Elder Qaamina Hunter used to visit Tofino two or three times a week, but those visits have spanned out, he says, due to parking woes.

Hunter lives in the offshore Ahousaht First Nations community of Maaqtusiis on Flores Island, located 30-minutes by boat from Tofino’s First Street Dock.

On July 26 the House of Huu-ay-aht filled with the First Nation’s members and guests, celebrating 25 years since the longhouse was built in Anacla.

After a 7:30 a.m. push off from Long Beach on July 23, three Ahousaht canoes and one Hesquiaht canoe cruised into the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ (Ucluelet First Nation) community of Hitacu around 1 p.m.

On their way to Hitacu Hesquiaht skipper Vince Ambrose said his crew of mostly women hugged the shoreline while the other Ahousaht canoes went offshore.

“It was easy pulling. There was no wind. The ocean was pretty calm,” said Ambrose on day four of a 12-day canoe journey.

Losing her father in early 2022, Amanda Large thought the grieving process was behind her - until disturbing news came from the BC Coroners Service last year. 

Philip Peter Billy’s brain had been misplaced, and was sitting in the back of a fridge at Victoria’s Royal Jubilee Hospital until it was found more than two years after his death, according to correspondence Large had with the Coroners Service.

There’s a lull on Saturday morning and Ben Howells finds himself with time to be loquacious. 

He’s relaxed after the game of “human Tetris” his crew played to negotiate over 700 festivalgoers plus roughly 150 volunteers into Huu-ay-aht’s Pachena Bay Campground was completed early Friday evening. 

Moreover, he shared that whales swam into the bay on Thursday afternoon during his own DJ performance, which stirred a feeling of significance. 

In the early morning of Sunday, July 20, a Canadian crew of mostly Indigenous women will push off from the shores of Hesquiaht Harbour, marking the start of their roughly 350-kilometre Paddle to Elwha 2025 Canoe Journey.

Navigating the highway of their ancestors, the Hesquiaht First Nation’s crew of eight expects to land on the shores of the Elwha Klallam Tribe on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, U.S.A. on July 31. 

The economic arm of a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation is now calling the shots at its headquarters.

That’s because Tiičma Enterprises recently purchased the Campbell River building which had been serving as the home for the group of businesses as well as the administrative offices of the Ka:'yu:'k't'h'/Che:k'tles7et'h' First Nations (KCFN).

Tiičma Enterprises owns a number of businesses in various industries including forestry, fisheries, aquaculture, hospitality, tourism, property management and management services.