Wanderism Travel

At Bella Bella (Waglisla) on June 5, 1988 we were given much the same sort of hospitable welcome we had received at Bella Coola. We were met at the wharf by several First Nations elders, and taken to the Heiltsuk Cultural Education Centre. We noticed that Crown land surrounding this waterfront reserve had been logged [...]

We were up early on June 4, 1988 and headed through North Bentinck Arm to Labouchere Channel and Dean Channel. We stopped briefly at the sulphuric hot springs at Eucott Bay, where some of us wallowed on the beach amid hot and salty mud and seaweed. From the forest on the other side of the [...]

At dinner time we reached Namu, site of a cannery that flourished from 1893 to 1969. Like Duncanby Landing, Namu is owned by B.C. Packers. We were unprepared for the scale of the industrial remains at Namu. Deserted hotels and other wooden buildings, locked and disintegrating in the wind and rain, line the waterfront on [...]

EXCLUSIVE TO WANDERISM Travel takes many forms. It frequently begins with storing a trip’s essentials into a suitcase, and ends with that suitcase itself being relegated to storage, awaiting its owner’s next emotional pull of perambulation. Pictures and movies are taken, notes made, experiences felt. Later, upon reflection, images and memories are conjured, allowing a [...]