Tag Archives: the Broughtons

Circumnavigating Gilford Island (Indulging a Longing for Inlets)

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Karin Cope

6 July 2012 Viner Sound/Tribune Channel/Bond Inlet and the Ahta River/Sargeaunt Passage/Knight Inlet/Tsakonu Cove After days of rain and fog, summer suddenly arrived in the Broughton, hot and bright. We stayed moored to the Forest Service buoy in Viner Sound … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Ahta River, bears, Billy Proctor, Bond Inlet, Gilford Island, Knight Inlet, Lacy Falls, rhinoderos auklets, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons, Tribune Channel, Viner Sound | 6 Comments

Fishing Lessons II (In which we kill a lingcod and learn to fillet it)

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Karin Cope

4 July 2012 Viner Sound, BC We were moored to a Forestry Service buoy in Viner Sound and our provisions were running low. A fresh fish would be lovely, we thought. Our friend Rick, who had persuaded us to come … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Bald Eagle, bears, fishing, Kalagan, lingcod, the Broughton Archipelago, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons, Viner Sound | Leave a comment

The Sound of Something Vanishing (Billy Procter)

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Karin Cope

2 July 2012 Echo Bay, Gilford Island, BC We were eager to meet Billy Proctor, a lifelong resident of Echo Bay, now in his 70s. Billy had worked as a fisherman, a hand logger, a beachcomber, a salvager, and an … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Alexandra Morton, Bill Williams, Billy Proctor, Billy's Museum, Eastern Shore, Echo Bay, Ramey Munroe, Salmon Coast Field Station, salmon farms, salmon forest, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons | 3 Comments

Echo Bay

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Karin Cope

When we first began sailing in British Columbia in 2011, we met many people who talked about how damaging and contentious salmon farming was in the province. They talked about how dangerous salmon farms are to the wild salmon fishery—one … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Alexandra Morton, APES, Echo Bay, farmed Atlantic salmon, open pen salmon farms, salmon, Salmon Coast Field Station, salmon farms, salmon feedlots, the Broughton Archipelago, the Broughtons | 5 Comments

“Islands in front” (Memqumlis) or Mamalilaculla

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Karin Cope

30 June 2012 Our visit to the relics at Mamalilaculla, on Village Island, was preceded by many stories about the abandoned village, once the main winter community for the Mamaleleqala-qweqwa sot’enox people, a branch of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation. Abandoned … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged bears, Indian Act, Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts, Mamalilaculla, potlatch, ruins, the Broughtons, Village Island | 2 Comments

Potts Lagoon

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Karin Cope

28-30 June 2012 Potts Lagoon is a still surviving although not exactly thriving float home community anchored in a narrow cove on West Cracroft Island near the outlet of a lagoon. Named after Murray Clarke Potts, an Ontario student of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged bears, berries, birds, Eastern Shore, float homes, hard economic times, Potts Lagoon, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons | 4 Comments

Forest Products and Fish Food

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Karin Cope

27 June 2012 (Log) When we woke the world was bathed in a grey wash–pale sky, steely water, grey green hills, granite cliffs. We raised the anchor and slipped out of Forward Harbour and into the Sunderland Channel. We motored … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Chatham Channel, clearcuts, fish farms, resource exploitation, the Broughtons | Leave a comment