Paddling forward: truth and reconciliation at Capilano University

By Brent Richter/ North Shore News
University commissions Squamish Nation carver to build traditional canoe for school’s 50th anniversary

On a cool March afternoon on Capilano University’s North Vancouver campus, Ses Siyam chips away at a cedar log that began as a sapling in Squamish’s Elaho Valley, perhaps 600 years ago. He is a seventh-generation carver, a hereditary chief and also one of only a handful of Squamish Nation members who still possesses the knowledge to build a traditional dugout canoe.…

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