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Skidegate
Skidegate ( hai, Hlg̱aagilda) is a Haida community in in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the southeast coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately west of mainland British Columbia across Hecate Strait. Skidegate, which is located on Skidegate Indian Reserve No. 1 and was formerly home to the Skidegate Mission is also the northern terminal for the BC Ferries service between Graham Island and Alliford Bay on Moresby Island. According to tradition, the village was named after an earlier village chief, Sg̱iida-gidg̱a Iihllngas = "Son of the Chiton”Hlg̱aagilda X̱aayda Kil, Haida language at FirstVoices. Accessed 1 July 2017. whose name late 18th-century traders in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haida Villages
This is a ''list of '' Haida villages, located in Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) and Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The following list includes material from John R. Swanton's ''The Indian Tribes of North America'', publ. 1953, and from the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. Currently active Kaigani (Alaskan) * Hydaburg, (Kaigani) a 1911 consolidation of three villages, Howkan, Sukkwan and Klinkwan. Current population: 382. * Kasaan, on Skowl Arm of Kasaan Bay, east coast of Prince of Wales Island. Graham Island (Canada) *Masset, current population 884, located at the mouth of Masset Inlet on the north coast of Graham Island. The name Masset, received from pre British contact between Haidas and the Spanish, actually includes three separate and adjoining communities, Atewaas (Old Massett) current population 614, Jaahguhl and Kayung. *Skidegate, on the north shore of Skidegate Inlet near its entrance, on the southeast coast of Graham Island. Curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Haida Villages
This is a ''list of '' Haida villages, located in Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) and Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The following list includes material from John R. Swanton's ''The Indian Tribes of North America'', publ. 1953, and from the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. Currently active Kaigani (Alaskan) *Hydaburg, (Kaigani) a 1911 consolidation of three villages, Howkan, Sukkwan and Klinkwan. Current population: 382. * Kasaan, on Skowl Arm of Kasaan Bay, east coast of Prince of Wales Island. Graham Island (Canada) *Masset, current population 884, located at the mouth of Masset Inlet on the north coast of Graham Island. The name Masset, received from pre British contact between Haidas and the Spanish, actually includes three separate and adjoining communities, Atewaas (Old Massett) current population 614, Jaahguhl and Kayung. *Skidegate, on the north shore of Skidegate Inlet near its entrance, on the southeast coast of Graham Island. Current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skidegate Band Council
The Skidegate Band Council, also known as the Skidegate First Nation, is a band government of the Haida people, one of two of the Haida Tribal Society aka the Council of the Haida Nation. Its offices are located in Skidegate, British Columbia. Indian reserves Indian reserves under the administration of the Skidegate Band Council are: * Black Slate 11, on Slatechuck Creek, about west of its mouth on Kagan Bay, Skidegate Inlet . * Cumshewa 7, north shore of Cumshewa Inlet west of McCoy Cove, east side of Moresby Island, . * Deena 3, south shore of Skidegate Inlet on north side of South Bay, north end of Moresby Island, . * Kaste 6, at mouth of Copper Creek, on Copper bay, northeast coast of Moresby Island, . * Khrana 4, east end of Maude Island, in Skidegate Inlet, between Graham and Moresby Islands, . * Lagins 5, mouth of Lagins Creek at head of Graham Island, Skidegate Inlet, . * New Clew 10, on north shore of Louise Island, . * Skaigha 2, east coast of Graham Island at Halibut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of The Haida Nation
The Council of the Haida Nation ("CHN") (''X̱aaydaG̱a Waadlux̱an Naay'') is the elected government of the Haida Nation. The council consists of a president and vice-president elected by popular vote, twelve regional representatives from four electoral regions, and one appointed representative from each of the Old Massett Village Council and Skidegate Band Council. The Haida Nation is engaged in a legal title dispute regarding their territories, the islands of Haida Gwaii and surrounding waters, asserting that the Crown has never legally acquired title to these areas, and has illegally infringed upon Haida Title and rights within the territories through the imposition of Canadian sovereignty and the extraction of resources under Canadian authority. There are two main Haida villages on Haida Gwaii: G̱aaw, known in English as Old Massett, and Hlg̱aagilda, known in English as Skidegate. Haida populations in Kxeen and T'agwan are also represented on the Council of the Haida Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii (; hai, X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / , literally "Islands of the Haida people") is an archipelago located between off the northern Pacific coast of Canada. The islands are separated from the mainland to the east by the shallow Hecate Strait. Queen Charlotte Sound lies to the south, with Vancouver Island beyond. To the north, the disputed Dixon Entrance separates Haida Gwaii from the Alexander Archipelago in the U.S. state of Alaska. Haida Gwaii consists of two main islands: Graham Island () in the north and Moresby Island (, literally: south people island half, or "Islands of Beauty") in the south, along with approximately 400 smaller islands with a total landmass of . Other major islands include Anthony Island ( / ), Burnaby Island (), Lyell Island, Louise Island, Alder Island ( / ), and Kunghit Island. (For a fuller, but still incomplete, list see List of islands of British Columbia.) Part of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the islands were known f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haida Heritage Centre
The Haida Heritage Centre is the premier cultural centre and museum of the Haida people. It is located in Skidegate, a community on Graham Island in Haida Gwaii off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. The centre is situated just south of the site of a historical village in Kay Llnagaay (pronounced ''kie-il-na-guy'', which means "Town of Sea Lions"). The Centre was built and is managed by Gwaalagaa Naay, an economic development branch of the Skidegate Band Council, the owners of the site. It is one of the major aboriginal cultural tourism attractions in Haida Gwaii and has been described as "a place for the Haida voice to be heard." Educational programs are offered in partnership with School District 50 Haida Gwaii, the University of Northern British Columbia, and with the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society. The Centre includes an interpretive centre, temporary exhibit space, Performing House, Canoe house, Carving Shed, the Bill Reid Teaching Centre, Program Management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haida People
Haida (, hai, X̱aayda, , , ) are an indigenous group who have traditionally occupied , an archipelago just off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, for at least 12,500 years. The Haida are known for their craftsmanship, trading skills, and seamanship. They are thought to have frequently carried out raids and to have practised slavery. The Haida have been compared to the Vikings by Diamond Jenness, an early anthropologist at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. In Haida Gwaii, the Haida government consists of a matrix of national and regional hereditary, legislative, and executive bodies including the Hereditary Chiefs Council, the Council of the Haida Nation (CHN), Old Massett Village Council, Skidegate Band Council, and the Secretariat of the Haida Nation. The Kaigani Haida live north of the Canadian and US border which cuts through Dixon Entrance south of Prince of Wales Island ( tli, Taan) in Southeast Alaska, United States; Haida from K'iis Gwaii in the Duu Guusd regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Ferries
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned Canadian company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America, operating a fleet of 36 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 locations on the B.C. coast. The federal and provincial governments subsidize BC Ferries to provide agreed service levels on essential links between the BC mainland, coastal islands, and parts of the mainland without road access. The inland ferries operating on British Columbia's rivers and lakes are not run by BC Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District
The North Coast Regional District (until 2016 known as the Skeena–Queen Charlotte Regional District) is a quasi-municipal administrative area in British Columbia. It is located on British Columbia's west coast and includes Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), the largest of which are Graham Island and Moresby Island. Its administrative offices are in the City of Prince Rupert. Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the North Coast Regional District, previously the Skeena–Queen Charlotte Regional District, had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Electoral areas *Area A - Skeena North: 29 **Dodge Cove (unincorporated community): 29 (down from 52 in 2011) **Crippen Cove ** Metlakatla **Lax Kw'alaams *Area C - Skeena South: 147 **Porcher Island ***Oona River (unincorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Island
Graham Island () is the largest island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago (previously known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), lying off the mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is separated by the narrow Skidegate Channel from the other principal island of the group to the south, Moresby Island (''T'aaxwii X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay linag̱waay'' in the language of the Haida people). It has a population of 3,858 (2016 census), an area of , and is the 101st largest island in the world and Canada's 22nd largest island. Graham Island was named in 1853 by James Charles Prevost, commander of HMS ''Virago'', for Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time. Communities * Daajing Giids (formerly known as ''Queen Charlotte City'') * Juskatla * Masset * Old Massett * Port Clements * Skidegate * Tlell Attractions * Naikoon Provincial Park * North Beach https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/british-columbia/haidagwaii/parks-trails/4715-north-beach-naikoon-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of British Columbia Provincial Highways
The Canadian province of British Columbia has a system of numbered highways that travel between various cities and regions with onward connections to neighboring provinces and U.S. states. The numbering scheme, announced in March 1940, includes route numbers that reflect United States Numbered Highways that continue south of the Canada–United States border. British Columbia Highway 1, Highway 1 is numbered in accordance with other routes on the Trans-Canada Highway system. Major routes East-west * The British Columbia Highway 1, Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) runs from Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria to Nanaimo, British Columbia, Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Then, after a ferry ride to the mainland, it continues from Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, Horseshoe Bay, through the Greater Vancouver, Vancouver area, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Abbotsford, Hope, British Columbia, Hope, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke, British Columbia, Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hecate Strait
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