Bowen Island Undercurrent September 30 2021

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Day for truth & Reconciliation WHAT’S HAPPENING ON-ISLAND

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THE NEXT CHAPTER: The health centre broke ground Tuesday morning with a land blessing and ceremonial

shovel photo. Board members and a couple of major donors got in on the six-handled shovel (courtesy of Bruce Russell).

Back row: Sheree Johnson, Paul Welsh, Brian Thomas-Peter, Dr. Clive Jones, Paul Stratford, Maija Tiesmaki; Front row: Navroz Bandali, Bill Brown, Tim Rhodes, Kathy Bellringer, Colleen O’Neil, Dr. Susanne Schloegl. Board members not pictured include Maria Turnbull, Greg Shepherd, Gordon Orlikow, Sandra Guarasc, Jennifer McGowan and Dr. Lloyd Purdy.

Bowen health centre building under way GROUND BREAKING CELEBRATION HELD SEPT. 28 BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Short minutes after health centre champions grasped the ends of the

glitzy but functionally useless fauxgold six-handled shovel Tuesday morning, the construction company project superintendent inconspicuously handed Tim Rhodes a contract.

After years of reports and planning, millions in fundraising and on the coattails of hundreds upon hundreds of volunteer hours, it’s time to build the Bowen Island Health Centre.

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Warning: There are distressing details about residential schools in this story.

Sept. 30 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. The federal government created the national day in June to honour the children forced to attend government-funded residential schools, where Indigenous children suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Thousands of children died in the schools, and the discoveries of unmarked graves near the former grounds of several institutions this year has sparked a renewed reckoning with Canada’s genocidal history. The day was created in response to Call to Action #80 in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report.

Former senator and chief commissioner of the TRC, Murray Sinclair, has compared marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to the way we mark Remembrance Day – making sure Canadians remember what the schools did to the kids and their families. (CBC’s Roseanna Deerchild interviewed the lawyer for the radio program Unreserved – shorturl.at/eiD27.)

On Bowen, there’s the Hummingbird Project. Brenda Morrison and Meribeth Deen are inviting islanders to 828 Hummingbird Lane starting at 10 a.m. Sept. 30 to make orange flags emblazoned with Dukdukdiya, the little humming bird from Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ ‘Flight of the Hummingbird.’ The Quechuan parable, which Yahgulanaas famously rewrote and illustrated a few years ago, shows the hummingbird doing what she can to put out a raging forest fire. “As so many of us feel overwhelmed and powerless as the horrors of residential schools mount alongside the bodies found in unmarked graves, the hummingbird urges us to take responsibility, and find a way to make a contribution – however small we may be,” wrote Deen in last week’s Undercurrent.

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Provide your feedback on the draft Community Economic Development Plan

Events October 4, 2021 7:00 pm

We’d like your feedback on the draft Community Economic Development (CED) Plan. This draft was compiled by H&K Consultant team, using research and inputs from the community during three phases of engagement over the spring and summer: Survey, Focus Groups, and Town Hall. These, combined with the ideas shared on Citizenlab, interviews and feedback, were used to draft the plan.

Advisory Planning Commission

October 6, 2021 11:00 am Environment and Climate Action Committee

September 30 marks Orange Shirt Day and the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Canadians are encouraged to wear orange to remember the Indigenous children who were sent to Residential Schools and never returned home as well as to honour the Survivors, their families, and their communities.

October 12, 2021 6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting All meetings are online via Zoom and

open to the public, unless noted otherwise.

Please note that Bowen Island Municipality is closed on Thursday, September 30th. We’re encouraging our staff to observe Truth and Reconciliation Day with activities such as:

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Creation of the CED Plan needs the active input and support of Bowen Island residents, businesses, and other community members.

Your participation is key to creating a relevant, sustainable, local community plan for Bowen Island.

www.bowenisland.citizenlab.co/

Wear an orange shirt, or pin an orange ribbon, orange scrap of fabric or paper to their shirt.

Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action booklet. We’ve provided a copy of the booklet to every staff member.

Learn about the history and creation of the residential school system virtually through the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation’s website: https://nctr.ca/education/ Learn Phyllis Webstad’s story and the origin of Orange Shirt Day: https://www.orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story.html

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Help stop COVID-19:

Please take a look and let us know what you think by commenting on Citizenlab. If you prefer to send your feedback anonymously, you can use a three-question survey.

It’s a day to recognize the legacy of Residential Schools, and the painful, ongoing impact it has had on generations of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. It is a day to honour both the Survivors and the many children lost forever. Listen to their stories, learn from them and let’s all walk this path forward together.

Notice of Permissive Tax Exemptions 2020-2023 PERMISSIVE TAX EXEMPTION BYLAW 493, 2019, AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 553, 2021

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Pursuant to Section 224 of the Community Charter, Bowen Island Municipal Council intends to adopt a bylaw amendment exempting from property taxation for the remaining two years, 2022 and 2023, the lands and/or improvements that are owned or held by charitable, philanthropic or other not-for-profit organizations and that Council considers are used for a purpose that is directly related to the purposes of the Corporation. The additional properties being considered at the October 12, 2021 Regular Council meeting and their estimated total property taxes that would otherwise be imposed if they were not exempt are: Municipal Other Tax 2020 Tax 2020

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LUB changes: ‘Hobby’car fixing divorced from home occupation automobile repair BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Two months after its last regular meeting, Bowen Island Municipal Council reconvened Monday evening. The following are briefs from that meeting.

What to do about land use: Council swept away its legislative cobwebs with the Land Use Bylaw amendments formerly known as “housekeeping.”

As the name would suggest, the LUB regulates use of land, buildings and structures in the municipality – ever been told you can’t build that extra garage? Move a school into a neighbourhood? That you need a variance for that addition that creeps just a foot too close to the lot line? That’s the LUB. BIM is in the process of the first substantial review of the LUB since its adoption in 2002 (when BIM was a barely hatched municipality). “The intent was not to make specific changes but to clarify intent behind regulation,” BIM’s manager of planning and development Daniel Martin, told the Undercurrent in July.

Some proposed changes are relatively minor – tweaking words here and there – other changes have wider implications.

The amendments have passed second reading and gone to public hearing.

Monday, Martin presented council with an overview of the more than 100 public comments regarding the bylaw, and gave options of how to address them. Councillors spent an hour parsing through and debating the suggestions before the bylaw comes forward

for third reading in a few weeks’ time.

The size and complexity of the bylaw was a point of contention for several islanders.

Martin presented the option of splitting the bylaw into five, but councillors opted to try to make bylaw 528 work.

The controversy over automobile repair as a home occupation wasn’t resolved. The proposed amendments in bylaw 528 would see commercial car repair limited to one car per property per month. The current bylaw allows for one car at a time, a loophole that has allowed a home occupation car repair shop to open on-island. The majority of the letters to BIM centred on this topic – most not in favour of the change. Coun.

Alison Morse said that when they drafted the bylaw, there was never an intent to allow home occupation automobile repair.

The community feedback showed that this is a larger issue, said Coun. Maureen Nicholson, and she doesn’t think that the one car per calendar month addresses it.

She proposed leaving the current LUB status quo. Councillors came to no agreement.

On the other hand, it was a quick and unanimous decision to remove “hobby” from the automobile repair home occupation section, ensuring that hobbyists are not held to the same requirements as commercial automobile shops (another major concern in the public comments). Councillors also opted to have Martin examine the definition of “derelict vehicle” so as to distinguish collectors’ cars from broken down cars left to rot.

A Cape Roger Curtis development permit

In Loving Memory of Adrien Fleet Gratton

area came to a split vote. The LUB lists environmental protection development permit restrictions for the cape but the restrictions aren’t enforceable as the permit area isn’t designated in the Official Community Plan.

Martin had proposed removing the section from the LUB but community comments suggested instead reinstating the section to the OCP. Martin noted that an island-wide environmentally sensitive areas DPA would probably align more with the OCP. CAO Liam Edwards noted that an OCP amendment is a major staff undertaking. In a four to three vote, council directed staff to leave the cape section in the LUB and start the OCP amendment process to add a development permit area for Cape Roger Curtis.

Morse, Ander and Coun. Michael Kaile voted against.

Council considered several other changes, including how covered walkways define buildings and definition of “domestic agriculture.”

Growing water connections: Twentythree connections to the Cove Bay Water System will infuse $754,951 into the indebted water system. Council passed three readings of a bylaw to expand the water system to include the new Grafton Lakelands development as well as the new water treatment plant (source of the aforementioned debt).

The Lakelands (John Reid’s development) is in the midst of the subdivision process to create 21 residential units: 11 separate family strata lots and 10 duplex units on one lot. Two of the new water connections are already existing residences.

Community gifts: A property owner in Bluewater has offered up a public trail easement over their land. The well-established but informal 650-metre stretch of trail connects Schooner Lane to Crown land and Schooner Lane to the Arbutus Ridge trail network, said a staff report. Bonny Brokenshire commended the property owners’ generosity in allowing the public use of the trail over the years. “However, the land that supports this vital trail is likely to be sold in the foreseeable future.

“Not proceeding with the easement at this time could be at the risk of losing the trail route for many years.”

The legal and surveying cost to the municipality to establish the easement is estimated at $5,000 to be funded from the parks operating budget.

On Evergreen Lane, another property owner offered up an easement around a small public viewpoint. The lot doesn’t have any buildings at the moment but the current owner worried that future owners may build hedges or structures that would obstruct the view from the bench in the little stretch of municipal parkland. “The proposed covenant restricts building or structures within the covenant area, or the planting of vegetation above a certain height,” said the staff report. While the covenant process was under way, the need for a development variance permit to modify setbacks was identified – the covenant was lumped in with the DVP process, indicated the staff report.

The DVP will be considered at council Oct. 25.

Death leaves a heartache that no one can heal.

Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

(Irish headstone)

October 2nd, 1992 - July 28th, 2021 Born in Prince George BC First nickname was ‘jetboat’ because if his hair that stuck straight up as a toddler, and this could have been due to riding in his dad’s jetboat as a young child.

He seemed fearless, climbing trees as a kid, jumping off high rocks into the water.

Adrien enjoyed sailing on his sailboat, he loved to scare the daylights out of anyone brave enough to sail with him. Adrien had many talents, he was a very gifted painter, painting abstract art that he could have made a handsome living on. He was an amazing cook, he loved gardening and could make bonsai trees. He was an arborist, and had over 100 fish at one time in his aquarium. He was so proud of his collection and how he could balance this little ecosystem.

Adrien was a loving family man. He fell in love with Hayley Elizabeth Haug, and had a son, Tyson-Jacob Haug-Gratton, born December 17th, 2020. He cared deeply for his family and wanted to be his best for them, and to live with them in Powell River. The last beautiful memories shared between Hayley and Adrien were in Powell River, where Adrien made little Tyson laugh for hours!

Adrien is survived by his loving girlfriend Hayley Elizabeth Haug, his son Tyson-Jacob Haug-Gratton, his parents Tom Gratton and Lenny Gagnon, sister Chrystal Gratton and fiancé; Tim Durrant and children Violet Jackson and Armand Durrant, grandparents Bob and Velda Parsons, Connie Gratton and many extended family members and friends.

Adrien has a unique and brilliant spirit so many people fell in love with. He lives on in all our hearts and memories, and now takes very good care of us as he is now our guardian angel. We will always carry on with love in our hearts for you Adrien.

It is with heavy vyy hearts that we announce the unexpected passing of Cameron William Bjorn McKay on Augu gust u 2, 2021 (B. December 22, 1980) He was the dearly beloved son of Andrea and Harry McKay and cherished father of Patrick and Sean. He will be greatly missed by his brother Andrew, sister in law Noemie and nephew Matthias as well as the mother of his children, Elizabeth. His aunts, uncles, cousins and a myriad of friends will miss him deeply.

Cameron’s greatest accomplishments are seen in his two boys. He instilled his love of nature in many, especially his children and this will live on in their daily lives. Camping trips, hikes, adventures and finding perfect swimming holes were all part of Cameron’s repertoire, as was continuing the tradition of reading novels around the campfire.

Cameron was strong, loyal and determined.

He had a delightful sense of humour and was quick to laugh. His laughter was golden.

His travels included Iceland, Mexico, Loa and Canada from coast to coast.

He was most proud of his Icelandic and Scottish heritage.

And he gave the best hugs.

Thanks, Big Guy, you will be forever in our hearts For now due to an abundance of caution in these times, the family will hold a private service.

In Cameron’s memory, should you wish, donations to the boy’s future educational endeavours would be greatly appreciated. (RESP) Please feel free to contact Ross McCorquodale at 604-947-0411 for contribution information.

To the community of Bowen Island Thank you to all those who have reached out with friendship, food, support and well wishes.

Your TLC could not be more appreciated.

McKay Family

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VIEWPOINTS A NOTE

I know many will likely read this paper after Sept. 30, or after many of the events have passed. But the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation needs to be part of a much, much bigger conversation we’re having daily with ourselves, our families, our communities and beyond.

It’s cliché – the barest minimum – these days to suggest reading the 94 Calls to Action of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s final report (bit.ly/3zR7U3x) but that is at least one thing we adults should all be doing this Thursday.

Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

SARAH HAXBY PHOTO

There are only two more Farmers’Markets: Oct. 2 and Oct. 9 at Bowen Island Community School, 10 a.m. to noon. Stock up on the abundance of Bowen grown produce and an array of artisan wares of things made, baked and grown on Bowen. Shopping local is always in good taste!

Sarah Haxby

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Pharmacy kudos

DEAR EDITOR: My wife and I are visiting our favourite island. My wife Leanne, realized upon arriving here that she forgot her medications. We called Cates Pharmacy to see if they could give us a few days of medication until we got back home. They went on and above to help her out. A big shout to to the staff for their generosity. They make Bowen proud!

Ron and Leanne Paley Maple Ridge, B

BILL GRANGER PHOTO

Bill Granger sent in this lovely photo of a late summer’s sunset a few weeks ago. The weather has since decidedly turned to fall with days of rain in the forecast.

Kids from 9 to 12 invited to enter the scary story contest Do you like to write? Enter the scary story contest for kids ages nine to 12.

There are two categories: nine to 10 year olds and 11 to 12 year olds.

Stories are to be between 300 and 500 words and submitted to canadascarystorycontest@gmail.com by Oct. 31. Please include your age and your name upon submission.

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‘They belong here’: In support of the stewards of Riley’s Cidery

DEAR EDITOR: Stewardship: Noun; the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.

We are all stewards in some way ... we guard and protect what is of value to us – or another – so that it may live on and benefit others in days or years to come. We guard kids, pets, friends, collections, historical items, etc. Some serve smaller interests while others protect on a larger scale…the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway for instance. One thousand three hundred kilometres beyond the Arctic Circle, in the permafrost, is a massive collection of seeds for more than 4,000 plant species sent there from across our globe to be stored for safekeeping in secure, cold, dry rock vaults. This enterprise is conducted on Norwegian soil for the benefit and survival of all humankind. It is not the sole repository for seed - the seeds kept there are duplicates of seed sample stores in national, regional and international gene banks and this is good news…one shouldn’t keep all their seeds in one basket. We know this.

Seeds…dormant embryos… cloning machines…you plant one and you get more of what it came from. So one would think.

But there’s a glitch…this miraculous event is not always reliable… apples will explain what I mean.

Slice open a Delicious apple and after you extract, germinate, plant and harvest the fruit of every seed you found within that apple you will find that it isn’t…delicious that

is. Dollars to spartans it will be sour and nothing like its parent.

And this is why so many enterprises formed in the wake of Johnny Appleseed’s journey throughout the eastern United States. The sour apples of his nurseries – although they couldn’t be eaten pleasantly – could be transformed, by cideries, into a palatable and delightful liquid – apple cider.

So what’s the problem with the recalcitrant apple seeds? God only knows…but man figured out how to get around this unfortunate glitch when he/she/they discovered… grafting. A Pink Lady apple will continue to be a Pink Lady if you ignore her Pink Lady seed and remove a budded branch of her Pink Lady tree and graft it onto, from what I understand, any ‘ol apple tree. The Pink Lady will retain her integrity, her fine taste, her exquisite flesh (while retaining her dignity) and universal appeal– all through the act of grafting… an endeavour that demands slightly more man hours than germinating and planting a seed. It is this endeavour one might call ‘stewardship.’

An example of ‘Apple Stewardship’ (thank me for this moniker) can be found in Yoncalla, Oregon where Nick Botner and his wife Carla have collected different fruit tree varieties for over 30 years resulting in over 4,500 heirloom and rare cultivars, the largest private collection of apple trees in the United States. But the Botners are getting old, and in the spirit of true

Apple Stewards they gave the TOC (and a source of collective pride) (Temperate Orchard Conservancy simply because it exists…here. project) permission to clone their Like the Botner farm in Oregon, collection so that it might live on Bowen’s John and Josephine Riley and be preserved in living form… initiated their orchard 30 years ago as one must do with apples… and continued to develop their because seeds, as we now know, collection until it became what are hit and miss when it comes to it is today: an orchard boasting edible fruit. The whole reason TOC nearly 1,000 distinct varieties of formed was due to the impend- apples, the largest in all of Canada. ing loss of the Botner’s farm, a But, like the Botners, aging dicfarm that was long tated that John and perceived as being of Josephine pass on such value that to lose “In the end both their stewardship. it was unthinkable.

And pass it on “In January 2011, planet and people they did – to capawe began collectble new stewards, prosper and ing scions and graftChristine Hardy ing trees. Since then, and Rob Purdy – benefit.” each winter we have capable because –Peter McLean collected more sciChristine previousons and each spring ly took an interest we have grafted, and in sustainable agrigrafted and grafted. So culture enough far, 4,400 baby trees have survived to study it and equally capable and been planted in the Marion because Rob has an accounting Dunlap Block (the nursery) at background, an asset that is cerAlmaty Farm. Another 1,300+ are tain to ensure this challenging in one-gallon pots, under shade enterprise will stay afloat…that cloth, getting lots of TLC),” as tem- skill along with his willingness to perateorchardconservancy.org provide what it takes to deal with states. physical gruntwork. (It should also That enterprise sounds like a be noted that Christine remains in lot of work, doesn’t it? You bet- touch with John so that she might cha. Sound familiar? For those of absorb and adopt a thorough you that know where I’m going knowledge of the orchard that took with this please bear with me as him 30 years to establish).

I explain to the others: we have…

You may have noticed that I here on Bowen Island…a similar have used the word ‘enterprise’ enterprise…somewhat smaller in throughout this missive. That scope (but equivalent in mean- is because, within the minds of ing)…an enterprise that should be you readers that made it this far, of value to our entire community I wanted the word to be firm-

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ly associated with apples, cider, Christine, Rob, grafting, orchards and Riley’s Cidery… before I dared mention the word ‘business.’ That is because many enterprises, in order to succeed, are reliant upon volunteers in lieu of financial support. That is because, in all worthy cases, an enterprise of value warrants such support. Perhaps, in the context of humankind, comparing the Norway seed depository to Riley’s Cidery is a tad lofty for some of you, but in the context of what is behind the Cidery’s existence – preservation of apple species through what is sure to be continued grafting so that such tasty beauties might continue to exist on Earth – I would argue the lofty assertion. The existence of the Riley orchard (as an enterprise) supports the existence of the Cidery (as a business), and the Cidery (as a business) supports the orchard (as an enterprise).

Symbiosis. In the end both planet and people prosper and benefit.

It is my hope that Riley’s Cidery prospers. It is my promise that I will lie down before any tour bus that tries to gain entry. It is my expectation that, as I lie there, (although I do not know them personally...yet) I will find Rob and Christine on either side of me.

And… it is my vision that our community will honour and support Riley’s unique and magical cidery enterprise on this special rock we call home. They belong here.

Peter McLean

Queen of Capilano Ferry Schedule September 7 to October 11 2021

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Contemplating how to observe Truth and Reconciliation Day the thoughts around, ‘How do we get to the truth?’” he said.

“And empowering everyone — Indigenous and not — to let them know that everyone has a role.”

Indeed, it’s a question that a lot of people will have to ponder as Canada marks its newest holiday for the first time.

It’s a tricky endeavour, as Truth and Reconciliation Day was declared recently: it received royal assent on June 3.

“The federal government kind of sprung this on us very suddenly,” said Lewis. “So I feel like everybody is scrambling to say, ‘What do we do?’”

He noted the Nation will have its own event that day.

A downtown Squamish Truth And Reconciliation Commemoration event at O’Siyam pavilion will take place from1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The event will be used to honour those who attended residential schools — both survivors and those who didn’t make it back.

STEVEN CHUA

Squamish Chief

For Squamish Nation member Chris Lewis (Syetaxtn, the first annual Truth and Reconciliation Day will be a time to reflect.

“I’m going to spend this day with family and friends and just kind of continue to talk about it — continue to have those discussions,” said Lewis, who is a former councillor and spokesperson for the Nation.

In this case, he was speaking regarding his personal views, not those of the Nation.

In addition to observing the day itself, Lewis will be spending time educating organizations about what it means.

“I’m going to spend a week reflecting on the day and educating folks around the thoughts around reconciliation,

The Pier on Bowen

You are invited to a public information and dialogue session about the Pier Saturday October 23, 2021 10:00am to Noon at the Pier Soon after the new and current owners bought the Pier (which includes the Marina, the adjacent residence, as well as the small buildings on the Pier itself) from Norma Dallas, the municipality advised there are a few things that don’t currently comply with the municipality’s zoning requirements: • The secondary suites in the house right above the Pier • The gift shop attached to Branch Taco Shop • The washroom next to Tell Your Friends Also, the zoning currently does not permit outdoor seating for patrons of these shops.

The owners are applying for re-zoning to make sure everything currently in use complies with the muni’s requirements.

They would also like to use this re-zoning application process as an opportunity to see if there is anything else the community would like to see at the Pier.

Are there other uses the owners should consider for the future? What do you like about Pier as it is now? What suggestions do you have for improving or adding to this special spot on Bowen? What concerns, hopes, or issues would you like them to know about?

We’d love your input. You can contact either Jonathan Grimble, Bowen Island Marina / Pier Ph: 604 453-4834 Email: jong@carreramc.com jong@carreramc.com c/o 375 Cardena Road, Bowen Island BC, V0N 1G0

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Lewis said that it would be good for everyone to honour that moment in their own way and he challenged people to think of how to best mark the day next year.

Indeed, the response to the holiday has been somewhat scattered.

Not all provinces have recognized the federal mandate, and, as a result, many people in the private sector do not have the day off. B.C. has not recognized Sept. 30 as a statutory holiday.

In a press conference, B.C.’s Indigenous relations minister, Murray Rankin, said that the province is in discussions as to whether it will follow the lead of the federal government.

“Consultations with the broader private sector are ongoing as we speak, and there will no doubt be announcements made over the next while as to how that unfolds in this province,” said Rankin.

He was speaking on Sept. 27, when the province announced that it had decided that $1.5 million previously earmarked for the province’s Residential School Response Fund would go toward mental health support.

This includes money for the Indian Residential School Survivors Society support line, the Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society and the Métis Counselling Connection Program.

Lewis said the federal government’s royal assent of the day is a good first step, but provinces should also take it upon themselves to recognize the occasion.

“I think it’s incumbent on all levels of government to recognize this national day and to give all employees the day, just like what we do with other national statutory days or holidays,” he said. “To give that day so people can start learning.”

As for suggestions of how people could honour the day, Lewis said that one way would be to look at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action.

“Pick one that jumps out at you, whatever it is,” said Lewis. “Pick one and be a champion and be an advocate for that one call to action. Whatever touches your heart. And if that means learning more, then learn more. That’s what I’d encourage everyone to do.”

SFU assistant professor Lyana Patrick, who is Dakelh from the Stellat’en First Nation, said creating a holiday is a step in the right direction.

“It’s one step in a lot of steps that need to be taken with this history and the fact that, of course, it continues to reverberate today,” said Patrick.

There are several things that people can do to mark the occasion, she said. A number of university campuses, like the one where Patrick works, have events that day. For those who do not have a community event happening in their area, Patrick said that an easy way to get informed about the history is to find films that Indigenous creators make.

Anything from documentaries, to works of fiction can be helpful. “There’s a whole bunch of Indigenous creators who are contributing to our knowledge of this history,” said Patrick, who herself is a filmmaker.

She recently turned heads with her animated documentary short film entitled, The Train Station, which deals with her family’s history with residential schools. This year, it was featured by the American Film Institute.

Another thing is to find out whose territory you reside on, and figuring out the Indigenous stories, history, and names of places in that language, Patrick said. “Even by going outside and just getting to know territories, the land that you are on, and seeing that there are other names for places, that there are other stories other than the ones that are common-

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Morrison and Deen are hoping islanders can make 94 flags – one for each of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action – to put up around the island.

The organizers request attendees bring their own blankets and chairs. “We will wrap up following a live broadcast from the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation at 2:15 p.m., when we will learn to sing and drum a traditional honour song for the 215 unmarked graves of children,” said a Facebook post. “You are welcome to bring your drum.”

At the Bowen Library, there is a Reading for Reconciliation event, inviting islanders to come by and pick up free children’s books to learn about Indigenous culture and history (When We Were Alone by David Robertson and Stolen Words by Melanie Florence). There will also be Truth & Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action booklets available. This is happening between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

While the province hasn’t recognized Sept. 30 as a statutory holiday, several island organizations and businesses are marking the day by closing. Bowen Island Municipality will be closed for the day and is encouraging its staff to mark the day by wearing orange, reading provided TRC’s calls to action booklets and learning about the history and creation of the residential school system.

Both Island Pacific School and Bowen Island Community School will be closed Sept. 30.

IPS told caregivers to expect reflection activities to be completed on the day off.

Both schools acknowledged Orange Shirt Day, usually observed on Sept. 30, on Sept.

29. Orange Shirt Day is named for the brand new orange shirt author Phyllis Webstad wore and had taken from her as a six-yearold on her first day at a residential school.

Local schools have observed the day for the past few years.

One of the challenges for schools is how to address residential schools – agents of colonialism and genocide perpetrated against kids – with kids.

BICS has an Indigenous Education Committee made up of eight staff members and eight parents. The group is not only meant to support teachers with learning happening in classrooms but also supporting families engaging in truth and reconciliation. With an age range of four to twelve in the school, the levels of understanding for students vary greatly. “Some things are probably most effectively done almost on a one to one basis just because of that fact,” said principal Scott Slater.

“Even though the concept of every child matters is pretty unifying…in terms of getting into the details of residential school experience, that’s something four-year-olds don’t necessarily need to learn from their school setting. Parents may make a decision to do more of that learning at home.”

For kids from kindergarten to grade three, teaching centres on inclusivity – “how we interact with each other, and how we show each other that every person matters.”

It’s in grades four and five that the curriculum delves into colonialism and residential

schools, not just on Sept. 30. “[It’s] certainly not a day of learning. It’s not a week of learning. It’s several weeks of learning tied into the broader colonization of Canada.”

While colonization isn’t a key feature of the curriculum in grades six and seven, there are opportunities to look at the concept of cultural genocide “how there were deliberate efforts from the Canadian government and other organizations to eliminate Indigenous cultures, whether that be through the Indian Residential School system or banning potlaches and other aspects of culture.”

Over the past year, there have been many shocking – but not necessarily surprising – events and discoveries said Slater and there are many news stories that they try and respond to. “They’re of such significance that you really need to be more strategic about it,” he said, “so that when the discovery of bodies happens, it’s not the entry point to the conversation. “[So that] most students who would be aware of that news are already familiar with residential schools, are familiar with the fact that in those schools, not every child mattered.”

“These are not things that you learn about on Sunday night, and then teach about on Monday morning, these are things that take a long time for students to understand and practice.

Slater remembers telling staff to be very careful with information – it could be particularly triggering to students.

Another key message to students was that we’re still learning about the horrors of residential schools. “That’s why it’s truth and reconciliation. There’s still truth that needs to be understood.”

Ahead of Sept. 30, Slater shared a virtual presentation with resources for families. The presentation lists books, articles, podcasts, videos for children learning about residential schools as well as for adults, curated by the Indigenous Education Committee. The presentation also lists events on Bowen, in Vancouver and online happening Sept. 30.

Families of BICS students are welcomed to paint a rock orange and leave it at the BICS Welcome Pole to recognize the deaths of children at residential schools. “Just to physically be out of the house and to kind of go somewhere is a mindful practice,” said Slater. “Even if they’re simple events, like placing a rock at the Welcome Pole, they just create that space for some reflection.”

There’s also a digital community for BICS students and parents to add their personal commitments for truth and reconciliation.

Some of the resources shared for students include: The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad; Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith; and Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. For adults: the TRC final report; Where are the Children: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools; and the CBC podcast about decolonizing our minds – Telling our Twisted Histories.

The 24-hour Indian Residential School Crisis Line number is 1-866-925-4419.

–With files from Roxanne Egan-Elliott/ Times Colonist

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Get to know your neighbours MEET: ASHLEIGH & KANE MURRAY

When did you come to Bowen?

We came to Bowen from Cloverdale in May of 2018 with our four-year-old son and our dog.

How did you come to be here?

We spent our first weekend on Bowen in 2014, when our oldest son was about a year and a half old.

We stayed in a beautiful cottage over on Eaglecliff and watched the sunrises, the ferry going past, enjoyed the beaches and trails and that was when we decided that this would be a great place to raise our family.

I had also felt a connection to Bowen, as my grandparents used to have a cottage here and my dad spent summers here as a child. At the time, we were partway through renovating our home and weren’t quite ready to make the move.

Fast forward a few years and we started coming over to look at houses and lots for sale – every time we came over it totally poured with rain.

Even so, we kept coming back and we fell in love with a forested lot with a beautiful twisted stump… we were looking to move closer to the water, nature and community, and so, in early 2018 we decided we were ready to take the leap.

We purchased the lot and built our home and were also blessed to have our second baby that year.

Another factor was that we had planned for our son to start school with IDLC in Surrey, so it worked out well that he got to start his kindergarten year here on Bowen with IDLC. Where on Bowen do you live?

King Edward Bay

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Bob Baker (S7aplek) and the Eagle Song Dancers of the Squamish Nation do the land blessing for the new Bowen Island Health Centre Sept. 28.

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Where’s your favourite place on Bowen?

Hard to pick just one, we feel so lucky to live in such a beautiful place, any beach or trail with a view.

What’s your favourite Bowen fact or story?

Again, it’s tough to pick just one, but what always seems to get me is how people really help each other out here.

Every time I hear a story of someone helping someone, or Bowen stepping up as a community to help, it puts a big smile on my face.

We appreciated the meal train SO much when we had our second baby and that was the first time we had ever heard of something like that…just really makes us so happy to live in such a place!

What’s something Bowen Islanders have in common?

Love of nature and outdoorsy stuff- also living in a smaller community.

What do you do for fun these days?

Hiking together and obstacle courses in our yard.

Launching the health centre’s next chapter

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BIHCF VP Colleen O’Neil & president Tim Rhodes.

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Tears, relief, optimism rampant at health centre ground breaking CONTINUED FROM P. 1

The rains held off so as to not soak the gathered crowd of officials, donors, board members and community members gathered for the Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation (BIHCF) land blessing and ground breaking ceremony Sept. 28. (And good thing too – the health centre is not yet built to care for their colds.)

The 10,000 square-foot centre on Miller Road – to house primary care, visiting specialists, allied health services, dental services and more – is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2023.

Bob Baker (S7aplek) and the Eagle Song Dancers of the Squamish Nation did the land blessing, using cedar boughs to collect any negativity – “to make sure that all of us are going to be on the same page when we move forward,” S7aplek told the crowd.

Rhodes, president of the foundation, acted as master of ceremonies to the jubilant affair.

“During the last five years, the board could double as a training point for Olympic hurdles,” he told the crowd, going on to thank the donors, citizens, businesses and community organizations for their support.

B.C. Minister of Health Adrian Dix had been tentatively sched-

uled to attend and announce the province contributed $1 million to the foundation’s fundraising effort. Dix had to send his regrets but made the announcement in a press release. “People living on Bowen Island deserve to access the health care they need when they need it close to home,” said Dix in the release. “The centre will give residents better access to team-based and comprehensive health care where they live.” (This is not a new $1 million, the foundation announced last year it had received the funding from an anonymous donor – the press release unveiled the anonymous donor.)

But Tuesday’s ceremony was far from a mere photo-op.

Diane Marshall, sitting in a front-row seat, wiped away tears. “My heart is so full of what this means for the island,” said Marshall. “It goes back a long time, a dream that I would say Colleen [O’Neil] and I between us developed.” The former member of the Caring Circle board was part of a crew of Bowen Islanders who visited Gabriola Island’s health centre a few years back, the other island’s centre providing proof-of-concept for a Bowen iteration. Pre-centre, two thirds of Gabriola residents went off-island for primary care.

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Post-centre, 87 per cent of resi- helped raise $5 million, thinks dents were receiving primary care of the health centre, she doesn’t on-island. think of the emergencies like heart The Marshalls have since moved attacks, strokes, but of people like off-island but returned for the the visitor with a wickedly sore reunion of health centre conspir- throat who had to spend hours at ators.

Lions Gate for a simple strep throat Conspirators like Colleen swab. “It’s those kind of urgent O’Neil, vice president of the health care things that wreck peofoundation, program director of ple’s weekends,” said O’Neil after the Caring Circle, and the ceremony.

– importantly – mem“Because they’re “How much work in town all day ber of BIHCF’s two-person fundraising com- the board has put for something mittee (along with Bill that just requires Brown). “Every donor into this will never somebody lookwe’ve talked to over the ing in your throat ever be seen, like doing the swab. years has had a story of frustration and anx“Or you’re sick truly seen” iety around getting the at home, you feel health care they need terrible, and you –Kathryn Thomson in a timely fashion,” she don’t want to get told the crowd. in the car, so you O’Neil pulled a don’t. And then couple of donors to the stage to your health gets worse.” explain their reasons for donating.

Mayor Gary Ander told the Kathy Bellringer spoke of the com- crowd of the mother who called fort factor of her young grandchil- him up with the common frustradren having ready access to health tion of why there is no COVID-19 care and the economic benefits of testing on Bowen. “[Her] young the island having a health centre. daughter was in school, and she Navroz Bandali said that Bowen sneezed a couple of times and is a special place and spoke of the so there was a phone call home, necessity of the island having a ‘You’ve got to come and pick up robust health services for the com- your daughter and she’s got to be munity’s well-being. tested for COVID before she can When O’Neil, the woman who return.’” Mother and daughter

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would have to do the hours-consuming trip to the mainland for the tests as there’s no testing capacity on Bowen. “[The health centre] will be a huge part of the complete healthy community matrix and give Bowen Island more independence,” said Ander, “and take us one step further from being the dreaded bedroom community of the big smoke next door.”

“It’s been a long time coming,” said Sheree Johnson, another long-time BIHCF board member.

“I know all of us that have been working on it are extraordinarily proud.”

The ceremony brought relief to an emotional Johnson, “To work so hard and not know whether it’s going to come or not…”

“How much work the board has put into this will never ever be seen, like truly seen,” community member Kathryn Thomson added (she’s not on the board).

Dan Park of Salal Architecture (and Thomson’s husband) had the task of designing the health centre. Shying from the mic after the ceremony, Park said to wait until the centre gets built – “You’ll walk through it and it’ll be a great building,” he said. “That’s not because I designed it, it’s because everybody designed it.”

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