The District of Kitimat announced on Thursday, March 26, 2025, that former mayor Joanne Monahgan has died. Monaghan joined Kitimat Council in 1980 as Alderman (a title later changed to Councillor) and served the community with distinction for decades. She is Kitimat’s first female Mayor, holding the role from 2008 until 2014. Here is a […]
On this weekend most of North America was in the grip of a frigid polar vortex. On the northwest coast of British Columbia, the sky was clear (and there were few birds on the waterfront).
For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby. Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a […]
It was a stormy night and early morning on September 27, when I went to Haisla to photograph the unveiling of the legacy pole. I noticed that the storm had uprooted a tree and it had somehow become planted in Douglas Channel just off the village dyke. The sun had come out for the pole […]
On Saturday, September 27, 2025, members of the Haisla Nation, residents of Kitimat and officials from Rio Tinto came together in Haisla, the Kitamaat Village, c̓imauc̓a, to unveil an aluminum totem pole that recounts the origin story of the Haisla. To honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Haisla Nation and Rio Tinto came […]
During the May shorebird count at Haisla, a fearless crow came up right close to the birders, apparently attracted by some salmon eggs that someone had scattered on a nearby driftwood log. ;
After a winter of mostly wet, overcast, low light, awful weather, spring has returned to Kitimat and Haisla. So a few images from the March 30, shorebird count by the Kitimat Valley Naturalists.