Creek: Goodbye Snauq and Mapping Workshop

creek: I invited artists to create works that spoke to this vision, according to Georgia Asian. Squamish Nation carver Wes Nahanee contributed a small woodblock. Do I dare say goodbye Lee Maracle from Goodbye Snauq In 2010, I organized a mapping workshop for the False Creek Watershed Society to call attention to what existed ecologically in this region not long ago and what we could imagine for our common future. The map of present-day False Creek inspired him to shape a salmon along the shoreline, but the landmass on the east side and the salmon's head were absent. In 1916, Vancouver's government initiated a project that brought countless wheelbarrows of soil excavated from the Grandview Cut to fill in the Flats. Nahanee's headless salmon was recalling the False Creek Flats the eastern third of the waterway which had been an intensely rich coastal wetland for millennia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.