June 8, 2021
Fingerling Festival being held on June 19th After having to cancel our iconic Festival in 2020 due to the global pandemic, we look forward to having […]
May 12, 2021
Tulip and daffodil bulbs are now available at our Noons Creek hatchery for $5 per bag – cash only. Please call ahead to ensure a volunteer […]
May 12, 2021
“In the Presence of Ancestors” reasserts the presence of the original caretakers of these Coast Salish Lands and Waters, inviting all of us to join this legacy […]
May 7, 2021
Dear Port Moody, Some of you have been traveling with me on this journey for a while now. Some of you still may not even know. […]
February 9, 2021
Morning greetings from Saymahmit, Coast Salish Lands and Waters
February 9, 2021
Xapayay: Tree of Life Project. Cedar is our Tree of Life. She is the one who gives and gives and gives. She cleans our air. She […]
February 9, 2021
When we were first sent into isolation the threat of unwellness sweeping across these Coast Salish Lands and Waters was terrifying. Not everyone was going to be ok. My first impulse had me running to the woods and into the lap of my favorite cedar tree. I could breathe there and was reminded that we have been here before. These Coast Salish Lands and Waters know viruses and death. I was reminded that we survived and continue to survive because this is our home. Not everyone understands the sacred relationship we have with the natural world let alone the medicines and ancient whispers of a cedar tree. The Xapayay: Tree of Life Online Gallery showcases the expression of five Coast Salish artists and the critical role cedar plays in ensuring the health and well-being of all of our relations.
May 9, 2020
M’Girl Music will be sharing some songs with us for Xápayay:Tree of Life. M’Girl’s percussive based hand drum songs blends harmonies into a contemporary gospel style, […]
February 9, 2020
Salia Joseph – Cedar Medicine and Music Salia is from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Snuneymuxw First Nation’s on her father’s side and is British and Jewish on […]
February 9, 2020
Join Elder “T’it’elem Spath”, Eddie Gardner, a member of Skwah First Nation for a storytelling of our deep and profound relationship with cedar trees, our relatives […]
February 9, 2020
A livestream performance by Ronnie Dean Harris aka Ostwelve including songs, poems and stories. Maybe a joke or two. Live and direct from t̓sic̓əl̓əs at the […]
August 24, 2019
Drop by the hatchery on Saturday, August 24, 2019 for our annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Bring your family and friends – all ages welcome.
April 18, 2019
Celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day in a canoe or watch from the pier as Ta-ah Amy George and Cultural Leader Charlene Aleck lead a water blessing ceremony for the Burrard Inlet. Hear the different songs and witness the traditional ocean-going canoes from neighbouring First Nations. Share in a community Feast, and enjoy live entertainment and a Give Away.
April 18, 2019
Listen to Carleen Thomas share slides and family stories about her Nation’s history located here in the Burrard Inlet. Further your understanding of what it means to be residents of Port Moody and joining the legacy of ancestors sharing the sacred responsibility to care for these Coast Salish Lands and Waters.
April 18, 2019
Learn how to weave cedar into beautiful bracelets with traditional artist and knowledge keeper Tsawaysia Spukwus.
April 18, 2019
Lets work together to create gifts for the Give Away at our Nation Indigenous People’s Day event. Bring your traditional artistic practice and enough materials to share if you wish. Some supplies will be available. Contact us for further details.
April 15, 2019
Please join us for a hiphop poetry multi-media performance with Ostwelve: Ronnie Dean Harris.
April 14, 2019
April 20th will be the first event of a Spring long journey with the Welcome Post Project. Join us as we celebrate water’s significance in Coast Salish culture and the connection water has to our community and way of life.
April 14, 2019
Visual and multi media artist Ocean Hyland will be spending two weeks at the Hatchery refining her skills as an apprenticing carver. She will be joined by various mentors and Coast Salish artists. Come learn more about Coast Salish style and design. Artist talk. May 2, 7-9pm
April 14, 2019
Kwantlin artist and cultural leader Brandon Gabriel returns to our community to further our conversation about participating in change and how part of this change is understanding how water is sacred for all of our relations.
April 14, 2019
Join Brandon Gabriel as we come together as a community paint a canoe and learn about Coast Salish design.
April 14, 2019
Ocean Hyland will be leading a talk about her two week residency at Noons Creek hatchery . Join us as we celebrate her work!
April 14, 2019
Journey up the Indian Arm in traditional canoes led by cultural leader and skipper Dennis Thomas. Learn the history of the first people of the Inlet, hear their songs, and visit ancestral village sites and see the pictrographs embedded in the rocks. Preregistration Required. Meet at Cates Park and bring a lunch.
April 14, 2019
Please join us for a slideshow and presentation on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Port Moody Foreshore with Dr. Stan Copp.
April 14, 2019
Have you ever wondered what traditional medicines grow in our backyard? Join us as ethno-botanist and Knowledge Keeper Cease Wyss teaches us about the medicines growing in our forests. Learn how to harvest medicines and how to make them into teas. Each participant will take home their own tea concoction.
April 8, 2018
Thank you for applying to be an exhibitor or sponsor at our annual Fingerling Festival, one of the very best of its kind and oldest envirofests of its kind in BC, attracting over 5,500 people of all ages who love the environment just as much as we do.
October 2, 2017
For 2017, we are hoping for an even bigger turnout and an even more effective result…….come along and help us keep the shoreline and parkland areas of Port Moody healthy and natural. Nothing spoils a leisurely walk along a trail than to see trees coated in strangling English Ivy, or having Lamium coat the floor of what should be native ground cover. Let’s rid the area of these invasive pests!
July 17, 2017
Brandon Gabriel (Kwantlen) hosts a second community dialogue on reconciliation with a focus on how each one of us can embrace reconciliation on various levels in our lives. As the Welcome Post Project brings together settlers and migrants with Coast Salish People, this creates the opportunity to learn and share. T
July 17, 2017
Drum making with Rueben George is now full.
Fee and pre-registration for workshops. Please pay in advance to reserve your space.
June 8, 2017
Join artist and ethnobotanist Cease Wyss for nature walks along the Shoreline Trail. Come and experience the forest from a Coast Salish world-view. Learn traditional names and medicinal purposes of the plants and trees. Listen to stories of local history of this land and how the trees, rocks and animals all of our relations.
March 22, 2016
Join us at our Noons Creek hatchery on Saturday, August 20, drop-in between 9 and 11am as we again participate in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.
October 25, 2015
Fantastic, fun day at the Hoy / Scott Creek ‘Salmon Come Home’ Festival today!!! Lots of exhibitors (including P.M.E.S.) and activities for all.
Our friends from DFO (Scott & Maurice), Maple Creek Streamkeepers, Hyde Creek Watershed Society, Friends of DeBoville Slough, Burke Mountain Naturalists – plus Jay Peachy and his awesome coffee and singers, were all there to make it a super fun day.
October 7, 2015
Port Moody Rotary club partnered with the City of Port Moody and P.M.E.S. on Saturday 3rd October to hold an invasive plant removal working-bee on the Inlet Park path leading from the Hatchery.
June 23, 2014
The DFO Volunteer Recognition Event (a.k.a. the ‘Ugly Bug Ball’) was held on Saturday June 21st at the beautiful A ROCHA complex (https://www.arocha.ca/bc-centre/) on 16th Avenue […]
August 17, 2013
The Port Moody Ecological Society is very happy to offer a two day Streamkeepers course, presented by the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation on June 7 & 8 from 9:30am to 4:30pm. This course will be held outdoors by our Noons Creek hatchery in the Shoreline Park on Ioco Road.
May 7, 2013
Thank you to everyone who came out to release salmon while enjoying the sunshine and exhibits at our Fingerling Festival! After being blessed by the Katzie […]