Gabriola Island Community Profile 2025

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Topics: Agriculture & the ALR · Aquaculture & shellfish · Climate & environment · First Nations & reconciliation · Forestry & trees · Governance & budget · Housing & affordability · Marine & foreshore · Transportation & ferries · Fresh water & aquifers — our classification, not the Trust's.

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GABRIOLA  
ISLAND 
ISLANDSTRUST.BC.CA/ISLAND-PLANNING/GABRIOLA
Community Profile
June 2024
September 2025

Contents
Time immemorial.........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................................4
Overview.......................................................................................................................................................4
Settlement Patterns....................................................................................................................................4
Settlement Timeline....................................................................................................................................5
Current Context............................................................................................................................................7
Natural landscape........................................................................................................................................8
Community....................................................................................................................................................10
Community Spaces & Connectivity............................................................................................................14
Land uses........................................................................................................................................................16
Sustainability & Resilience............................................................................................................................17
Gabriola Island Vision....................................................................................................................................19
Land Acknowledgment
The Islands Trust Area is located within the treaty and territorial lands and waters of the BOḰEĆEN, 
Cowichan Tribes, K’ómoks, Lyackson, MÁLEXEȽ, Qualicum, scəẃaθən, səl
̓
ilwətaɬ, SEMYOME, shíshálh, 
Sḵwx̱  wú7mesh, Snaw-naw-as, Snuneymuxw, Songhees, Spune’luxutth, SȾÁUTW̱   , Stz’uminus, 
ɬaʔəmen, Ts’uubaa-asatx, Wei Wai Kum, We Wai Kai, W̱   JOȽEȽP, W̱   SIḴEM, Xeláltxw, Xwémalhkwu, 
Xwsepsum, and xʷməθkʷəy
̓
əm First Nations. 
The Islands Trust Area lies within Coast Salish Territory, at the heart of numerous gathering places 
and villages that are home to these resilient and dynamic First Nations. 
The lands and waters of Gabriola Island Local Trust Area and other islands within the Islands 
Trust Area have been home to Coast Salish Peoples since time immemorial. This region is rich 
with history, place names, historical village locations, ancestral resting places, and other culturally 
significant sites. The Indigenous cultural history of the Islands Trust Area is preserve

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