Guide:

Terry Slack is a semi-retired commercial salmon fisherman, a Fraser River salmon conservationist and a lifetime lover of river history and archeology.

Special Instructions: Wear walking shoes. Walk is child and bike-friendly. Rain or shine. Donations welcome.

Description:

Historic Lake at the Head Creek in Dunbar was one of the finest coho and steelhead spawning streams on the southern escarpment slope, within the old municipality of Point Grey. The wide creek flowed south east from the underground springs near 16th and Discovery and emptied into the North Arm of the Fraser River in the Southlands. The year-round aquifer-fed creek was the water source for today's ancient Camosun Bog and 25% of its water was diverted and used in 1897 to run the steam-driven Celtic Salmon Cannery. On this walk we will rediscover the historic northeast wild coho spawning tributary that ran through ancient glacier-deposite gravels which today are buried under the Dunbar Theatre and Stong's Market.

Check also the subsequent Lost Stream Walk "Vancouver's last steelhead run", also given by Terry on the 20th.