Category Archives: Indigenous Nations

Lund Is Soul Candy

By Roy L Hales

The village of Lund is about 20 miles from my home on Cortes Island. There are vantage points on Cortes, from which you can actually see Savary Island. Though only a short distance across the waters, it takes a day and three ferry trips to drive there. The experience is delightful. Lund is soul candy.

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Clam Gardens

Originally broadcast in Season One of the Deep Roots Initiative, Cortes Radio, CKTZ, 89.5 FM

Legend tells us first peoples of the Northwest Coast cultivated shellfish. To explore this further and to consider current shellfish farming and our future, Oudette Auger speaks with Judith Williams, author of “Clam Gardens.”

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The Manson Family: One of Cortes Island’s First Settler Families

Michael Manson’s grandfather came from the Shetland Islands and founded Sunny Brae Farm in the late 1880s. Mike told me the Cortes Island Story, as experienced by one of the first settler families.

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The Energetic Forest

Originally published on Cortes Radio, as part of the Deep Roots Initiative, Season One.

“Do trees communicate? Do they look after each other and other species?

Story Producer Rick Bockner unearths a sophisticated network of co-dependent life forces, below and above our feet.

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