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North Vancouver school given traditional, Tsleil-Waututh name

By Mina Kerr-Lazenby, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Seycove Secondary, a high school in North Vancouver’s Deep Cove neighbourhood, has been gifted a new name of Seycove at sə́yəmətən by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. 

Pronounced say-əm-me-ton, the name translates to ‘a good place of water’ in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, and is the name of the original Indigenous village at Strathcona.

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