May 8th 2010
Chris Gadsden photos of the Get Out Migration (posted May 13th 2010)
A historical account with photos from 1971 through to the present. The Get Out Migration photos (below) were taken between May 7th and 9th in Victoria BC.
The following letter from Chris appeared in the Times Colonist May 14 2010
http://www.timescolonist.com/Police+thanks+protest+work/3026906/story.html
Police Get Thanks For Their Work
I participated for the last three days of Alexandra Morton's Get Out Migration protest walk over the damage ocean-located Atlantic salmon fish farms are doing to our wild salmon stocks.
I would like to give thanks to the excellent co-operation and traffic control provided by the RCMP and Saanich and Victoria police forces for helping make the march from Sidney to the legislature a safe journey for the hundreds of walkers.
I found all the police officers to be very friendly to us in the caravan as well as providing places for us to park our support vehicles at each stopping place along the way.
Also thanks to the travelling public of Victoria for their understanding for being inconvenienced for short periods of time, especially along the Pat Bay Highway, through the downtown core and then from Centennial Square to the legislature, where the numbers swelled to 4,000 people, therefore causing more short delays for motorists.
It was three days I will not forget, not only for being a small part of Alexandra's historic journey to make sure we have wild salmon for future generations, but also for efforts of the police officers who certainly made the migration all the more successful.
Christopher Gadsden
Chilliwack
1971 The crowd ,around 500 in
Sidney at a rally Friday at the Mary Winspear Centre. (above)
1973 Cosy Lawson who along with her 11 year old daughter Laterra walked
from Tofino to Victoria addresses the crowd in Sidney.
1986 The Fraser River paddlers with their canoe walked from Sidney to Victoria pulling the canoe.
1992 On the Pat Bay Highway walking to Victoria.
1992 On the Pat Bay Highway walking to Victoria.
1993 At MLA Lana Popham's office in Sannich.
1999 Alexandra Morton at Centennial Square.
On the way to the Legislature.
Arriving at the Legislature in Victoria May 9th 2010.
2010 - The large crowd gathered at the Legislature that was estimated at 4 to 5 thousand.
2010 - Chris Gadsden and Don Standford one of the organizers of The Get Out Migration on the steps of the Legislature with the Fraser Valley Salmon Society sign.
2010 Alexandra at the end of the rally at the Legislature buildings.
A blessing on Sunday morning for the wild salmon with hands on the water,
for the fry and smolts heading to the ocean and for the adults heading from the
ocean towards their natal streams including the Fraser River. The blessing was
held at Clover Point at the tip of Vancouver Island on the shores of the Strait
of Juan de Fuca.
Alexandra being interviewed at the end of The Get Out Migration.
Chris Gadsden and Alexandra at Clover Point.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip,
president Union of BC Indian Chiefs addresses the crowd on Saturday at
Centennial Square in Victoria.
The end of the Chris Gadsden's photo gallery. Thanks for looking. For more information from Chris he can be reached here.
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