Jun 3, 2024 | Events, Region Update
Ocean Week Canada is a national celebration of ocean events, learning, and engagement held during the week of World Oceans Day (June 8). Through these activities and events we strengthen our understanding and our bond with our great blue backyard. In 2024, Ocean Week...
Oct 6, 2020 | Region Update
Maps can be more complicated than what we initially see on the surface. Many of our modern maps have a history of colonialism, with aims of cutting up the landscape, separating people from their traditional territories, and claiming borders and areas for political...
Sep 9, 2020 | Region Update
Are you looking for ways to learn more about nature, spend time outdoors, or get involved in conservation? Although it can be difficult during these times of social distancing, technology has provided us with some new ways of learning—for example, through apps! There...
Jun 8, 2020 | Region Update
During our World Oceans Day event (Celebrate the Sound/Átl’ḵa7tsem) we shared a few tips and ideas for ways that YOU can protect the Sound’s ocean and communities. Here are links to these websites and more! If you can, get out on or around the water. Gingerly...
Nov 20, 2019 | Region Update
The OceanWatch Task Force was created June 2017, by members of the Howe Sound Community Forum (HSCF). The purpose of the Task Force is to progress marine enhancement recommendations created by the Coastal Ocean Research Institute (CORI) Ocean Watch Howe Sound Edition...
Sep 13, 2019 | Region Update
Underwater oases of 500 million year old reefs made out of glass sponges in the Howe Sound have become protected by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. With summer coming to an end, the fishing season is still in high force. People partaking in commercial,...
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