The #FirstNation says the objects have come from former #Snuneymuxw communities that are now in downtown #Nanaimo, #DepartureBay, #GabriolaIsland, #Cedar, #DukePoint & #NanaimoRiver.

The Nation’s chief says there's big plans for all the art & #artifacts once the Nation #repatriates all of their #cultural pieces from #RoyalBCMuseum & other #museums from around the world that have Snuneymuxw artifacts.

https://www.cheknews.ca/snuneymuxw-first-nation-repatriates-nearly-100-items-from-the-royal-bc-museum-1205956/?amp

#Indigenous #Colonialism #VancouverIsland #PNW #repatriation #BCpoli

Heard just now on the tannoy: "You're on a ship that can sometimes move unexpectedly"

Yes, as in "drop the main anchor unexpectedly". That was last week's hiccough.

This week, as in today, waiting for the Duke Point boat to load at, let's guess now, Duke Point, heard the steam whistle over at Harmac mill blow 30 times in a row. Yes, I counted, I am like that.

Hope that all the workers are safe: they make the raw material for the spun-fibre innards of N95 masks.

#Harmac #DukePoint #Gabriola