it wasnt called colvilletown, it has always been Snuneymuxw, it couldnt be pronounced properly and then became Nanaimo. a majority of the names on vancouver island and on the mainland are first nations names
Cele Aleck so very few people know this history anymore unfortunately. I am apart of the Gogo family, not native in the least but I'm always in this type of argument with them.
Bit of a white wash ruined the whole area giant concrete car park and only indigenous thing I see 8s a statue of the guy who showed them where the coal was. ruined...
starting from departure bay 7 11 store to the port place mall was all first nations land there were three rows of long houses all along the waterfront. there was also villages on newcastle island and protection island as well as gabriola island and not to mention up nanaimo river...im a nerd too lowces
Nice video.
Is there ANY old footage of the yacht club here in Nanaimo BC
lived on Vancouver Island for 49 years. Been through Nanaimo so many times, yet I know little about the cities history.
I live in florida and our bays are also all destroyed and were all previously native americans now all extinct or gone
it wasnt called colvilletown, it has always been Snuneymuxw, it couldnt be pronounced properly and then became Nanaimo. a majority of the names on vancouver island and on the mainland are first nations names
Cele Aleck so very few people know this history anymore unfortunately. I am apart of the Gogo family, not native in the least but I'm always in this type of argument with them.
Nanaimo is where I was born and currently live in. :-)
I was born there, too, but have lived elsewhere since 2-3 years old.
Born in the old hospital March 1960.
i live there
Bit of a white wash ruined the whole area giant concrete car park and only indigenous thing I see 8s a statue of the guy who showed them where the coal was. ruined...
starting from departure bay 7 11 store to the port place mall was all first nations land there were three rows of long houses all along the waterfront. there was also villages on newcastle island and protection island as well as gabriola island and not to mention up nanaimo river...im a nerd too lowces
is this really how you spend your time?