Cortes Island

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Cortes Iceland is an island at the northern end of the Strait of Georgia. It is located in the Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia, Canada and is part of the Discovery Islands. The island is separated in the north- east by the Lewis Channel of West Redonda Iceland and on the east by Desolation Sound from Malaspina Peninsula. The 1007 inhabitants of the island (excluding the residents of First Nation reserve Tork Indian Reserve 7) spread across the three villages Mansons Landing, Squirrel Cove and Whale Town.

Traffic

The island is reached by ferry from Quadra Iceland, a seaplane or a flight to the private airfield Cortes Iceland ( Hansen Airfield ) Airport.

Economy

There used to be on the island fishing, logging and coal mining. Today, there is a camp near the Smelt Bay Provincial Park.

History

The island was one of the traditional territories of the Klahoose and Tla'amin ( Sliammon ).

1792, the island was named during an expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores to Hernán Cortés.

1862 reached a severe smallpox epidemic Klahoose. Residues of another tribe were united with the surviving Klahoose and relocated to Squirrel Cove, to the east end of Cortes Island. A similar fate befell the Tla'amin. The reserve Paukeanum 3 ( 80.9 ha ) is located on the west coast of the island, north of Smelt Bay.

Many whalers - 1869 a railway station was built in Whale Town - lived on exports. But within two years, the whale population collapsed completely, the station was closed. Late 1860s were missionaries of the Order of the Oblates to the island.

Michael Manson from the Shetland Islands in 1886 as the first settlers came to the island and founded the present-day Manson 's Landing a trading post. His steam boats and caught by the Klahoose and its neighbors fish supplied the coal mines. The joint fleet of Sliammon, Klahoose and Homalco included more than 100 boats before 1970. 1893 opened the first post office for the 40 inhabitants of the island, a few years later, 12 students were taught.

The first church was built in 1896. Large parts of the traditional area were sold, the Klahoose had, however, as all First Nations, no purchase rights. From 1920 onwards, the children had to attend the Residential School in Sechelt, which existed until 1975. First, the island received a ferry to Quadra Iceland in 1969 to Vancouver. In the forties the Watchman system an original mediation and compensation system, which had been converted by the Oblates becoming a control and punishment system disappeared.

1989 protesting numerous residents of Cortes Iceland against clearcutting of the logging company MacMillan Bloedel. Ten years later signed the chief of the Klahoose, Kathy Francis, a contract for the ecological use of the forest area on the island with the Cortes Ecoforestry Society. This was triggered by the sale of the entire crownland on the island of Canadian Forest Products Ltd.. - Without consultations with the Klahoose. The Klahoose belonged to a small area in the island interior. The Tla'amin strive to include a contractual agreement with British Columbia.

Iceland Timberlands acquired a felling license for an area of 2600 acres, including the last component of Douglas, which was never made. Owner of the company is the New York Brookfield Asset Management, which owns timber rights for 2.5 million acres worldwide. Due to strong opposition on the part of the islanders, the company stopped its announced in January 2012 strike.

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