three large predators on Cortes: bears,...
BC Ferries Virtual Meeting
April 08, 2021 14:37 - 3 minutes - 9.02 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - There were new revelations at BC Ferries virtual meeting about changes coming to the Campbell River - Quadra Island run. Two new Island Class ferries will take over this route in the Spring of 2022. They are powered by a electric/diesel combination, but could go fully electric in the next three to four years if more funding is made available to the program. While the official capacity of the two new hybrid e-ferries is 94 cars per hour, this calculation doe...
Folk U Reporters Roundtable Housing - 26 Mar, 2021
April 06, 2021 22:01 - 1 hour - 207 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie / Folk U - Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable on CKTZ: where we go in-depth on today’s big issues from a small community perspective with the journalists that are researching and writing about them from within these communities. Today’s topic is the unique nature of the Housing Crisis in rural/isolated and small communities. Cortes Island the home of CKTZ Cortes Community Radio. Wherever you are I invite you to take a moment to think about the land, beings, and peop...
Updated Cortes Island Wildfire Protection Plan
April 06, 2021 13:17 - 5 minutes - 13.3 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - Cortes Island's updated Community Wildfire Protection Plan will be completed mid-April. The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) will also be holding two virtual sessions with wildfire expert Bruce Blackwell on Tuesday April 13 and Wednesday April 14 from 7-8pm (both sessions will be the same). These sessions will be devoted to the Community Wildfire Protection Plan, the island's wildfire risk, and on ways that you can incorporate FireSmart principles on your p...
Cortes Museum virtual exhibit
April 05, 2021 19:10 - 3 minutes - 8.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Museum‘s virtual archives went online on March 30th. Managing Director Jane Newman explained. “It is quite a big feat for the Museum and it has been a long time coming. There have been two very significant grants from Library & Archives Canada. We’ve digitized over 4,000 of our photographs, records from the collection and they are all viewable for free.” Go to Cortes museum.com, look under Archives in the top menu and use the search engine. ...
Cortes Island's Community Resiliency Investment grant
April 05, 2021 16:56 - 1 minute - 4.2 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District was awarded a $65,000 Community Resiliency Investment grant for Cortes Island, so I asked SRD Protective services Coordinator Shaun Koopman what does Cortes Island get out of it? Part of the money will be will be used to pay for a report on “the current structural capacity for wildfire response on Cortes Island.” There is also funding for “fire entrapment avoidance and incident command system training” for the Cortes Island Fi...
Buildng up Cortes Island's Emergency Preparedness Systems
April 05, 2021 12:11 - 7 minutes - 17.7 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Current - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) is building up Cortes Island’s emergency preparedness systems and this requires money. They have already received a $65,000 Community Resiliency grant this year, for things like wood chipping, more intense training training for the Cortes Island Fire Department and hiring a consultant to help neighbourhoods prepare wildfire threat assessment reports.There is more coming. SRD Protective services Coordinator Shaun Koopman exp...
People with disabilities rally, block Vancouver street demanding end to below-poverty rates
April 03, 2021 16:43 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBDavid P Ball/ Vancouver Coop Radio - The provincial government's partial reversal of cuts to disability assistance top-ups didn't dampen the turnout at a rally this week demanding an end to rates they said keep people with disabilities far below the poverty line. Dozens of people took over the intersection of Howe and Dunsmuir streets, near a provincial government office, on Thursday afternoon, unfurling a giant "No Funds" novelty groceries receipt to show how difficult it is to make ends me...
73% of BC businesses are on government subsidies, survey says
April 03, 2021 16:01 - 10 minutes - 5.01 MBDarren Davidson/ Kootenay Co-op Radio - CJLY, 93.5fm Nelson BC - The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce has been in the middle of the region’s COVID storm for over 12 months. There’ve been some critical efforts by chambers throughout BC and Canada — helping business stay afloat, pay their staff, lobby governments to eliminate costs to business, and more than a few times, offer a shoulder to have a good cry on. Chamber of Commerce boss Tom Thomson stopped by Kootenay Co-op Radio's curre...
Bike Rack for Hague Lake
April 02, 2021 13:09 - 54 seconds - 2.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) has been working with BC Parks to install a bike rack at the Hague Lake beach access on Cortes Island. “The idea behind the rack that was is to try and encourage people to go by bike to the lake, rather than drive, and also because the parking lot gets very overcrowded. It’s more environmentally friendly too and if people want to cycle they now have a secure place to put their bike,” said Helen Hall, Executive Director of F...
Two species at risk on Cortes Island
April 02, 2021 12:06 - 2 minutes - 5.26 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) is asking Cortes residents to report any sightings of two species at risk on the Island. There has not been any record of the Western Toad on Cortes since 2015. “They were on the island but we haven't had any recent records and we don’t know if they are still here,” said Helen Hall, Executive Director of FOCI. “Western toads are really distinctive, they have a bumpy skin and a cream stripe down their backs. You can’t rea...
BC's largest immunization ever
April 01, 2021 15:38 - 3 minutes - 8.46 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to Dr. Richard Stanwick, Island Health’s chief medical officer, we are in the midst of “the largest and most complex immunization effort in the history of our province.” 756,080 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 87,351 of which are second doses. Vancouver Island crossed the 100,000 mark on March 26th. Close to 800 of these were on Cortes Island, where most of the island’s non ind...
Cortes Commons is poised for the next stage
March 31, 2021 17:48 - 9 minutes - 22.7 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - Thanks to a donation from the Island Coastal Economic Trust, or ICE T, the Cortes Commons is ready for the next stage of development. This 2.6 acre property in the heart of Mansons Landing was gifted to the organization now as Cortes Community Economic Development Association or CCEDA, two and a half years ago. As Colin Funk, a Director of the new organization, explained, CCEDA holds the land in trust for the community and Cortes Commons could be used for a...
Bringing High Speed internet to people's doorsteps
March 30, 2021 13:15 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Province of British Columbia will be bringing fast reliable internet to remote communities like Cortes Island, Quadra Island and Zeballos by the fall of 2021. >>> Fast reliable internet “Fast reliable internet is more important than ever. In fact we couldn’t be here today without it,” said Lisa Beare, BC’s Minister of Citizens’ Services. “Today I can tell you that the Connecting British Columbia program is approving more than $10.5 million in grants to im...
Cortes Island Cannabis bylaw
March 29, 2021 16:30 - 1 minute - 3.33 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District is preparing a bylaw for cannabis production and/or sale on Cortes Island. Although recreational cannabis was officially legalized by the federal government in 2018, there is no provision for this in Cortes Island’s existing bylaws. As Regional Director Noba Anderson explained, “This is a long tie coming. We’ve got zoning updates for cannabis production and sale in both areas C and D and this is just wanting to come into align...
Changes coming to BC Ferries' Campbell River - Quadra Island Run
March 29, 2021 14:32 - 1 minute - 4.19 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - BC Ferries will be holding a Virtual Community Meeting regarding upcoming changes to Campbell River - Quadra Island run from 6:00 - 7:30pm on Wednesday April 7 via Webex. You will find links to make a reservation on Cortes Radio.ca, Cortes Currents and the Tideline. https://www.bcferriesprojects.ca/islandclass/survey_tools/rt23rsvp There is also a link to an online survey: https://www.bcferriesprojects.ca/islandclass/survey_tools/rt23survey Two new Island...
More than a minimal risk, studies suggest
March 26, 2021 16:34 - 18 minutes - 42.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Three recent academic papers suggest that salmon farms pose more than a minimal risk to wild salmon migrating through the Discovery Islands. In response, the BC Salmon Farmers Association emailed Cortes Currents that these studies reported the presence of viruses, but did not show they were causing disease in farmed or wild salmon. Today’s program largely consists of interviews with Dr Andrew Bateman from the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF)’s Strategic Salm...
Virtual injunction meeting for three fish farms
March 25, 2021 14:20 - 7 minutes - 17.2 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The virtual injunction hearing, for three fish farms in the Discovery Islands, began yesterday. On December 17, 2020, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan announced that no new fish, of any size, can be introduced to the Discovery Islands. Mowi Canada West, Cermaq Canada, Grieg Seafood BC and an independent company called 622335 B.C. Ltd., owned by Saltstream Engineering, are seeking a judicial review to overturn the MInister’s decision. But the...
COVID retreating in North Vancouver Island
March 25, 2021 14:07 - 2 minutes - 5.89 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - While the number of active COVID cases in British Columbia has reached heights not seen since the beginning of this year, they continue to fall in North Vancouver Island. At the On March 1st, there were 71 active cases. Yesterday, Island Health reported 17. However the epi-Week report for the week ending on Saturday March 20th still shows 18 cases in the Greater Campbell River Health Area. There are two specific reports. On March 12th, the Quadra Island ...
Mayor Andy Adams Affidavit
March 24, 2021 21:55 - 2 minutes - 6.48 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - Campbell River Mayor Andy Adams released his affidavit supporting Grieg Seafood, MOWI Canada West and Cermaq Canada in their attempt to get an injunction to stop fish farms from being phased out of the Discovery Islands by June 2022. The virtual Supreme Court of British Columbia hearing starts today. In his affidavit, Adams pointed out that aquaculture has become the city’s largest economic driver and its loss would have a significant impact on the local ec...
Broom Bach in Mansons Landing Provincial Park
March 24, 2021 16:42 - 58 seconds - 2.25 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Saturday, March 13th, the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) carried out a Broom Bash at Mansons Landing Provincial Park. As Helen Hall, Executive Director of FOCI, explained, “The broom is encroaching into both the fragile coastal sand ecosystem and the forested part of the Spit, competing with and shading out native vegetation growing here. We carry out a broom bash every year to keep it under control and to allow the native plants to recover and thrive.” Th...
SRD seeks grant reducing wildfire threat to community buildings
March 23, 2021 16:29 - 3 minutes - 7.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) is seeking a Union of BC Municipalities grant to decrease the vulnerability of community buildings to wildfire. The associated staff report contains written endorsements from the village of Zeballos and South Quadra Island Island Fire Protection District. By the time SRD Protective services Coordinator Shaun Koopman explained his proposal to the Board, the Cortes Island Firefighting Association sent their endorsement a...
Garbage collection on Cortes Island
March 23, 2021 15:26 - 37 seconds - 1.41 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District awarded the contract for Cortes Island’s Garbage collection to VEM Contracting, which has held this contract for more than a decade. Four companies were asked to submit quotes for a 3-year contract, with a potential 2-year extension, if agreed upon by both parties. VEM Contracting was the only company that responded and the SRD Board approved their contract at their March 10, 2021, board meeting.
Public Hearing for Gowland Harbour Views Development
March 22, 2021 23:53 - 5 minutes - 12 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The public zoning meeting for the Gowland Harbour Views development, on Quadra Island, could be on hold until next August or September - assuming the pandemic is under control by then. This project was originally brought to the Strathcona Regional District in the summer of 2010 and, over the years, has undergone a number of changes to address issues raised by Quadra Island Regional Director Jim Abram. Land owner and applicant, Rick Schellinck. wants to develo...
Memories of Christmas past
March 22, 2021 14:55 - 1 hour - 273 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie. Folk U - Memories of Christmas Past. December 18th and 25th. Today’s show is in collaboration with Jane Newman and the Cortes Island Museum and Archives. I am already anticipating when we will tell tales of Christmas 2020 as one of our memories of Christmas past. The Museum and Archives are working to archive and memorialize the Pandemic of 2020. Jane Newman reads a story from Gilean Douglas written in her cabin in the Caribou Country about the unexpected pleasu...
Powell River's well being survey
March 21, 2021 20:00 - 1 minute - 3.26 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The City of Powell River, qathet Regional District and Tla’amin Nation, along with Lift Community Services and First Credit Union, have begun work on Phase I of the Regional Poverty Reduction Strategy. This includes a community well being survey, which will be conducted between March 15 and April 15, 2021. The online survey is accessible through Participate Powell River. A 2019 report concluded that one in four children and youth in Powell River and one in s...
ForestMarch2021 for Old Growth Forests
March 21, 2021 18:03 - 1 minute - 4.42 MBRoy L Hales /Cortes Currents - Thousands of people in communities across the province took to the streets in ForestMarch 2021 on Friday. The largest Vancouver Island march was in Victoria, where an about 250 people gathered in Centennial Square. There was some pushback. What was meant to be a healing ceremony in front of the Ministry of Forestry offices in Port McNeill turned into arguments between environmentalists and industry supporters. Quadra Island residents Geraldine Kenny and R...
Vaccinations throughout Greater Campbell River and Powell River
March 21, 2021 15:57 - 2 minutes - 4.94 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Vaccinations are being carried out throughout the Greater Campbell River Health Area and Powell River. Call centres are standing by to book appointments from 7 AM to 7 PM, 7 days a week. The Campbell River location has been switched to a covered vaccination clinic set up at the Campbell River hospital. People in the following age groups can book their appointments at 1-833-348-4787. On Monday, March 22nd, the age limit drops to 78+ for non-indigenous peopl...
Creating compass for 2021
March 19, 2021 19:53 - 1 hour - 272 MBCreating compass for 2021 by Cortes Currents (https://cortescurrents.ca/)
Vigilante justice in Campell River
March 19, 2021 16:15 - 1 minute - 3.18 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - An incident of vigilante justice has sent one Campbell River man to the hospital and led to four arrests. When the Campbell River RCMP responded to a call for assistance, in the 100 Block of Thulin St, they found four men leaving a home with belongings they claimed were theirs. The 40-year-old occupant of the home was found badly beaten inside. The four men were arrested for Assault Causing Bodily Harm and subsequently released pending a later court date. ...
whole community COVID-19 immunization for Cortes Island
March 18, 2021 22:32 - 2.41 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The whole community COVID-19 immunization for Cortes Island will be at Gorge Hall on March 25th, 26th and possibly the 27th. The entire adult population of the Cortes is eligible to receive free vaccinations. A vaccination appointment for 9 AM on the Thursday, March 25th, has already been booked. At this point, it is not known which vaccine will be used. Public health nurses, nurses from Cortes Medical Clinic and a nurse from the Klahoose Health Centre will ...
Greater Campbell River COVID update for March 18
March 18, 2021 14:11 - 3 minutes - 9.12 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The number of active COVID 19 cases is falling across North Vancouver Island. Island Health reported 33 yesterday, less than half of what there were two weeks ago. There are currently no outbreaks listed at any schools, care homes or restaurants anywhere from the Comox Valley to the northern tip of Vancouver Island. More localized statistics from the BC Centre for Disease Control show that the recent surge in North Vancouver Island numbers started in the Comox ...
Cleaning up shellfish growing areas on Cortes and East Pendrell Islands
March 17, 2021 19:50 - 8 minutes - 18.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is cleaning up some of the shellfish growing areas in our area. Erik Lyon, of Rising Tide Shellfish, believes the clean-ups may be connected to the fact aquaculture licenses in this area will come up for renewal in 2025 DFO has not yet returned Cortes Currents initial query, but Lyon is working on extensive clean-ups on Cortes and East Redonda Islands. Clean-up in Pendrell Sound After 60 years, the shellfish industry in Pend...
The Social Dilemma
March 16, 2021 22:54 - 1 hour - 274 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - The last year has transformed the way we work, play, learn, and interact by bringing more and more of our lives online. Cortes Island's clinical therapist and our resident brain "professor" Hayley Newell discusses social media addiction, the new Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma," our brains on social media, and what we are reaching for when we reach for our devices.
The Islands Trust Model of local governance
March 16, 2021 13:15 - 1 hour - 274 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Today’s Folk U show is Lessons on Governance, Ecology and Protecting Rural Character: What Cortes can learn from the Islands Trust. The Islands Trust is a special purpose government entrusted with a mandate to preserve and protect over 450 islands and surrounding waters in the Salish Sea. Known as the Islands Trust Area, the region comprises the Southern Gulf Islands, Howe Sound, and Denman & Hornby Islands. In 1974, the Government of British Columbia ackn...
The Cortes Island Fore Department's new volunteers
March 16, 2021 00:41 - 7 minutes - 16.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Orientation for the Cortes Island Fire Department’s new volunteers began last month. Chief Mac Diver explains, “We had eight people come to that. Of those eight we’ve had four continue through as recruits, which is a really nice group to allow us to maintain social distancing in our training quarters.” They have to go through another two training days before becoming “rookies” and are given pagers to alert them when there are call-outs. After that, they w...
March 10 Aquaculture Industry presentation to SRD Board
March 13, 2021 17:53 - 30 minutes - 70.4 MBThis is the unedited audio from the aquaculture presentation to the SRD Board made by John Paul Fraser, Executive Director of the BC Salmon Farmer’s Association, and Dean Dobrinsky, from MOWI Canada West on March 10, 2021.
Love Stories with the Cortes Museum
March 12, 2021 23:38 - 1 hour - 273 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Love is in the air…. Jane Newman from Cortes Island Museum and Archives joins Folk U host Manda Aufochs Gillespie with love stories from the archives, includes guest readers and story tellers. In this episode stories include: – James Nixon and wife Margaret from Twin Islands sourced from Jeanette Taylors new book, Twin Islands, History and Legacy on the BC Coast– Mead, Honeymoons and Love from one of the issues of The Howling Wolf publication from Cortes ...
Secret Societies
March 12, 2021 15:27 - 1 hour - 271 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Secret societies were relatively common in the tribal world that Europeans encountered and documented, including the Northwest Coast. They embodied some of the most awe-inspiring events in the cultures of traditional societies with mystifying public displays of magic and occult powers. as well as profane powers. Masked spirits appeared and demonstrated their powers as well. The feasts held for initiates were the most important and lavish events for many fa...