2014 Community Stewardship Award - Recipients

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Sustaining the Islands – Community Stewardship Awards Program 
 
 
 
2014 Recipient Profile 
 
Barrie Morrison and Nancy Waxler-Morrison 
North Pender Island 
(Posthumous) 
 
Category:  Individual 
 
Project:       Ecological legacy for the Pender Islands 
 
Nominator(s):      Pender Islands Trust Protection Society 
 
Letters of Support:  N/A 
 
Project Description:  
 
Barrie Morrison and Nancy Waxler-Morrison were involved in a wide range of works to 
preserve and restore ecosystems on the Pender Islands. They were founding members 
of the Pender Islands Trust Protection Society and were members of the Pender Island 
Conservancy Association. Barrie Morrison was a director in each organization and 
served a term as chair of the Pender Island Conservancy Association. 
 
The couple placed a covenant on their own property, the Cottonwood Creek Covenant. 
In Nancy’s memory, Barry established the Morrison Waxler Biodiversity Protection 
Legacy Fund to assist other private landowners on North and South Pender Islands to 
offset the cost of registering a conservation covenant on their land. To date, the fund has 
assisted five property owners in establishing covenants to protect land including: Frog 
Song, Garry Oak, Nighthawk Hill, Steil’s Forest and Woodwinds. By helping to preserve 
island properties in a more natural forested state, the fund will also have a mitigating 
effect on climate change. This fund continues to assist people in fulfilling their dreams of 
protecting land forever, in memory of both Barrie and Nancy. 
  

 
 
Sustaining the Islands – Community Stewardship Awards Program 
 
 
 
2014 Recipient Profile 
 
Christa Grace-Warrick, Gulf Islands’ Island Tides 
Pender Islands 
 
Category:  Individual 
 
Project:       25 years of promoting community connection through newspaper 
publishing 
 
Nominator(s):      Pender Islands Trust Protection Society 
 
Letters of Support:  Jan Slakov 
 
Project Description:  
 
Christa Grace-Warrick runs the Island Tides as a social enterprise, connecting people with 
common interests, and generating community debate on important issues. She founded the 
Island Tides newspaper in 1989 and has published it bi-weekly since then, paid for by voluntary 
subscriptions and advertising.  
 
Christa’s role includes selling ads (sometimes door-to-door), designing ads, editing millions of 
words, writing news stories, laying our more than 600 issues, negotiating with presses and 
Canada Post, solving software problems, driving delivery vehicles, stocking newspaper boxes, 
creating a searchable website, doing the book-keeping, organizing and recruiting content from 
hundreds of sources.  All this Christa has continued to do since she “retired.” 
 
During the lifetime of the paper, the editorial policy has supported the Islands Trust mandate with 
hundreds of articles focused on conserving and protecting ecosystems. The Island Tides has also 
been publishing articles about climate change, its causes, ways to mit

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