
Former MLA @coraleeoakes joins @BarkervilleBC board of directors princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/cor…
Genevieve Weber
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Heritage professional/sometime archivist/archival instructor/with a focus on Indigenous rights and sovereignty

Former MLA @coraleeoakes joins @BarkervilleBC board of directors princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/cor…

Have you heard of the elasmosaur? In 1988, Mike Trask and his daughter Heather found the first elasmosaur fossil west of the Canadian Rockies along near Courtenay on Vancouver Island. In 2023 the elasmosaur became BC's official fossil: gov.bc.ca/ProvincialFoss…


Watch our new #HeritageMinute on Mary Riter Hamilton, who painted the battlefields after the First World War as a testament to its devastating cost. She would suffer mental and physical illnesses as a result of documenting the experiences of Canadian soldiers.

“No president has ever formally apologized for the forced removal of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children — an element of genocide as defined by the United Nations — or any other aspect of the U.S. government’s decimation of Indigenous peoples.” This is a huge shift in American Policy toward Indigenous Americans. One that has been in the making. Our Native Family is finally being recognized for their suffering and value to this nation. Good on Biden for being the one to finally do it.









Event: Saturday August 17, 2-4pm. CISV Victoria is hosting a Youth Meeting this month. At this camp, 32 delegate from 8 countries will be living together for 2 weeks, developing respect for cultural differences, identifying common values, and











