Catherine BabaultSunrise in Yuquot, on Nootka Island.
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Spirit of Yuquot expressed through bentwood box pinhole camera carving and film photos: https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-09-22/spirit-yuquot-expressed-through-bentwood-box-pinhole-camera-carving-and-film-photos
Real Syntacticthe #Yuquot #Nuuchahnulth #Mowachaht Whalers Shrine is home. It was sold and taken to NYC in the 1900s when village elders were away. I had the privilege of seeing the shipping crates in the Yuquot museum, the former Anglican Church, in July, but no one other than whalers should ever have had the privilege of seeing the shrine itself sand itβs likely that no one ever will again. Not a lot of good news in the world today, but this is very good. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-yuquot-whalers-shrine-repatriation-offers-hope/
Catherine BabaultTook this photo a few years ago in Yuquot. Sometimes we can find beautiful subjects at our feet.
Sending you a refreshing breeze from the Pacific Ocean.
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Chris AlemanyπΊπ¦π¨π¦πͺπΈGreat story and history here as the First Nation in Yuquot, the home and nation of Maquinna who first met Spanish colonizers in the 1700s on the West Coast of Canada restore a church building. It includes stained glass windows donated by the Government of Spain in the 1950s when this structure was built.
"It's a striking combination of elements, in a building that still wears the mark of a Euro-centric worldview. At the churchβs entrance are two stained glass windows that were donated by Spain in the 1950s, depicting Europeans in the centre as the local First Nations are in the darkened periphery.
βThese windows are now jarring remnants from a colonial past,β explained the First Nation on its website. βOne window shows representatives of Britain and Spain, Quadra and Vancouver, conferring about βsovereigntyβ over Nootka Sound in 1791.ββ
I visited this spot about 10 years ago. It's a wonderful journey from Gold River on the mail ship (Yuquot III I believe) to the island settlement. There is the Mowachaht/Muchahlaht First Nation village site, a lighthouse, and this church among other buildings and things. There is also a fantastic beach on the windward side. We were able to go inside the church. It was still fairly derelict when we were there, the restoration had not begun and the West Coast weather is very harsh.
Oh, and I must add. No treaty was signed with the Mowachaht/Muchahlaht Nation in Yuquot. These were two βgreat" colonizer nations stealing land from dozens of First Nations that had lived there for millenia, and still do.
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2023-09-08/gathering-place-past-restoration-yuquot-church-continues
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Sunset in Yuquot, Vancouver Island
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Sunrise in Yuquot on Nootka Island, land of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples.