Huu-ay-aht First Nations

During the emergency, both the city and regional district operated from their shared Emergency Operations Center, working together on evacuation orders, alerts, and recovery efforts, which included dealing with road closures on Road and a power outage impacting communities like Bamfield and Ahnaqlah.

Officials say open communication was crucial throughout the response, and this artwork, created by Victoria Nookemis of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, recognizes all the individuals and organizations that contributed to the firefighting effort.

The Tiel-Witsis Nation held a significant ceremony this past Tuesday marking the opening of Nenagwets, a new community south of Campbell River.

Nenagwets, meaning a place to come home to, represents a homecoming for the people after decades of displacement from their original village on Turner Island in the nineteen sixties.

But I will point out this, um, in terms of the Nisga'a, in terms of the Mono.

Uh, I just had a chat with the chief of the, the Huu-ay-aht First Nation, uh, uh, earlier today.

Uh, the Tsawwassen.

Look, get on a ferry in, in Tsawwassen and look at the success, uh, that is manifest, uh, in the Tsawwassen First Nation.