The Salmon Celebration

Event Location

Workshops 2008

Schedule

12:00 - Sambata
12:30 - Mooshum's Little Jiggers
1:00 - Parade
1:30 - Arlette Alcock
2:00 - Nisga'a Dancers
2:30 - Fraser Union
3:00 - Fish Stories with Terry Slack / Speeches
3:45 - Squamish Nation Canoe Family arrival and Protocol

Special Exhibits, Activities

Exhibit - Old salmon labels by the City of Vancouver Archives

Crafts with the False Creek Watershed Society- Fish Hats

First Nationds stencils with Buster Wilson

Wooden boat building with the Maritime Museum

Red Fox group - stilt-walking, hula hoops, etc.

Kids activities with BC Hydro

Sea aquarium with Nature Vancouver

Think City Community Survey

Bike Valet Parking

Community tables and food vendors

False Creek Watershed Society

Wilderness Committee

Think City

Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition

Greenpeace

Living Oceans

Georgia Straight Alliance

Fraser Riverkeepers

Oceanwise - Vancouver Aquarium

City of Vancouver Archives

David Suzuki Foundation

Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC)

Village Vancouver

The Tyee

BC Hydro

Nature Vancouver

Queen Charlotte Seafoods

Sweet Grass Grill

Starbuck's Coffee, Choices baked goods

"Fishy Props" Crafts Workshop

September 7th - Science World 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Free with Science World membership
September 21st - Douglas Park C Centre / Sharing our Wealth 12:00 - 5:00 pm Free
September 28th - At Salmon Celebration site - Vanier Park 12:00 - 4:30 Free

Lost Streams History Workshops - all are free

June 15th - Car-Free Day - Main Street 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
July 30th - Riley Park Farmer's Market 12:30 am- 5:30 pm
August 21, 24 Wooden Boat Building Festival 1pm - 4pm
September 17th - Community Sharing Night / Bruce Macdonald - Carnegie 6:30-8pm September 21st - Kitsilano Farmers Market 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
September 21st - Douglas Park Community Centre / Sharing our Wealth 12:00 - 5 pm

Four "Lost Streams and Big Trees" Walks put on for Salmon Month by the False Creek Watershed Society

All walks are by donation / Please register for each walk

Musqueam Creek - Vancouver's Last Wild Salmon Stream with with Terry Point (FULL!)

Guide:	Terry Point is Project Manager and President of MECS. He has been working on Musqueam Creek since 1997.
Date:	Saturday, September 6
Start Time:	1:00 pm
Address:	Meet at Musqueam Park at the corner of SW Marine Drive and Crown Street.
Wheelchair Accessible:	Some ground is uneven on the trails and paths.
Special Instructions:	Wear walking shoes. Walk is Child-friendly. Rain or shine.
Description:	The tour will take you through Vancouver's Last Wild Salmon stream and the restoration project that have been done over the last ten years by the Musqueam Ecosystem Conservation Society (MECS). The tour will take approximately one to one and a half hours.

East Fraser Lands - a historic place of salmon and streams - walk with Terry Slack

Guide:	Terry is a semi retired commercial Salmon Fisherman, a Fraser River salmon conservationist and has a lifetime love of River history and Archeology.
Date:	Saturday, September 13
Start Time:	10:30 am
Address:	Meeting place South end of Kerr Street South of S. E. Marine Drive. Bus, bike and car parking near River Pier.
Wheelchair Accessible:	The trail surface is compacted small gravel suitable for wheelchair access .
Special Instructions:	Wear walking shoes. The walk is suitable for families; because of the river close by children must be supervised. Rain or shine.
Description:	East Fraser lands was once a place of Wild Coho and Chum Spawning Streams, in the City of Vancouver and will be developed for housing in the near future. We will walk the new trail on the riverfront of the North Arm of the Fraser River, east to Boundary Road. This Walk is located on the waterfront of the old 1908 lumber mill site called White Pine. In the future this will become the East Fraser Lands Riverfront Village Community. On the walk, Terry on the walk will discuss the last chance of "short stream daylighting" one of the 3 wild Vancouver salmon creeks that historically ran through the site. The walk will return back to Kerr Street at about 11.45 .

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Remembering Brewery Creek - Once a wilderness stream - walk with Bruce Macdonald

Guide:	Bruce Macdonald is an avid local historian. His book, "Vancouver a Visual History", chronicles 120 years growth in Vancouver in detail. He worked for many years with the Brewery Creek Historical Society, who mapped out the path of this lost stream with markers and plaques. He has recently completed a study of the history of Mount Pleasant for the City of Vancouver.
Date:	Sunday, Sept 14
Start Time:	1:00 pm - 3:00
Address:	Meet at the Tea Swamp Park, Sophia and 16th
Wheelchair Accessible:	Yes
Special Instructions:	Wear walking shoes. Walk is Child-friendly. Rain or shine.
Description:	We will walk through Mount Pleasant on the route of Brewery Creek to the north, to 5th and Brunswick. This will take about 1.5 hours and 1/2 hour to walk back.

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Big Trees Walk - Stanley Park with Ralf Kelman

Guide:	Ralf Kelman is a Vancouver born heritage advocate. He is a member of the BC big tree committee, a conceptual artist and environmental advocate. He is writing a book on the big trees of the area. He is a longtime advocate for the protection of the old growth trees of the Westcoast and is an expert on the big trees of Stanley Park.
Date:	Sunday September 21
Start Time:	1:00 - 3:00pm.
Address:	Meet at Third Beach Parking lot next to the concession stand.
Wheelchair Accessible:	Some ground is uneven on the trails and paths.
Special Instructions:	Wear walking shoes. Walk is Child-friendly. Rain or shine.
Description:	Ralf will take you into the park to show you some very old trees, including the Hollow Tree. Did you know that the Hollow Tree is the 5th largest Western Red Cedar ever recorded in BC, living or dead? Did you know there are Culturally Modified Trees in the park? Find out this and more!

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To register, please select a walk and fill in your registration details below.

Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners:
Vancouver Maritime Museum, Whole Foods Market, Doug Burt, Aaron Licker, Mountain Equipment Co-op, St. Mark's Anglican Church, Vancouver Aquarium, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Happy Planet Juices, Damien Kettlewell/ Great Bear Pub, Science World, Carnegie Centre, Douglas Park Community Centre, Wooden Boat Festival, Farmer's Markets, Terry Slack, Bruce Macdonald, Terry Point, Ralf Kelman, Dolly Hopkins, Delbert and Victor Guerin, Mooshum's Little Jiggers, Nisga'a Dancers, Arlette Alcock, Fraser Union and the Squamish Nation Canoe Family

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

Read about The Salmon Celebration in the news:

The Vancouver Courier - 2008 event

The Georgia Straight - 2005 event

The Vancouver Courier - 2007 event

L'Express du Pacifique - 2007 event

View Salmon Celebration photos in the "Gallery"

Event Posters: 2004 – 2007

Enlarge the 2008 poster.

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"