[BCMA] Squamish Olympic Spirit Alive and Well

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 25, 2010

 

SQUAMISH SPIRIT AND CULTURE COME TO LIFE AT BRENNAN PARK

 

During the Olympics, the Squamish Spirit Centre (AKA the Brennan Park 
Recreation Centre, 1009 Centennial Way) will host the Squamish 
Historical Society, the Squamish Nation and the Squamish Writers Group 
to give locals and visitors a taste of Squamish Culture from February 
12^th until February 28^th 2010.

 

The Squamish Historical Society will be showcasing displays of 
transportation milestones which opened up our community year by year and 
kilometer by kilometer to the world.  Photographic displays will include 
the ocean journey by European pioneers to Squamish in the late 1800's 
until the first highway was built; another will trace the opening of the 
1958 Seaview highway until its present upgrade to the Sea-to-Sky Highway 
Improvement Project. Newspaper articles and images will chronicle a time 
in Squamish's history when a road was proposed in the 40's and 50's to 
improve  transport to Mount Garibaldi and its internationally acclaimed 
outdoor recreation while in the 1960's a town up a rocky road north to a 
town called Whistler held Olympic aspirations.

 

In the sporting down time, Squamish Historical Society original films 
played on the big screen will be:

 

   1. Brackendale Then and Now
   2. First People of the Pacific Northwest
   3. Squamish Nation: Stories from the Heart
   4. The West Coast Logging Life
       and a couple of new offerings:
   5.  Riding with the First Nations Snowboard Team (This film looks at
      the First Nation snowboard team lead by Squamish Nation members
      Virginia Johnston and Aaron Marchant)
   6.  Tribal Journeys (This film is about the First Nation canoe
      healing journeys and the construction of the Pekultn, the Harry
      Family canoe)

 

For more information about Squamish Nation involvement, including times 
for drum making workshops please contact Tsawaysia Spukwus (Alice Guss) 
at 604-892-5195.

 

For more information on the Squamish Writers Group and to get involved 
in their Stories of Mine publication chronicling what brought community 
members to Squamish and why they stayed please contact Jude Goodwin at 
604-892-4997.

 

For further information on the Squamish Historical Society or to receive 
a copy of one of the SHS films, please contact Bianca Peters, President, 
Squamish Historical Society, 604-898-8454, email info at squamishhistory.ca 
<mailto:info at squamishhistory.ca>  and check out www.squamishhistory.ca 
<http://www.squamishhistory.ca/>

 

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