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Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca
Hurt and disappointed – that’s how Qayqayt First Nation Chief Rhonda Larrabee said she felt after attending Monday night’s city council meeting. On Monday, council considered a motion by Coun. Chuck Puchmayr to ask Metro Vancouver to rename Sapperton Landing Park as Qayqayt Landing
Park. Council, however, opposed the motion, preferring to consider the idea within the context of the work the city’s doing around reconciliation. “If they had voted yes, it would have said to me that they were on the path to reconciliation and were reaching out to Qayqayt by acknowledging that yes, they see me,” Larrabee said. “It wasn’t the point of the park in the end, it was the point of the relationship I
thought we had.” Larrabee said the proposal still had to be considered by Metro Vancouver. “That is where our village was. There were 400 who were on the banks of the river,” she told the Record Tuesday. “Actually, in 1859 it was mayor and council who said they wanted that village of Qayqayt people moved out of the city limits because they were being named the capital of the
Colony of B.C.That also struck me last night that this was mayor and council again – from 1859 to 2019.” Larrabee said council’s support for the motion would have been a “gesture” that meant so much to Qayqayt, even if the idea was rejected by Metro Vancouver. “I was very surprised that the opinions that they voiced about speaking with the truth and reconciliation committee that they
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have,” she said. “This committee has not reached out to Qayqayt. Why haven’t they spoken to me?” Puchmayr said he was “a little bit surprised” that council wasn’t more supportive of the motion, even after he amended it to approve the idea in principle, to engage with Larrabee and the Qayqayt and to start the process of presenting the idea to Metro Vancouver. Continued on page 3
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