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The curious case of West Van’s whalebone hash pipe gavel BRENT RICHTER
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It’s probably the most curious relic in West Vancouver’s archives, made only curiouser by the bizarre trajectory it’s taken to get there.
A whale’s tooth, carved into a gavel almost 100 years ago and used by the district’s reeve to chair council meetings, disappeared from the chambers for almost five decades, and has now, almost as mysteriously, reappeared. On Christmas Eve 1925, Duchess Avenue resident Ewart Long gifted the gavel to the municipality after he’d heard council was in need of a new one. “This, if properly used, will effectively and promptly settle any subject which may be out of hand or order,” Long wrote in his accompanying letter to council. The story is best told, though, from its beginning. Sometime in 1906 or 1907 (Long couldn’t remember which) a whale carcass washed ashore in Vancouver Continued on page 18
TAKE THE PLUNGE Deep Cove Kayak general manager Mike Darbyshire is feeling the chill as his daughter Kanami (8) and son Kane (6) hug mom Karly (the Penguin) as they acclimatize for the first New Year’s Day Penguin Plunge at Deep Cove in two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full story at nsnews.com. PAUL MCGRATH/ NSN
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North Shore Rescue has entered a new era, having performed their first ever hoist of a lost and injured snowboarder from a helicopter after darkness. The team spent years lobbying
Emergency Management B.C. for permission to use Talon Helicopter’s winch system after dark, only to be told no. After going public with their frustrations in October, the province relented. On Thursday night, North Shore Rescue notched their first confirmed life saved using the night hoist – a Burnaby man in his
30s who had ducked the boundary rope at Cypress Mountain Resort and then fallen about 3.5 metres near Strachan Creek, injuring his back. “I’m not sure how he managed to get a cell signal where he was – it’s almost unheard of,” said Mike Danks, North Shore Rescue team leader.
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Here are the top North Shore stories of 2022 BRENT RICHTER
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If you check your calendar or the date at the top of this page, you’ll see 2022 is nearly at an end.
You’ll be forgiven if it all seems to have gone by in a bit of a blur. As always, the newsroom staff have compiled a year in review to help jog your memory about some of the things that stood out in the last 12 months. Don’t worry. This won’t be on the test. Health and COVID-19 Make no mistake – the coronavirus is sticking around. But 2022 was the year that it stopped being the undercurrent to all things in daily life. Despite surges of the Omicron variant in both the winter and summer, almost all public health restrictions related to the pandemic were walked back. Updates from the province and Dr. Bonnie Henry became fewer and farther between, and stories about the illness and its impact on society waned from their prominence in the headlines. We reported on desperate short-staffing at Lions Gate Hospital and the difficulty in getting primary patient care as family doctors and nurses faced total burnout. This was exacerbated by other respiratory illnesses like influenza and RSV coming roaring back. Mores positive news, however, was the opening of a new 12-bed high acuity unit at the hospital. War in Ukraine When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, North Shore residents stepped up to offer what they could. We reported on local families finding room for incoming refugees and rallying to raise money and supplies to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis developing, including a 200-bed field hospital found in storage by a local firefighter. Truth and Reconciliation Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Elder and Catholic Church Deacon Rennie Nahanee sat near
Tsleil-Waututh Nation members wear orange shirts were to honour residential school survivors and victims Sept. 30, 2022, during the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. NICK LABA / NSN
Hollyburn Sailing Club communications officer Mike Bretner surveys damage to the clubhouse from the Jan. 7, 2022, windstorm. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN Pope Francis as the Pontiff delivered his apology for the church’s role in residential schools. Reaction from residential school survivors was mixed, with some saying the apology was “too little too late.”
The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) forged ahead with ambitious plans for Senakw, a 6,000-unit rental housing project on 4.7 hectares of land belonging to the nation in Kitsilano. The project is partly
financed by a $1.4 billion loan from the federal government. To mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Tsleil-Waututh survivors of the St. Paul’s Indian Residential School and their descendants
marched from their reserve lands to the former site of the school. The Squamish Nation launched its own independent census of its citizens. Both North Shore First Nations welcomed the province’s announcement that students would need four credits from Indigenous-focused courses before graduating, which local Indigenous educators expressed hope would lead to deeper understanding about the breadth of different cultures that fall under the term “Indigenous.” The reconciliation movement suffered a setback in November though, as both the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh’s leadership denounced West Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager’s decision to no longer deliver spoken land acknowledgements at the start of council meetings. Municipal election results In October, North Shore voters elected three new councils for a four-year term. Sager won by a landslide and took over as mayor of West Vancouver with an informal slate of council allies that more than make up the majority of council. Eight-term council member Bill Soprovich, finished two positions back from his usual seat on council. City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan retained her seat, as did every council incumbent who ran, leaving previous council’s progressive/ urbanist mandate intact. Coun. Shervin Shahriari became the first Iranian-Canadian elected in B.C. And the balance of power at District of North Vancouver council stayed much the same with Mayor Mike Little narrowly winning his re-election bid, along with all five council incumbents. Voter turnout across the North Shore was a paltry 26.8 per cent.
Environment The year began with a rough reminder that climate change sucks. King tides and Continued on page 22
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Sam Ghassemi, 23, shows a photograph of his Brazilian fiancée Nathalia Sampaio, 22. With over two million applicants in queue, immigration lawyers say the Canadian government has a significant problem on its hands. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN
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Couple faces long wait for visitor visa to Canada NICK LABA
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After spending four months in Brazil last year, Sam Ghassemi fell in love. Following subsequent visits in Spain and France, Ghassemi wanted to bring his fiancée home to visit Canada.
But unlike those other countries, visiting here requires a visa. So Ghassemi, 23, applied for a Couples like visitor visa for this one are Nathalia Sampaio, caught in 22, in September. At first, the applithe middle cation processing without time was listed at getting the 67 days. But earlier recourse or in December, the the decision wait time spiked to over 477 days. that they After the initial need. estimate, Ghassemi IMMIGRATION bought a plane LAWYER ticket for Sampaio ZOOL SULEMAN for late January 2023. “And literally a week later, I looked at the processing times and it’s 477 days,” he said. “And that’s just to visit here. I just find that absolutely crazy.” Originally, the couple considered applying for a spousal sponsorship, but the wait times for that were a year or more, Ghassemi said. Seeking advice, Ghassemi was told Sampaio could apply for a student visa. But those cost $500, with program costs running into the thousands, depending on what she would enrol in.
Last week, Ghassemi was relieved to see the processing time had fallen to 188 days, which is still over six months away. With over two million immigration applications in the queue right now, immigration lawyer Zool Suleman said it’s a severe problem that the government is well aware of. “Couples like this one are caught in the middle without getting the recourse or the decision that they need,” he said. “Everyone is very frustrated, but there is no quick answer.” Over the past decade, Canada’s immigration system has moved away from any form of human contact on applications. “This lack of human contact, and then adding on COVID has resulted in significant delays and frustrations because most applicants want a human that they can talk to,” Suleman explained. Processing times from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are notoriously unreliable, he added, because estimates are based on the agency’s internal criteria of processing 80 per cent of application times within a preset, publicly stated timeline. But those numbers shift all the time, and the ways in which the applications are being processed are shifting too. “A decision for a Brazilian visitor visa is not necessarily going to be made by an immigration officer in Brazil, it could be any kind of immigration officer anywhere in the world, because workloads are being moved around,” Suleman said. Additionally, the IRCC is increasingly using artificial intelligence to triage decisions very quickly, but Suleman said that Continued on page 16
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Two people were sent to hospital after a fire broke out in a North Vancouver apartment building early Tuesday morning.
A report of a blaze came in at 4:17 a.m. at the International Plaza apartments at 1959 Marine Dr., said Mark Dear, assistant fire chief with District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services. Crews from all three North Shore fire departments responded to the call, and discovered a “fully involved” single unit on the third floor. Firefighters preformed a primary search and fire control, and found two individuals in the unit who were taken out of the building at transferred to the care of BC Ambulance Service, Dear said. Dear said he believes the patients were unconscious at the time, and were sent for care at Vancouver General Hospital. North Shore News has reached out for more information on the status of the patients. According to the District of North Vancouver, around 70 people evacuated from the building are receiving support services from North Shore Emergency Management and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish
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ooking back on how the last few years have gone, you’d be forgiven if you aren’t ready to declare that 2023 is going to be “your year.” No doubt, we’ve all faced some dark times and setbacks. But we publish this final editorial of 2022 in defence of optimism. This time two years ago, a New Year’s Eve party would have been against the law. This time last year, half of the people invited would have been at home nursing symptoms of Omicron. We aren’t out of the woods yet as the pandemic goes, but progress is progress. We toast the genius of our scientists who delivered the vaccines, developed the tests and provided the guidance that has allowed us to safely gather and go about our lives again. It is in this spirit that we greet the
last days of 2022 and look forward to 2023. Optimism abounds. Indeed, it is the natural fire that spurs us to action in any challenge. Without a belief that things can and must be better, why bother doing anything? There is no shortage of challenges that will call on us to be at our best, most optimistic selves in the next 12 months, in our own homes and in the world at large. The way that we’ve been tested and the way we have responded since COVID19 set upon us leaves us with no doubt that we are capable of rising to the occasion, whatever it may be. This Dec. 31, may your champagne flute (or mug of cocoa) always be half full. Don’t hesitate to say it. Don’t even be afraid to shout it: Happy New Year to you. Happy New Year to all of us.
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It’s almost time to leave 2022 in the rear view mirror, but not before we look back at the highs and lows of a year that saw a pandemic continue, a royal reign end, and Canada make international headlines for one very annoying thing. Let’s go! Politics When I was just learning to drive, my father taught me that a car’s horn should only be used for one thing: to let everyone at your big, dumb protest know that the hot tub needs a refill. No, that’s not it! My father told me to use the horn only to alert others of an impending collision. Following that sound reasoning, the horn should not be used to protest “mask mandates” or to “send the government a message” or to declare your “freedom” or to let everyone know that you are a “jerk.” That’s what happened in early 2022 though, as a few thousand people came to Ottawa, jammed up the downtown core for nearly a month, and honked. Authorities were utterly unequipped to deal with such a sophisticated honking strategy, and we all came away looking like honking idiots. But the lasting memory of the whole thing was the Ottawa resident who snapped,
unleashing an epic balcony rant that would have made the Trailer Park Boys blush. Here’s a snippet, with a few unprintable words honked out: Laugh All You Want “You walk around Andy Prest with your honking tailgate party and your honk honk nonsense. Nobody honking cares.... Put your honking camera away and shove it up your honking honk, you piece of honk.” Holy honk, what a hero. Elsewhere, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, once again proving that he is really not a good person and probably should not have been allowed to run the United States for four years. Also, Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96 after an incredible 70 years on the throne. The United Kingdom mourned her loss by firing 21 prime ministers into the sun. Healthcare Speaking of things that have been around for 70 years, COVID-19 is still here. OK, maybe it hasn’t been that long, but everyone’s least-favourite pandemic was still
lurking in 2022, making people feel awkward for wearing a mask, or not wearing a mask, or still forgetting to unmute themselves on the Zoom, or trying not to die. Also, the screenwriters of 2022 thought it would be interesting to introduce a new pandemic character called “monkey pox,” but most people disregarded it as they were too busy already ignoring COVID. Media Elon Musk, who resembles a bag full of wet money, said he wanted to buy the website Twitter for $44 billion. Then he didn’t want to buy it. Then he actually did buy it, and promptly started driving it into the ground. Then he basically went full crazy. Sheesh, what a ride. It makes you wonder if he really was in charge during that spectacular crash, or if it was just a Tesla on autopilot. Elsewhere, the game Wordle became an instant hit in 2022 and was purchased by the New York Times. The game remains culturally relevant – you can still lose friends by posting your score, or gain friends by asking anyone over 35 “what’s your opening word?” Up here in Canada, one of our three major communications companies sent the country into chaos when they suffered a service outage in July, forcing more than 10 million
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MAILBOX A GIFT OF CHIPS BRINGS TEARS TO THE EYES OF A PROUD GRANDMA Dear Editor:
Last week, I was gifted two Canucks tickets by a family member. I instantly knew who would leap at the chance of attending with me: my fiveyear-old grandson Hadrien, who moved to Canada at the start of COVID and who is now thrilled to have joined West Vancouver Minor Hockey. I explained that the tickets were an early Christmas present from his uncle and aunt. So on Saturday, we took the SeaBus and SkyTrain. We were both equally excited by our adventure. Hadrien had brought his own money, stashed safely in his zipper pocket (that he must have checked at least 10 times). He bought a drink and a hot dog and later discovered that he had enough left over for a bag of chips. So he bought the aforementioned chips, but chose to “save them until he got home.” The game lived up to both our expectations, despite an unfortunate Canucks loss. Hadrien chatted away about the experience, carefully holding his chips as we headed out to catch the SkyTrain home. As we arrived at the SkyTrain steps, Hadrien said, “Just a minute, Grandma.” He let go of my hand and approached an elderly gentleman sitting on the sidewalk, wrapped in a blanket and said, “Excuse me, would you like my chips?” The gentleman accepted. I had tears of pride in my eyes. I asked Hadrien, “Why did you do that?” This wise, five-year-old replied, “Grandma, my chips might be the only thing that man gets to eat today. Giving makes me feel good, and the chips will make him feel good. It’s a win-win. It’s kind of like a cycle of kindness.”
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AN OLDER GENTLEMAN HELPED ME WITH MY FLAT TIRE
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On Dec. 15, my son was driving my vehicle. I was a passenger. Another vehicle drove into the passenger door. Even with a seatbelt, I was tossed like a rag doll left, then right, banging my head on the door window. I was extremely confused, stunned afterwards. The next day, I had X-rays across from a grocery store. I went into the store and when heading back to the car, an older gentleman with his wife said I had a flat tire. Still confused, I stared at him, trying to make my brain kick in.
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When he found out I did not have a spare or BCAA, he told me I should drive across the street to the gas station and put air in it the tire. I thanked him for his kindness, and did just that. By the time I got out of my car at the gas station, he was already there, putting air in my tire. He paid for the air. I said I’d get money for him inside, and he said it was fine. He asked where I was going. I was heading to Burnaby to have my car assessed for repair, so he suggested I go to OK Tire, in North Vancouver, for repair instead. I expressed my gratitude, but didn’t do enough. I did not think to get his name, address, phone number. He truly saved my day, and perhaps my life, since the car did not behave like the tire was flat and it was the front right one so I didn’t see it.
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I wanted to make sure to pass along my thank-you to the operations department of the City of North Vancouver. What a day (Dec. 20) for your city workers. On this afternoon, I saw two city workers shovelling heavy, wet snow at the sidewalk intersection at 15th Street and Chesterfield Avenue, and wanted to give the department – and especially the men working today – my thank-you. I tried to give the fellow a $20 tip, and he absolutely refused to accept the tip, and said it would be nice if I contacted Mr. McAllister in the operations department and let him know I wished to thank Alan Patrick. So, Alan, and your work mate – thank you for working so hard today to make our pathways safer!
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Metro Vancouver contractors will soon resume cutting down a swath of trees in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park after an outbreak of looper moths left them dying or dead.
Western hemlock looper moths are a native species that go through a cyclical population boom every 11 to 15 years. The larva, which look like inch worms, munch on the needles of and defoliate hemlock, Douglas fir and Western red cedar trees. The current outbreak of moths peaked in 2020 and local governments are now starting to get a handle on the level of tree mortality. Metro cut down about 100 trees from a 3.2-hectare area around the entrance Lynn Headwaters in October but regional parks manager Paul Brar said many more will have to come out in the new year. The area is on a steep slope with houses, a road and hikers nearby. “This particular area was hit really hard and it’s a bit tricky for us,” he said. “It’ll be a significant tree removal, because there’s quite a number of them that are that are dead.” Although the looper moths are bad news for individual trees, they can be good news for the biodiversity of forests as a whole, as the naturally occurring
Trees around the entrance to Lynn Headwaters Regional Park are dead or dying thanks to an outbreak of looper moths, seen here in summer 2022. Metro Vancouver will be removing the dead trees and replanting new ones early in 2023. METRO VANCOUVER
outbreak opens up gaps in the canopy allowing saplings of other species of trees to sprout up in their place. Metro’s plan calls for reforestation with species that will be more resilient to future outbreaks. In other areas where there has been a die-off but there is no threat to public
safety or infrastructure, Metro will be letting nature take its course. Anyone travelling up the Grouse Mountain Skyride in the last two years will have noticed the foliage on west side of the Capilano Reservoir turning orange. “There’s not a particular concern for water quality at this time, but obviously
we keep a really close eye on it,” said Jesse Montgomery, acting director of watersheds and environment for Metro Vancouver. “We’ve got some academic research involved and we’re working with professional foresters for underplanting of other tree species.” Grouse Mountain Regional Park and the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve are having assessments done as well but so far it appears it was just Lynn Headwaters that requires hazardous trees to be cut down. “We don’t know why they struck there,” Brar said. During an outbreak about 20 years ago, it was the Coquitlam watershed that was particularly targeted, Brar said. The District of West Vancouver has been inspecting trees that members of public report as being possibly dangerous. “Staff have dealt with a few trees on public boulevards that became hazardous because of the looper moth infestation. Staff are also monitoring other district trees that have been reported to the municipality to see if they will recover over time. Generally, the overall impact in the urban area has been low,” West Vancouver spokesperson Donna Powers said. The District of North Vancouver will be doing an assessment for damage done by the looper moths in 2023.
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HOLDEN AFTER AND BEFORE
North Vancouver author’s book about death is full of life
“For example, my husband Cam and I went down to the jail in Vancouver, and we got a tour all the way through and saw how everything works in there,” McGuire said. “So I was able to put Holden in that scene, because I had been in that scene.” Other moments are infused with more realism, like her experience with a psychic, where McGuire recorded their conversation. But that event is also one of the book’s most surreal, as she finds herself floored by what the medium says.
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Few books that centre on death are as full of life as Holden After and Before.
One of the objectives was to keep Holden alive in some way, explains Tara McGuire of her fulllength debut. “That’s why I wrote him in present tense,” she said. “I really wanted to see him just walking around and doing his thing and being who he was.” Throughout McGuire’s book, vivid situations swirl off the page: a skateboard hangout gone awry, She wrote bonding about her over beers sister’s death at a New York City as well and called them Jazz club, fiction, even a cathartic metal though concert everybody punctuated knows with an they’re real unexpected bump of people. heroin. AUTHOR As a work TARA MCGUIRE of autofiction – a newish literary genre – McGuire roots experiences in the factual, but lets her imagination lead characters through scenes that ring with truth. The stories happen in real places, many in North Vancouver, where McGuire and Holden moved in with her sister after McGuire’s divorce with her first husband when her son was three. The chapters follow McGuire on her trips through Turkey and
Rebecca angled her head as though she were listening to a faint, far-off sound. She closed her eyes, cleared her throat. To blame this on yourself is to take away my power. I had choices, too. I’m hearing him say, Don’t worry about me, Mom. I’m fine. You can stop worrying about me now.
Author Tara McGuire reflects at Cleveland Dam near her home in North Vancouver. NICK LABA / NSN Croatia, corresponding with an adult Holden as he tried to get back on track. They follow him into a friend’s apartment in the Downtown Eastside where he overdosed, went to sleep and never woke up again. McGuire said that she first started writing a purely fictional novel about Holden. But during the course of her formal writing education, mentors encouraged her to write her own story. Then
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“That’s just the way he would talk,” McGuire said, which helped her to believe the psychic’s connection was genuine. “He would just be like, ‘I got this. Don’t worry about me … I’m making my own decisions here.’” That experience opened her mind to the thought that we might not know what the soul is doing. Maybe our expectations for a lifespan aren’t accurate for everybody. McGuire said it’s helped her take the idea of Holden’s death as something a little softer at times. “I don’t know what his purpose was. I don’t know what mine is. But I have faith that the purpose of the soul is being met in some way, I guess.”
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Court refuses to grant $192M sale of complex to developer JANE SEYD
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For the second time in a decade, a B.C. Supreme Court justice has sided with a group of property owners at North Vancouver’s Cypress Gardens development, who went to court to stop a sale of their entire complex to developers over their objections.
In a decision handed down Dec. 15, Justice Francesca Marzari ruled that not enough of the complex owners were in favour of selling I want to be the property, and able to sell that to order a sale my home would result in when I want financial hardship to many of those to sell it, owners. not because In handing down somebody her decision, the tells me I justice wrote that have to sell while not approving it so they can a sale would mean make a lot of some owners would lose the potential money. for larger profits, APRIL MACKENZIEthat interest “is not MOORE as weighty as the personal hardship that would be forced upon [other owners] should they be forced to sell their
Cypress Gardens resident and unit owner April McKenzie Moore enjoys her home after successfully leading a lawsuit against the complex’s sale to a developer. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN homes.” For April MacKenzie-Moore, a senior who has lived at Cypress Village for 17 years and was one of the residents who opposed the sale, the court decision comes as a huge relief. “I want to be able to sell my home
when I want to sell it, not because somebody tells me I have to sell it so they can make a lot of money,” she said. When MacKenzie-Moore bought her property in 2005, “It was more affordable than anything else I’d looked at,” she said.
Her unit had more space than others she’d seen, and a view out on to beautiful grounds that just aren’t found in condo developments anymore, she said. Another thing that Cypress Gardens has is a very unusual ownership structure, that’s been long since banned by the province. Originally built as an apartment complex in 1962, the project was converted into a condominium-like ownership arrangement in 1979. Although it functions essentially like a strata title, Cypress Gardens is legally not set up that way. Instead, it was grandfathered under a “common law condominium” arrangement in which owners buy “shares.” That’s made it especially difficult to determine under what circumstances one group of owners could force a sale on others. In recent years, that’s usually been determined by the courts. In the case of Cypress Gardens, a very similar legal fight between owners who wanted to sell to a developer and owners who wanted to remain in their homes played out once already, a decade ago, when another B.C. Supreme Court justice also refused to grant the sale of the property to Polygon Homes for $63 million. That offer was made in 2011. “I sat through that court case, said MacKenzie-Moore. “I was opposed then.” Continued on page 15
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Continued from page 14 In the current legal case, owners who wanted to sell the property petitioned the court to sell to another developer, Strand Holdings Ltd., for $192 million. That offer was put forward in January 2022. Among the reasons for wanting the sale, those owners argued that the 20 buildings that make up the complex are nearing the end of their useful lives and will require millions of dollars in repairs in the near future, a cost they said they can’t afford. Some of those owners told the judge they want to retire and move elsewhere, and selling the property as a whole was the only way to realize the most from their investment. In reaching her decision, Marzari wrote that while the group of owners in favour of a sale was “considerably larger” than the pro-sale group in 2011, the amount of support for that still fell short. While Cypress Gardens is not a strata, the group in favour of selling still fell short of the 75-to-80 per cent of owners that would normally be required in comparable strata circumstances, she noted. The “yes” votes in favour of a sale at an extraordinary general meeting of the complex’s management corporation represented 73 per cent of those present, the justice wrote. But she also noted just 56 per cent of the owners had formally petitioned for the lands to be sold. The judge also expressed concerns about the way the deal had come about.
“I agree with many of the respondents that the sale to Strand sought in the petition was not pursued in a transparent manner,” she wrote. North Vancouver lawyer John Whyte, who represented MacKenzie-Moore and 17 of the other owners opposed to the sale, said those owners are “extraordinarily relieved” by the court decision. “We’re talking about people’s futures,” he said. “They’re relieved their lives aren’t going to be upended by this decision.” Cypress Gardens is the “missing middle,” said Whyte. The case, he said, involved many of the same conflicts as we see region-wide, including the skyrocketing cost of housing for middle-class families and the displacement of those people in favour of investors. Many of the owners he represented were older people, who were on fixed incomes and wouldn’t likely qualify for a mortgage if they had to move, he said. Many are immigrants who “have worked hard to be able to get at least a foot on the real estate ladder.” Others are families whose kids go to schools nearby, he said. In her decision, Marzari wrote that a court ordered sale would mean a loss of a home “that is not replaceable” for many owners, because “there is a lack of comparable alternative housing within their financial means …” “It’s a real community,” said MacKenzie-Moore of the resident-owners she’s friends with at Cypress Gardens. “Those people stood to lose a lot.”
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Night-vision technology used to spot injured snowboarder
Continued from page 1 Talon Helicopter’s crew was ready at the Cap Gate SAR station within 35 minutes. With the helicopter team’s night-vision capabilities, they could easily spot the snowboarder’s cellphone light down a familiar gully. They lowered two rescuers about 60 metres below the aircraft, who quickly assessed the subject and got him harnessed to be winched back up. They were flying out of the backcountry before the ground team sent in as back-up had even left the rescue base. The subject was later taken to be checked over at Lions Gate Hospital. “He got home for Christmas. He’s going to be OK. If we didn’t have this tool, we’d still be working out there,” Danks said. Previously, night hoists had only ever been carried out by the military, which uses Cormorant helicopters that aren’t well suited for mountain rescues. Danks said having the ability to use the
hoist at night was a “surreal” experience after years of back-and-forth with Emergency Management B.C. And, he said, it’s now proven its worth. “This individual was basically evacuated from this spot, within a few hours in a very safe and efficient manner…. We put the least amount of people at risk to get him out,” he said. “This is a significant milestone for the province of B.C., 100 per cent. I think this tool will be used far more frequently in the future.” But, while rescues have never been more efficient or safe for the team’s volunteers and rescue subjects, Danks said, it’s also never been more expensive because they now require regular training and recertification. “That’s primarily funded by donations,” he said. “If there’s ever a time that we need support, it’s now.” It’s the first time this winter the team has been tasked with an out-of-bounds rescue,
North Shore Rescue members prepare to take off for their first-ever night hoist mission in the North Shore Mountains after a snowboarder went out of bounds at Cypress Mountain Resort on Dec. 23. NORTH SHORE RESCUE Danks said. The lure of untracked snow is deadly on the North Shore and too many people have lost their lives for it, he added. “The reason it’s untracked is because it’s beyond the boundary and you’re getting
into avalanche terrain. This is a good lesson,” he said. “It certainly could have been a tragedy. This could have been a recovery, if it wasn’t for the tool that we had last night.”
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Tooth came from a whale that was blown to bits by dynamite Continued from page 1 Harbour. Based on the tooth, it most likely was a sperm whale, which were more common in local waters at the turn of the century before being hunted nearly to extinction. “[It] the caused the City of Vancouver Police Force no end of trouble in hooking onto the mammal and floating it out as far as Point Atkinson where it was set adrift only to be carried back to exactly the same spot off Deadman’s Island – the stench followed it,” The whale bone gavel is depicted in front of the 1952 District Long wrote in another letter, of West Vancouver council. COURTESY OF WEST VANCOUVER ARCHIVES which is now kept in the archives at Gertrude Lawson a couple of the teeth and passed one off to House. Long, who kept it as a souvenir, until decidPolice attempted the same manoeuvre ing to bore a hole into it and lathe a handle, two more times, only to have the decaying sometime in 1923. cetacean return on the tides. Long specified that it was his Christmas Not wanting to repeat the process a gift to council when he handed it over two fourth time, they towed the rotting whale years later. The stench was gone by then, he carcass back out to Howe Sound and used made clear. dynamite to blow it to smithereens. The gavel stayed in service through One of those smithereens – a chunk various reeves and mayors. As a symbol of of jawbone with some teeth still attached power, it was often featured in the official – washed up on Gambier Island, where someone happened upon it. They salvaged Continued on page 19
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Gavel was stolen by West Van teen after a 1975 council meeting
Continued from page 18 portraits of council for decades. Then, sometime after the Dec. 1, 1975, council meeting, it vanished. The municipality put a notice in the newspaper saying they’d like the gavel back if anyone happened to know of its whereabouts. In his weekly humour column in the Province, writer Himie Koshevoy joked the “tooth fairy” was at work in West Van. It’s not known whether the theft was reported to West Vancouver police, and the department’s file system for such things doesn’t go back that far. The trail went cold and council moved on. On Dec. 7, 47 years after it was last seen in public, the whale tooth gavel came back to its rightful owner. “It came to this person who knew the provenance – who knew what the object actually was,” district archivist Reto Tschan said. “That person came into the archives last week and said, ‘Here you go.’” On the promise of anonymity for everyone involved, the “donor” shared with Tschan what they knew of the artifact’s more recent history. Sometime after that 1975 council meeting, a teenager who lived
District of West Vancouver archivist Reto Tschan proudly displays a whale tooth used as a gavel by West Van council for 50 years, before it was stolen in the 1970s. It’s back now with a bizarre story. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN in the western part of the district stole the gavel. “They had this idea that it would make a great pipe for smoking hash,” Tschan said. “I don’t know how well it functioned in its new purpose.”
The thief didn’t keep the whalebone hash pipe for long before turning it over to a friend who owned a store in Horseshoe Bay. That friend wasn’t sure what to do with it so it spent most of the intervening years being hidden.
That former shop owner died a few years ago and the relic was passed to another friend. The friends had, apparently, discussed giving it back, but weren’t sure how to go about it. Tschan said he had suspicions
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something was up when a person showed up at the archives earlier this year, wanting to see any documents the district was keeping related to the whale tooth gavel. “I had a bit of an inkling that it was coming, but I was still surprised that it came,” he said. “They wanted to do the right thing.” The original handle and plaque that the gavel rested on remain lost. The tooth/gavel/hash pipe was in otherwise excellent condition – though it did have some remnants of ash and smoke scrubbed out of it, Tschan said. Tschan has since written a short history on the gavel. There are no plans to put it back to use in the council chamber for when things do get out of hand, as Long once envisioned (although it’s probably sturdy enough). “It’s whalebone. It’s ivory, technically. That’s sort of a dubious material to be using that way,” Tschan said. Municipal clerk Mark Panneton said council has a wooden gavel today, though it is rarely if ever used – and not in recent memory. For now, the relic will stay at the archives, kept safe from anyone wanting to repurpose it. “I think, as a historical artifact, it’s welcome here,” Tschan said.
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Continued from page 4 81-kilometre per hour winds thrashed the West Vancouver waterfront, damaging the Centennial Seawalk, Hollyburn Sailing Club and Ambleside and Dundarave piers. The North Shore Eagle Network sounded the alarm after a steep drop off in the number of baby eaglets that successful fledged in the spring – only five, compared to 24 the year before. Provincial scientists were investigating whether avian influenza was the cause. Almost four years after a job-site chemical spill nearly wiped out the fish population of West Vancouver’s Larson Creek, the Crown swore charges against Keller Foundations Inc., a contractor on the highway project. The North Shore’s streams were parched and the Capilano Reservoir looked eerily low following a record-breaking fall drought. Just 11 millilitres of rain fell in September. On Oct. 14, the largest North Shore wildfire in recent memory sparked on Eagle Ridge. It took three days to put out. The North Shore’s bridges and B.C. Ferries’ Horseshoe Bay terminal were frequently the chosen targets of Stop Old Growth Logging protests. Transportation The TransLink Mayors’ Council unveiled their plans for the next round of major transit expansion, including a new
upgraded its North Shore fleet. The City of North Vancouver endorsed its new mobility strategy, which prioritizes walking, cycling and transit. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure released a study it had done into Highway 1. Among the 16 potential improvements over the short, medium and long term: New bus-only lanes on the shoulders, twinning the Capilano River Bridge and more bicycle infrastructure. West Vancouver and the Amalgamated Transit Union came to the brink of a full-blown strike by Blue Bus drivers and support staff but came to a last-minute agreement to send the union’s labour contract to arbitration.
Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, seen here in his North Vancouver studio, sold prints of his work that was to be shown in Kyiv, donating all money raised to UNICEF and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders). CHARLIE CAREY / NORTH SHORE NEWS Bus Rapid Transit line crossing the North Shore and Second Narrows. The detailed designs of the system haven’t been done yet but the North Vancouver chamber endorsed the concept as a means to get
the local workforce moving. Weeee! Electric kick-scooters became legal in the North Shore’s three municipalities and e-bike rental service Lime expanded to West Vancouver and
Housing This year started with word that housing assessments were up across the North Shore – about 22 per cent for single-family homes and 13 per cent for condos. Average assessments ranged from $762,000 for a condo in the city to $2.99 million in for a detached house in West Van. Before he became Premier, NDP leadership candidate David Eby came to North Vancouver to launch his housing platform. Key planks include an increase in public housing projects, more taxes for speculators and removing the ability for some municipal councils to say no to Continued on page 24
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Helicopters called in to combat West Vancouver wildfire Continued from page 22 new developments. A new affordable housing complex for seniors in Lynn Valley was left partially vacant because Kiwanis North Shore couldn’t find tenants that fit both their and BC Housing’s eligibility requirements. To remedy the matter, the District of North Vancouver lowered the minimum age for residents to 55 from 65. DNV Council approved large-scale developments in the growing Lynn Creek and Lions Gate town centres while CNV council kept apace. The North Shore’s population grew by 4.7 per cent since 2016, according to the latest census – most of it in the city. Capilano University received $41.5 million in funding to build a 362-bed student residence building, the first on-campus housing for the school. The Squamish Nation, meanwhile, received a $32.3-million grant for 80 affordable housing units on the xwemelch’stn reserve in North Vancouver and in Squamish. Courts and cops The highest profile case in North Vancouver provincial court was the guilty plea and sentencing of former Vancouver Whitecaps women’s coach Bob Birarda, who was jailed 16 months for three counts of sexual assault and one charge of sexual touching while in a position of
authority, all related to former players. After years of skirmishes in court, illegal hostel hostess Emily Yu was sentenced to 30 days in jail in October for disobeying a judge’s order not to interfere with the forced sale of her former townhouse. A North Vancouver developed was fined $200,000 for demolishing a West Coast Modern home designed by architect Fred Hollingsworth that was supposed to have heritage protection. In October, North Vancouver RCMP officer in charge Supt. William Yee stepped aside after he was the subject of allegations of misconduct. The great outdoors North Shore Rescue members saw their call volumes drop from the record smashing rate in 2021, thanks to the lifting of COVID restrictions, which opened up more options for recreation other than trails. Still, demand remains high and BC Parks brought back a day-pass requirement for Mount Seymour parking and Cypress Mountain Resort is suing the province to allow for pay-parking in some areas within the park. North Shore Rescue volunteers had to go to bat with the province to get permission to use their helicopter’s hoist capabilities at night. After first Continued on page 26
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A North Vancouver man has been found not guilty of attempting to murder his father by stabbing him multiple times because he was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the attack, a provincial court judge has determined.
Duncan Anthony Ian Milne, 24, was found not guilty of attempted murder and assault causing bodily harm by Judge Joseph Galati on Wednesday, Dec. 21, in North Vancouver provincial court. Galati found Milne not guilty because his mental disorder at the time of the stabbing prevented him from knowing his acts were wrong. Galati found on the day of the attack, Milne was suffering from a psychotic episode brought on by underlying schizophrenia. Expert witness psychiatrist Dr. Shabehram Lohrasbe, who interviewed Milne and reviewed medical records regarding his mental illness dating back several years, testified on behalf of the defence. Lohrasbe said Milne told him prior to the stabbing, on Aug. 26, 2022, he had taken a bus downtown and bought some “magic mushrooms” and mushroom capsules, then taken some before going back to the family home in North Vancouver. At some point that evening, Milne developed negative thoughts about his father, Lohrasbe said, and grabbed a kitchen knife. When his father asked him why he had the knife, Milne replied, “I’m going to kill you,” according to Lohrasbe. Lohrasbe added Milne didn’t recall any
previous thoughts of actually wanting to kill his father. His father managed to take that knife away, but Milne got a second knife with a three-inch blade and confronted his father again, eventually stabbing him multiple times. The father was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and eventually released. Lohrasbe told the judge while not a lot is known about psylocibin mushrooms, “I’ve never had a case where the consumption of mushrooms was associated with subsequent violence,” he said. Far more likely, the psychotic episode was caused by underlying schizophrenia, a condition consistent with Milne’s medical history and observations of family members over a period of time, he said. Milne had been prescribed anti-psychotic medications, but it is sometimes difficult to get symptoms fully under control, said Lohrasbe. “There’s little question in this case, that at the time that he stabbed his father, Mr. Milne was acutely psychotic, which drastically impacted his knowledge of the wrongfulness of his actions,” said Lohrasbe. “It would have made it very difficult for him to think clearly,” he said. “I don’t think he grasped the enormity of what he did.” Family members are the most common target of violence from people with schizophrenia, Lohrasbe told the judge. Milne, who has been in custody since the incident, will now appear before a psychiatric review board which will determine his next steps.
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Prominent family reveals distant municipal ties to slave trade Metro later filed a $500 million suit against Acciona. The cases have not been heard in court.
Continued from page 24 refusing, citing vague safety guidelines, Emergency Management B.C. relented in October. West Vancouver announced plans to restore, in part, the Capilano Pacific Trail, which was wiped out by a landslide in January 2021. And the Quarry Rock Trail, which was initially closed in 2020 to prevent crowds from forming, and was later heavily damaged the Nov. 2021 atmospheric rivers, was targeted for a late-autumn re-opening though that has been delayed to 2023. Business matters Seaspan, the North Shore’s largest employer, had more than 1,000 workers from its shipyards operation off the job for about six weeks after they refused to cross a picket line established by Canadian Merchant Service Guild, which Seaspan’s tug boat captains and engineers belong to. They reached a tentative labour agreement in October. In November, workers and dignitaries celebrated a milestone in the construction of the newest offshore oceanographic science vessel currently under construction at the shipyard. West Vancouver council opened the door to craft breweries and cannabis shops in certain zones in the municipality, subject to council approval. So far,
Guy Heywood and his partner, Christine Best, sit at the entrance to Heywood Park in North Vancouver. Heywood’s distant family members financed the settlement of North Vancouver with a family fortune amassed in the slave trade. MIKE WAKEFIELD / NSN two pot shops have opened. ICBC announced they would be vacating their Lower Lonsdale headquarters, where the public insurer had been based for more than 40 years. A transition to working from home and a relatively low
number of local employees were cited as the main reasons. Acciona, the design and engineering firm fired the stalled North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant filed a $250 million lawsuit against Metro Vancouver.
Conversation starters During Black History Month, we published a story detailing how the Heywood family that founded much of early North Vancouver financed their venture with a family fortune amassed in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. A Tesla driver made national headlines after his vehicle caught fire in North Vancouver and he became trapped inside, having to kick out the window to escape. Just after Remembrance Day, 98-yearold West Van veteran Joyce McKay finally received her British Commonwealth War Medal 1939-1945 for her service as a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force driver during the war. West Vancouver woman Emilyn Golden was hailed as a hero after she swam out into English Bay to rescue an autistic teen who was being swept out. When Queen Elizabeth died, North Shore residents shared their stories of coming up close and personal with her. And a North Vancouver woman raised a ruckus when Avis billed her for driving 36,000 kilometres in three days – enough to make it 91 per cent of the way around the equator. They later reversed the charges.
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Emergency services on scene to help displaced residents Continued from page 7 There was no word on a cause of the fire by press time. North Shore Emergency Management director Emily Dicken said her team knew right away to set up a reception centre at Lions Gate due to the proximity of the fire. “We’re really busy at the moment,” she said. Once fire services have completed their investigation and know the extent of the damage, NSEM will start working with evacuees to return home or transition to
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Here are some of our favourite animal stories from 2022
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Whether they caught our attention by displaying some righteous attitude or stealthily skulked past our home surveillance cameras, the exploits of wildlife (and sometimes domestic animals) that make the North Shore home are often more of a thrill to read about than human endeavors, it seems.
Pod of amazing orcas give kayakers thrill of a lifetime off West Vancouver When it comes to thrilling nature sightings, however, there’s nothing that beats a pods of orca whales, especially if it’s up close and personal. That’s what happened when a local kayaker had a close encounter with a pod of orca whales off West Vancouver’s Eagle Island, describing the experience as a “once in a lifetime” thrill. “They probably got within 15 metres when they turned direction all of a sudden,” said Ali Shuparski . “So it was quite the adrenaline rush,” she added.
This year was no exception, when it came to heeding the call of the wild. Here are some of our favourite animal stories from 2022: Cat chases off black bear in North Vancouver If you’ve ever wondered, “Who would win in a fight between a house cat and a black bear?” an answer was provided in June. That’s when a two-year-told Bengal cat named Tigger came face-to-face with a black bear in front of his owner’s home in North Vancouver. Tigger’s owner, Gavin Sturrock, posted a video of the encounter to TikTok, which has since gone viral. Cat fanciers familiar with feline attitude probably weren’t surprised by Tigger’s alpha energy in this close encounter. Man fends off North Vancouver black bear with coffee mug Speaking of alpha traits, a local man
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North Vancouver skunk survives a month trapped in domed ice-cream lid A couple of animals caught our attention when they got themselves in a pickle. Mira and Bryan O’Connor spotted a mall skunk hobbling about with its head stuck through a domed lid in August. With the help of Critter Care Wildlife Society, a net and a blanket, the skunk was soon on its way to rehabilitation. As for the smell, “You could smell a little bit of it in the air, but it was almost nothing,” said Bryan. West Vancouver crews save kitty stuck in car’s bumper Continued on page 30
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Big dog hitches ride with North Shore Rescue Continued from page 29 In July, West Vancouver Fire & Rescue members lived up to their reputation as cat rescuers, when they pulled a trapped kitty from the rear end of an SUV at Park Royal. A family had gone to the mall to have photos taken and brought their little black fur-family member, Kitty, with them. “When the door opened, the cat jumped out of the vehicle and right into a small space in the back bumper of the car next to theirs,” said assistant chief Gareth Michael. Hilarity and heroic efforts by firefighters ensued. Injured dog hitches helicopter ride off Mount Seymour with NSR Finally there was a pooped-out pooch who got some special attention from North Shore Rescue and a helicopter ride home in August after getting into trouble on the North Shore’s Mount Seymour. The significant size of the dog named Duke – no shrinking canine, the pup weighed in at about 112 pounds – also complicated the prospect of a rescue. Eventually, one of North Shore Rescue’s experienced dog handlers got Duke into a dog harness and into the helicopter with his owner. And away they went. All together now: “Awwww.”
A small skunk rescued by the Critter Care Wildlife Society recovers after surviving a month outside North Vancouver’s Lynn Valley Centre with its head caught in a domed ice cream lid. CRITTER CARE WILDLIFE SOCIETY
Golden retriever Duke is carried off Mount Seymour to a waiting helicopter by members of North Shore Rescue. RYAN MORASIEWICZ / NSR
A pod of orca whales off North Vancouver’s Cates Park gave whalewatchers on shore a thrill shortly after a different pod of whales had a close encounter with a West Vancouver kayaker this summer. CAROL COLEMAN
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As Kathy Clarke sat at her desk on Dec. 14, she happened to glance up from her computer and saw an unusual sight: the J-pod was making its way along Howe Sound.
Clarke, whose home on Bowen Island overlooks Collingwood Channel, the west side of Keats Island and up to Port Mellon, called for her husband and then grabbed her camera. In Clarke’s 11 years on the island, she says they’ll see a blow, a couple of whales or pod of dolphins every once in a while. But a pod of orcas? Not so much. “It was just one of those lucky days. I reached for the camera and it had a full charge, my [telephoto] lens was on the camera. And I could just go out onto my deck and start snapping photos,” Clarke said. “That’s why I say everything lined up that day — I’m buying a lotto ticket.” She posted her sighting and photos to the Howe Sound/ Átl’ka7tsem Cetacean Sightings
Group on Facebook so others could witness the whales too. They were headed toward Pasley Island, and maybe out to the Strait of Georgia when she lost sight of them. Then, she made a report to Ocean Wise’s WhaleReport. It was tough to count how many orcas were there, Clarke said, as they took turns diving underwater and out of sight. She estimates there were 10, but maybe more. And among the whales Clarke saw was one that appeared smaller than the rest. Earlier this year, the newest member of the J-pod, J59, was born. The female calf “was pretty rambunctious and looked pretty healthy,” when Gary Sutton, a research technician at Ocean Wise Whales Initiative, saw her in October during a survey for the Centre for Whale Research. They came across J37 with her baby tucked behind her. Hopefully, he said, there are more babies to join the 25-member pod. Studying whales in winter Prior to their sighting in Howe Sound, J-pod spent the previous week or so in the Puget Sound
Kathy Clarke spotted members of the J-pod in Howe Sound on Dec. 14 from her Bowen Island home. KATHY CLARKE
area (near Seattle) which is a pretty common location for them at this time of year, Sutton said. While he was surprised they were suddenly in Howe Sound after being in Puget Sound for days on end, Sutton said he shouldn’t have been since orcas can travel more than 100 miles per day. He’s happy to see them finding winter chinook and rolling as a big group, socializing. Usually, the most
common sightings of orcas on the Sunshine Coast are Bigg’s killer whales (also known as transients). The Southern Resident Killer Whales can often be identified by their sheer group size, Sutton said, as they typically travel in larger numbers. Some of the southern residents can be further identified by what’s called an open saddle patch, a black mark that extends into the white patch on the whale. As
for differentiating between the three pods — the J, L and K pods — Sutton refers to the online catalog of photos gathered by the Centre for Whale Research on the San Juan Islands, an effort that’s been going on since the mid-70s. It’s not completely abnormal for the J-pod to be seen in Howe Sound, Sutton said, since they’ll get close to it, especially during winter months. It is interesting to see them right around the islands. In the summer, the J-pod has a “pretty predictable travel pattern” as they move up through the Gulf Islands toward the mouth of the Fraser River (and even further up into Vancouver Harbour) as they follow the salmon run. The southern resident killer whales were hit hard in the ‘70s, when about 30 per cent of the population was captured and moved to marine parks. Sutton said the younger animals were especially targeted, leaving a “big gaping hole in the population that they’ve had a hard time recovering from.” There was also historic overfishing on the coast, Continued on page 35
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Indigenous healing It is a stark contrast to the state of education just over a century ago, when Indigenous cultural practices being accepted, not least actively encouraged, would have seemed like Utopian fiction to many First Nations communities. The new way of schooling is certainly the light at the end of the tunnel for that dark chapter of Canadian history, but O’Neill says
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Run by educators who believe schools should nurture the innate needs and wants of young people, rather than put them into a cookie cutter student mould, you would be hard pressed to find a youth hunched over their desk, scribbling notes monotonously from a whiteboard. “Kids need to move. If they move, they are learning,” says Tanya O’Neill, principal of siʔáḿθɘt, a K-12 TsleilWaututh Nation school in North Vancouver. As O’Neill talks over the phone, she is watching students from her window, skinning rabbits in the great outdoors. Soon they will be dying the hides, she says, the latest lesson in a string of ancestral teachings. “The kids worked with salmon just a couple of weeks ago, tanning the skins and turning them into a deeper colour. They play the drums, they use rattles, they weave.” At 9 a.m. every morning, the whole school starts the day by joining together in the courtyard for communal drumming and singing.
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it doesn’t mean the book should be closed. Education on the residential school system and the long-lasting effects of it is equally as important to the students as the re-immersion of the culture itself. “I tell this to the kids every day,” she says. “We are here for you, but as much as we built this school for you, we built it for your parents and grandparents too.” O’Neill says her community is thankful for the “handful of people” who still carry the Tsleil-Waututh traditions and cultures: with the cultural practices of many First Nations pushed to the brink of extinction, there being enough knowledge prevailing to curate entire school syllabi is a feat against all odds. The knowledge keepers, referred to her as “warriors,” shape the curriculum around the four seasons and what is typically practised for Indigenous people in their own communities during that time. At Capilano Littlest Ones
(Xwemélch’stn Etsimxwawtxw), a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) preschool in North Vancouver, September sees kids connecting with local fisheries to watch the life cycle of salmon. They catch, clean and cook the fish, learning its ties to Indigenous culture along the way. During p’i7tway (deer mating season) in October, the youngsters are given their first teachings on the hunting season, in an age appropriate way. “We follow what historically our people would have learned at that time,” says Jodi Miki, the school’s principal. “We will be out on the land, harvesting with the little ones during fall, or, for example, when it’s time for the eagles to go up to Brackendale, we will be there learning about the history of the land, and the place names.” The curriculum Upon utterance of “land-based Continued on page 36
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Orcas eat chinook salmon in winter Continued from page 32 affecting the salmon runs the whales rely on as there are fewer fish and the average size of fish has decreased. But in December and the winter months, the orcas are feeding on the chinook salmon that in turn feed on baitfish, and there’s a lot of baitfish in Howe Sound, Sutton said. That’s likely what’s bringing them toward the area, “which is certainly a good sign… If the whales are there, they’re following something — they’re following food.” Since around 2013, these orcas have been spending less time near the Strait of Georgia in the summer, instead opting for the western entrance of the Juan de Fuca Strait, but more time here in the winter. This is a trend a new Ocean Wise Whale Initiative pilot project will begin studying in the next month or so, examining the wintering habits of whales in the Salish Sea from the Sunshine Coast to Cowichan Bay. Sutton said they hope to collaborate with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to collect prey samples and fecal samples to determine what the whales are feeding on, particularly in winter — what is bringing them here. What about the humpbacks? The winter pilot project will also study humpback whales. Sutton’s colleague Tasli Shaw has been tracking humpback whales in the Salish Sea since 2012. In
her decade of research, Shaw’s count of humpbacks went from 26 individuals to 801 — including a record number of calves spotted this year. “There’s just been this explosion of humpbacks coming back since historic exploitation, and it’s an amazing thing to see,” Sutton said. Humpbacks are “a huge success story,” Sutton said, as they were hunted extensively and eradicated from the area before trickling back in the 1990s. It’s important to report Clarke’s was the only report to WhaleReport about the J-pod in Howe Sound on Dec. 14. Sutton said such reports are important, especially in the winter months when fewer people are on the water and researchers don’t know where the whales are traveling to. There’s an immediate and long-term benefit in reporting whale sightings. “It’s not just important for citing data information, and hopefully using that information down the road to influence things like critical habitat and fisheries management,” Sutton said. For this sighting, he pointed out how close the orcas were to ferry routes. “When you submit your sighting using the WhaleReport app, these notifications get sent to the shipping traffic in the area, various freighters, letting them know that the animals are there, so they can exercise extra caution when operating around them.”
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Science and math bolstered by study of salmon and traditional weaving Continued from page 33 learning” it is easy to envision kids running riot through the wilderness, bearing no grasp of ABC’s or times tables. Such is not the case, stress both Miki and O’Neill: whether for teenagers or toddlers, all lessons operate under the guidelines of the British Columbia Ministry of Education, but with cultural practices woven in. Knowledge Keeper Rebecca Duncan, whose ancestral name is Tsitsayxemaat, works alongside Miki to craft the syllabus each year for the kids of Capilano Littlest Ones. Core subjects are still being taught, she vouches, but not in a way that is recognizable to most. Science and biology is embedded within the teachings of salmon rearing and being outdoors, for example, while math is implemented with all the counting, adding and subtracting that comes with weaving. “When building the curriculum, we meet all of those core standards, but we’re just making it so relevant and so meaningful and so contextual,” she says. “Our version is just much more strongly steeped in language and culture.” Without the monoculture so heavily pushed in regular schools, students from land-based learning establishments leave education with mental elasticity and a finer understanding of their own interests and career desires. Or, as O’Neill refers to it, “as a whole person, rather than just an academic.”
Cara and Lucas Jefferson have long preferred land-based learning programs over public schooling. CARA JEFFERSON “We’re setting up our kids to be successful in the future in whatever way, shape or form that they decide they want to go,” she adds, adding how the school continues to witness more and more high school students graduating, and moving on to post secondary education and
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homework” excuses? Cara Jefferson, whose eight-year-old son Lucas attends Capilano Littlest Ones, says her son “loves school and loves learning.” Her family has always been cultural and traditional, she says, forever attending ceremonies where different cultures are represented and different dialects spoken, so Lucas is no stranger to going back to his roots. What Capilano Littlest Ones does is show him who he is and where he comes from within his own specific community. “It’s great that when he goes to school it’s specifically the Squamish song, the Squamish language and the Squamish traditions. He gets to learn a bit about all of who he is.” Not all students are immersed like Lucas from a young age – some come knocking on the door of siʔáḿθɘt as teenagers, seeking cultural support and guidance, often after being thrust into the public schooling system and experiencing exclusion or bullying – but for all those enrolled, the end result is consistent. Students have a better understanding and appreciation for learning, they feel heard and seen. As O’Neill herself puts it: “Our hurt came from education, and our healing will come from the same place.” Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
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MCCORMICK, Janice Lyn August 2, 1951 − December 29, 2018 BOUVET, Barbara Constance December 18, 1923 - December 17, 2022 Passed away peacefully in the family home of 75 years. Lovingly remembered by son Bruce (Patricia); grandsons Kenneth and Patrick; nephew Jeffrey (Kamile) Langstaff; and great niece Sophie (Tony) Salcito; and great great niece Sienna. Predeceased by her husband, Frank Bouvet, and by her sister, Florence Langstaff. Barbara loved her family, her home, her neighbours and her animals. She loved spending hours in the garden. She was the most caring, loving individual throughout her life. Her final resting place will be at Capilano View Cemetery in West Vancouver. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, January 4th at 1:00pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the North Shore Palliative Care team.
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Passed away peacefully on December 20th, 2022, in her home surrounded by her daughter Virginia, son−in−law Jeffrey, and grandchildren Monica, Laura, and Georgia. She will be missed by her daughter Barbara, son−in−law Stephen and grandchildren Christina, Stephanie and husband Matthew. Allison was months away from holding her new great−grandchild, Emily Christine, born August 25th. Predeceased by her daughter Laura and the father of her children, George Neil. She will be remembered for her impeccable seamstress skills, proudly displayed through countless matching dresses on her daughters and granddaughters. She passes these down to the next generation, as well as her stunning, handmade stained glass lamps and other carefully curated pieces from her various lovely homes. Allison was also known and celebrated for her community leadership, gardening expertise, and graceful elegance. Heartfelt gratitude is expressed to Allison’s dedicated caregivers for their kindness and compassion, especially her daughter Virginia and son−in−law Jeffrey. A memorial service will take place at a later date to be announced. In lieu of flowers, charitable donations may be made to one’s charity of choice.
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GROUNDWATER, Ellen Marina (nee Stewart) 1935 - 2022 It is with great sadness and love that we announce that our dear mother and grandmother Ellen Groundwater passed away peacefully on December 20, 2022. She was predeceased by her husband Harry in 2016 and her son in law Dave in 2014. Ellen was a pioneer of Seymour Heights and lived for almost 60 years a block from where she grew up. She will be lovingly missed by her children Ann, John, Sandy (Dan), daughter-in-law Julie, grandchildren Emily, Ben, Connor, Eliza (Jordan), Lee (Anna), Milo (Danny), and great grandson Io. A memorial service will be held on January 5, 2023 @1:00pm at North Shore Alliance Church, 201 -23rd St. E, North Vancouver, In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association would be gratefully accepted.
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