23 Jan Treaties changing history, one fishing hole at a time (The Globe and Mail)
Archie Charles has been fishing in the Fraser Canyon since the 1920s. As a boy, he journeyed 50 kilometres from Seabird Island up the Fraser River in a cedar dugout canoe. Last year, the 87-year-old grand chief of the Sto:lo travelled by car to his family’s fishing camp. The old dip nets have been upgraded, but every July he still wind-dries his catch on the riverbank. Unsettled land claims never stopped him, but as the Yale First Nation prepares to initial a treaty, the future of his favourite fishing hole is in doubt… go to article