Gabriola’s 707 Acre Community Park will have official trailmarkers soon. People who are in charge of safety-related things on Gabriola say we need them, and the Gabriola Parks and Open Spaces Advisory Committee has come up with trail names to put on the signs. (Flying Shingle article: Parks committee proposes trail names. Gabriola Sounder article: [...]
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After reading the Underwater power lines to Gabriola? post, Nick Doe sent us this text and photo: A core from the BC Hydro drilling investigation at Brickyard Beach, August 2010. It comes from about 60 feet down. Gabriola’s bedrock is sedimentary rock (sandstone, shale, and conglomerate), which originated in the estuary of a large river, [...]
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Concerned about Gabriola’s vanishing petroglyphs? You’re not the only one. Here’s an article from the Nanaimo Daily News: Sacred sites are defiled by misuse. Nick Doe wants to record as much information as he can about the remaining petrogylphs on Gabriola Island. "We’ve already lost some," said the amateur archeologist, the only person now actively [...]
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Now here’s something you might like to attend if you’re in Nanaimo tomorrow night: Archaeological Society of British Columbia Nanaimo chapter presentation: 7 p.m. at Vancouver Island University, Building 356, Room 109. Nick Doe will make a presentation on the meaning of the petroglyphs on Gabriola Island. That’s from the Nanaimo Daily News. They didn’t [...]
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