Five years of effort came to fruition Saturday, March 7 with the presentation of Gwaai and Jaalen Edenshaw’s replica of a Haida artistic masterpiece known as “The Great Box”. With the aim of learning as much as possible about the original artist’s style and his use of formline, the two Read more…
Gaaw Xaad Kil: ‘iinang Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil: iinang Alaska Xaadas Kil: íinaang English: Pacific herring Latin: Clupea pallasii Glimmering phantoms rise, boiling the surface of the turbid sea. The iinang herring are scrambling toward the light in order to evade a family of sḵul Harbour porpoise, which herd them; the porpoises are Read more…
Gaaw Xaad Kil: Stan Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil: Stan English: Geoduck Latin: Panopea generosa Forty feet below the low tideline, a field of siphons tosses millions of eggs into the blurry summer waters of Haida Gwaii. The large, spawning stan, buried deep below the sand, are visible only by the small Read more…
CCGS Gordon Reid is a 49.9 metre offshore patrol vessel weighing 879 gross tons. Its four Deutz 628 engines can produce 4800 horsepower, propelling Gordon Reid to a maximum speed of 16.5 knots. The vessel was built for search-and-rescue service in North Vancouver in 1990. According to Captain Michael Shuckburgh, Read more…
Stretching 250 kilometres from north to south, Duuguusd/Daawuuxusda the west coast of Haida Gwaii is remote, jagged, and robust. Rocky pinnacles and battered reefs are neighbours to pocket beaches and sheltered sounds. Because it is exposed to weather systems from tang.g̱wan the Pacific Ocean, the coastline receives the brunt of Read more…
It seems like everyone is talking about linang herring these days. After an intense month negotiating the closure of the herring roe fishery in Haida waters, this spring saw large numbers of herring returning to spawn. Haida Fisheries project manager Brad Setso reports that the k’aaw in Skidegate Inlet has Read more…
Alaskan Xaadas Kil: K’ask’ud HlGaagilda Xaayda Kil: K‘ayda k’uuxawuu English: Harlequin Duck Latin: Histrionicus histrionicus K’ask’ud are distinguished by their mouse-like calls, but this is just a small part of a large repertoire of interesting calls that also includes a low grunting sound.K’ayda k’uuxawuu are equally unique in the range Read more…
Last week, as the disabled cargo ship Simushir drifted closer and closer to Haida Gwaii’s coastline, many Islands residents felt a growing sense of helplessness and frustration. Carrying 500 metric tonnes of bunker fuel and 60 metric tonnes of diesel fuel, as well as 94 metric tonnes of dangerous goods Read more…
The partially finished copy of the Great Box will return from Oxford on Friday the 10th of October. The new box, which is being carved and painted by brothers Gwaai and Jaalen Edenshaw, features skillful designs copied from the original masterpiece onto a new bentwood cedar box.The Edenshaws worked on Read more…
A ‘report card’ released by the David Suzuki Foundation has given Canada’s Marine Protected Areas network an ‘F’. The foundation said that “Canada is a very capable student with lots of potential” but that it “needs to show a greater commitment to completing homework assignments. There is concern that Canada Read more…