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Our old movie theatre got a new paint job! It used to be a Paramount, then Landmark bought it when it was updated to digital and big seats, now this year it was sold to a local non-profit as a social enterprise.
Renamed the Savoy Theatre. Still hosts new movies. It was sold out for Spider-Man on Thursday! https://www.savoytheatrepa.ca
Love the mural. Very #PortAlberni #tseshaht #Hupacasath :portalberni: :TseshahtFN: :hupacasath:
the beauty of small town life is the friends you make and that at any moment you might get a text that says, "Hey Chris! I have a bunch of fresh sockeye! Want a couple!?"
YES!!
Now it's been a minute since my salmon trolling days on dad's boat, but when your hands have gone through 1000s of them, there is still a bit of motor memory to draw on. 😂
I can still do a decent job cleaning and filleting a fish.
This is a good size sockeye, our run are generally under 10lbs (head and guts included). This one was about 7lbs. Plenty to feed 4!
And for a little more history of all things rail on this Island, check out this video from the BC History youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh8EUvRe78
#PortAlberni #ENRailGrant #Hupacasath #Tseshaht #Rail #VancouverIsland
This video brings a tear to this engine's eye!
Can hardly wait to stretch my wheels out to McLean Mill and maybe to Cathedral Grove!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlGm8JxvIkU
#PortAlberni #ENRailGrant #Hupacasath #Tseshaht #Rail #VancouverIsland
We’ll be putting out a #SocialBC email and announcement next week for exciting plans to come! Look for it in your inbox, on the Announcements on the front page and I’ll post it as a thread as well.
Stay tuned and have a wonderful first weekend of spring! Beautiful here in traditional un-ceded Tseshaht :TseshahtFN: and Hupacasath :hupacasath: territories!
Time for some outside time! The rhodo is waking up!
Today's sunset over Arbutus Ridge in #portalberni #nuuchanulth #tseshaht :TseshahtFN:
#Hupacasath :hupacasath:
Only 20 or so more days of it moving down the ridge line....
(the plume is mostly steam from the paper mill)
Apologies for the LinkedIn link, but this one is worrh it to see a historical picture of the Alberni Indian Residential School behind two strong survivors, one of whom, Judith Sayers, has gone on to be a leader of her First Nation, a respected lawyer, drafter of UNDRIP, chancellor of my University among many many other accomplishments. #hupacasath #un
#reconciliation #canada #canpoli
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/judith-sayers-9a662994_my-mother-bea-watts-sayers-went-to-residential-activity-7378830742077956096-rBfZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAASGgFMBvZfpiHoAfmpwrlNYqbvX13kHl48
“Watts said there is still racism in the Alberni Valley, but seeing how many people gathered today help him know that the people with bad intentions are the vast minority.
"Port Alberni's a place with a heart and this is an event that really showed that today.””
🧡🧡
#TruthandReconciliationDay #PortAlberni #BC #Tseshaht #Hupacasath
If you don't have Hashilthsa in your regular list of news sites to paruse, you should. It's the oldest indigenous-led news source in Canada.
Here's another great article, this one about yesterday’s march to mark #truthandreconciliationday. Tseshaht and Hupacasath and other Nuuchanulth nations have been doing these walks in #PortAlberni since 2017.
So many people have been deeply affected by the former Alberni Indian Residential School which closed in 1973.
Port Alberni was at the forefront of bringing people involved in residential schools to justice as well:
"In his 1995 sentencing of a former Alberni dormitory supervisor, Justice Douglas Hogarth called the residential school system “nothing less than a form of institutionalized pedophilia.””
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Indigenous #Tseshaht #Hupacasath #healing #TRCDay
check that. I think there may have actually been over 1000 people walking. They are still coming into the hall and they stretch all the way down road still
Final post a song #portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
stretching all the way down the hill! #portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
The marchers are almost here.
Lots of birds around. A seagull making more awake than he should lol. A bald eagle. And a Raven watching us from across the river
#portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
enjoying the rivers edge while we wait for the march. It started up river about 2km from here at the former site of the Alberni Indian Residential School.
The area across the Somass/Tsu'amaas River is a large estuary. Huge salmon habitat (chinook, coho, sockeye). It was also the location of the first settlers to get here (both Spanish and British)
#portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
Walked from my house to about the halfway point of the full march waiting for them to arrive. This is Victoria Quay, the Welcoming Figures and the Whaling Sculpture.
These are at the foot of Johnston Road / Highway 4 in #portalberni at the Tsu'amaas (Somass) River.
It smells of the ocean, and the end of the salmon run which might sound unpleasant, but it's not. :)
more details in the image Alt descriptions.
#ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
off to join the #ReconciliationDay march
wearing my #EveryChildMatters orange shirt and my cedar headband. And carrying the kids headbands in their absence. it's a perfect morning for a walk. Partly cloudy just a little cool in the air
:TseshahtFN: #tseshaht :hupacasath: #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
The Federal NDP are on Vancouver Island strategizing for the upcoming Parliament.
Interim leader Davies:
""There's an ebb and flow to politics and I view it as an opportunity for our party to regenerate, to reimagine what a bold, progressive NDP looks like on the federal scene.””
I loved Jack Layton too, but I think it is time to leave Jack to the past. They really need to find someone who is here, in this moment, and can present a real vision for Canadians to strive for and achieve that is the opposite of what the Conservatives and Red-Tory Liberals are trying to do.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Tseshaht #Hupacasath #PortAlberni #Courtenay #Tofino
Today in #Tseshaht :TseshahtFN: #Hupacasath :hupacasath:
Saw čims (Black Bear) today! He was pretty scared of the busy road. Smart bear! Didn't get a good photo, and only mediocre video, but here you go :) 🐻
(this was near the Visitors Centre near the #BCHwy4 junction in #PortAlberni)
I'm really proud that our community, the entire community, is taking action and proposing solutions to the toxic drug crisis. I feel very grateful that we have Tseshaht First Nation leading us in many ways in this effort.
#ToxicDrugCrisis #PortAlberni #Tseshaht #Hupacasath #Nuuchanulth #Drugs #LegalizeAllDrugs #HelpPeople
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2024-02-02/tseshaht-and-alberni-valley-advocate-fully-funded-detox-centre-new-strategy
Every once in awhile I go back to this map of local First Nation names for places and landmarks just to remind myself that they were here long before settlers came and renamed everything. These are from the map created by Hupacasath First Nation. One of two Nations that inhabit this part of Vancouver Island.
https://www.hupacasath.ca/about-us/interactive-places-language-map/
#FirstNations #Canada #WestCoast #Hupacasath #PortAlberni #Tseshaht
This year marks 50 years since the Alberni Indian Residential School was closed. It was closed because of action by First Nations people here themselves, with the leadership of George Watts. Many other schools remained open for many more years. And the main buildings weren't demolished until 2009.
"It was in July 1973 that the West Coast District Council of Indian Chiefs (which later became Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council) sent a letter to the Department of Indian Affairs, propositioning the closure of the residential school. This letter, signed by the West Coast Council’s chairman George Watts, led to a meeting between Canada and Nuu-chah-nulth leaders. On Aug. 31, 1973, AIRS closed its doors forever.”
#Tseshaht #Hupacasath #FirstNations #ResidentialSchools #PortAlberni #AIRS #CanPoli #CdnPoli #NDTR
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/tseshaht-first-nation-gets-ready-to-mark-50-years-since-closure-of-residential-school-4516203
The fun thing about the substitutions/translations on the website into Nuuchanulth is that after a few words I started to get the hang of the Unicode entities and could put them in without consulting the reference list… just writing another language… to write another language :).
https://www.alberniweather.ca
Code for the forecast grabber is on GitHub: https://github.com/chrisale/ECForecastGrabber
#Indigenous #Tseshaht #Hupacasath #language #learning #coding #html #css #perl