Gabriola Island Community Profile 2025
· Gabriola Island · 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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