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Montague Harbour.

some woven cedar cooking baskets, live
coals wrapped in leaves, digging tools, and
bows and arrows, and some dried food for
the journey. Choosing their tides, they
could travel five or six knots. The
Hul'qumi'num owned many canoes, some
of them small for river use. A canoe was
not just utilitarian, but an object of beauty
and pride. Each canoe was carved out of a
single cedar log. The carver placed coals
down the length of the log, then chipped
out the resulting charcoal with bone or
stone tools. He carved the prow with
designs that identified his family, and then
painted it with berry juice, animal blood,
and charcoal. Then the canoe was named
- Seal or Salmon or Thunderbird. The
symbolism carved into its bow connected
the First Nations owner to the physical
and spirit worlds. As he and his family paddled into Montague Harbour, sitting in the
graceful craft he'd carved with his own
hands, they must have felt at one with
their world.

No one knows how many families summered on Galiano Island, digging for mollusks, fishing for crabs and hunting birds
and small mammals. The First Nations
paddled south from Penelekut Island every

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year to Galiano to harvest clams.
Many Elders of the Penelekut Island
Hul'qumi'num First Nations say they
began with an ancestor named Stutsun
who was one of twelve people who fell
from the sky. Stutsun fell onto the mountain overlooking the Chemainus River
Delta. Others emerged from the earth,
but the first people taught their children
the potlatch and how to encounter the
spirits that live in fresh water. The
Hul'qumi'num people prowled lightly on
the face of the world from Penelekut
Island to the Fraser River on their seasonal food-foraging routes, trading with
neighbours and visiting with kinship
groups as they travelled.
Because they intended to return to
their seasonal camps many times over
their lifetime, they left them much as
they'd found them. Their bark cookingvessels are gone, and their pole and vegetation summer dwellings have rotted
away. All that is left of our early First
Nations on Galiano Island are middens
and a legend or two, as well as descendants who still respect the old ways.
Nobody knows what our early First
Nations thought and how their rituals,
songs, and art reflected their view of the
world. Even today, the big house ceremonies are too sacred to reveal to outsiders. We do know that, based on caste,
some people who died were laid out in

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Canadian Yachting December 2017

Vantage Point: Little Boat, Big Boat – Where Did You Start?
Club Profile: Gimli Yacht Club
Galley Guys: The Galley Guys Travel to Newfoundland
Travel Destinations: The Middens of Galiano Island
Profile of a Cruising Family: Redefining the Face of Yachting in Canada
Marine Electronics: Special Feature – A Guide to Maritime VHF Radio for Pleasure Craft
Marine Electronics: Special Feature – AIS - Peering Atop Islands and Around Bends
The Port Hole
Marine Electronics: Special Feature – WiFi Boosters
Sail Review: Dehler 38
Power Review: Cruisers Yachts Cantius 50
Power Review: Jeanneau NC 895
Summer Event Coverage: Poker Run 101
Crossing the Line: Flying Dutchman
Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Cover1
Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Cover2
Canadian Yachting December 2017 - 3
Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Vantage Point: Little Boat, Big Boat – Where Did You Start?
Canadian Yachting December 2017 - 5
Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Club Profile: Gimli Yacht Club
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Galley Guys: The Galley Guys Travel to Newfoundland
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Travel Destinations: The Middens of Galiano Island
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Profile of a Cruising Family: Redefining the Face of Yachting in Canada
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Marine Electronics: Special Feature – A Guide to Maritime VHF Radio for Pleasure Craft
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Marine Electronics: Special Feature – AIS - Peering Atop Islands and Around Bends
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - The Port Hole
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Marine Electronics: Special Feature – WiFi Boosters
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Sail Review: Dehler 38
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Power Review: Cruisers Yachts Cantius 50
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Power Review: Jeanneau NC 895
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Canadian Yachting December 2017 - Summer Event Coverage: Poker Run 101
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