New evidence suggests that First Nations people may have arrived in northern Vancouver Island as early as 18,500 years ago.
Chris Hebda, from the Hakai Institute, is the lead author of a study that found Topknot Lake, near Cape Scott, has been ice free since then. In today’s interview he also gives a tentative outline of our area’s history from post ice age settlement down to the First Nations of our era.
Continue reading The Ice Age settlement of Vancouver Island and the Discovery IslandsCortes residents on their travels about the island will have noticed some new roadside sights this January. Several sandwich boards bearing the CityWest logo have appeared in scattered locations, as well as road-work crews with some unusual, specialised heavy equipment.
All this activity is part of the initial phase of the Connected Coast project on Cortes Island.
Continue reading Cortes Island Fibre Project UnderwayLast week I published a story about some old growth trees cut down on Quadra Island, then almost immediately became aware there was much more to the story and took it down.
There is no question about old growth trees being cut down on woodlot licence W2031.
Nor is there any question about the legality of the woodlot licensees action. They have not broken any laws.
Continue reading Retraction regarding cutting some old growth on Quadra IslandA CityWest construction crew will be on Cortes Island for the first four to six months of 2022, to hook individual homes for high-speed Internet.
“Now that we’ve been issued a permit from the ministry of transport (MOTI), we have a green light to proceed with the provincial government’s mandate of connecting Cortes Islanders under the ERI grant program,” said Eric Geall, Operations Manager for West Connect Infrastructure (WCI).
Continue reading What CityWest will be doing on Cortes for the next 4-6 monthsThe southern Discovery Islands beach clean-up is now finished.
“The last truck load of debris left our yard this morning. So we’re now just into the final stages of cleaning up our own yard as a result of all the little styrofoam balls and things,” said Breanne Quesnel.
Continue reading Southern Discovery Islands beach clean-up completed
