"Lost Streams Walks for September as Wild Salmon Month"

The Salmon Celebration will not be offered as a BC Rivers Day event in the False Creek area this year. We thank you for your support and encourage you to look at the documentation on this site of past events. There are also other BC Rivers Day events in Vancouver. You can see these listed at http://www.orcbc.ca/pro_bcriversday.htm

Lost Streams & History Workshops

with noted Vancouver historians - by donation

Sept 11 - St. George's Creek and Daylighting Proposal - a talk about the past, present and the future of this stream - with Bryn Davidson

http://falsecreekwatershed10.eventbrite.com

Sept 12 - Musqueam Creek - Vancouver's Last Wild Salmon Stream - with Terry Point

http://falsecreekwatershed11.eventbrite.com

Sept 18 - Vancouver's Ancient Tsusnahm Creek - with Terry Slack

http://falsecreekwatershed12.eventbrite.com

Sept 18 - Gibby's Field / Gibson's Creek - with Dan Fass

http://falsecreekwatershed13.eventbrite.com

Sept 19 - Ancient Salmon Stream and Musqueam Village at Jericho Beach -with Victor Guerin

http://falsecreekwatershed14.eventbrite.com

Sept 25 - A Walk with the Ancient Plants of Camosun Bog - with Terry Taylor

http://falsecreekwatershed15.eventbrite.com

Oct 2 - Mount Pleasant's Brewery Creek and the Natural Landscape of Vancouver- walk with Bruce Macdonald

http://falsecreekwatershed16.eventbrite.com

Oct 17 - Bridge Street Creek and Lost Streams Discussions - why is it important to talk about Lost Streams? - walk with Celia Brauer and the Historians

http://falsecreekwatershed17.eventbrite.com

Salmon Celebration:

"The Salmon Celebration -Remembering Our History, Celebrating the Living" was a BC Rivers Day event that we created and produced from 2004 - 2009. It grew from a startout audience of 400 to well over a thousand participants annually and it also supported other events such as craft workshops, community tables and Lost Streams walks. The event showcased local artists and performers, featured First Nations groups and individuals and provided a venue for Environmental groups who were working on salmon issues to discuss their work with the public. All-in-all, it was a fun and informative event in the context of BC Rivers Day and over the years thousands of people locally were exposed to the very important discussions of Lost Streams history and the state of salmon today.

Downloads

September is Salmon Month in Vancouver. Download the official Proclamation from City Hall. (pdf, 780 kb)

2008 Salmon Celebration Post Event Publicity (pdf, 15 kb)

Read about The Lost Streams Walks in the news:

The Vancouver Courier - 2008 walks

The Vancouver Courier - 2008 event

The Vancouver Courier - 2007 event

L'Express du Pacifique - 2007 event

View Salmon Celebration photos in the "Gallery"

Event Posters: 2004 – 2009

In 2008, the False Creek Watershed Society once again created the 3rd Annual Interspiritual Salmon Blessing after Earth Day, April 27, 2008. We offered discussions by local faith leaders, education on the Lost Streams of Vancouver and First Nations participation. And most important, we invited the community to come down to the water's edge to offer a blessing to the millions of juvenile salmon who are starting their epic ocean journey.

In 2005, there was a request put out by Alexandra Morton, a prominent biologist who works on the West Coast of Vancouver Island and is very concerned about the serious effects of fish farming on wild salmon. She asked that we offer our concern for the fate of our salmon by heading down to a local waterway and gathering with community members to offer blessings to these very young creatures as they head out to their life at sea.

For 2006, two organizations – the False Creek Watershed Society, and the Sierra Club of Canada BC Chapter, joined together to expand on this idea.

News flash!!!!BEST OF VANCOUVER!!! Georgia Straight votes us "Best Salmon Celebration That Does Not Involve Dinner!

Read the full 2008 Interspiritual Blessing Post Event Publicity (pdf, 33 kb)

Read about The Interspiritual Blessing in the News:   Vancouver Province - 2007

Vancouver Sun -2007

View Interspiritual Blessing photos in the "Gallery"