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I experienced my first magnitude 7.0-7.5 earthquake when I was almost 23 months old. It almost knocked me to the ground. That 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake struck Vancouver Island on June 23 at 10:15 a.m.[1] with a magnitude estimated at 7.0 Ms[2] and 7.5 Mw.[6] The main shock epicenter occurred in the Forbidden Plateau area northwest of Courtenay. While most of the large earthquakes in the Vancouver area occur at tectonic plate boundaries, the 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake was a crustal event. Shaking was felt from Portland, Oregon, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. This is one of the most damaging earthquakes in the history of British Columbia, but damage was restricted because there were no heavily populated areas near the epicentre, where severe shaking occurred. There were, however, a whole series of landslides in the Forbidden Plateau area there were a whole series of landslides blocked streams and rivers to create lakes. The first hikers into the area gave them great names, Landslide Lake, Rock Fall Lake, Earthquake Lake etc.; over time these natural dams were eroded to nothing, leaving nothing but fading memories of those lakes. This earthquake is Canada's largest historic onshore earthquake.[1] Three years later, an earthquake, an M8.1, struck at 8:01 p.m. PDT on August 2, 1949 in Haida Gwaii [formerly Queen Charlotte Islands], an interplate earthquake that occurred on the ocean bottom just off the west coast of the main south island [Graham Island]. The shock had a surface wave magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe).

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Great Flood Story - Haisla Nation

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Great Flood Story - Haisla Nation
The picture above shows the Gardner above Kemano, looking toward the Kitlope. On the right is the mountain that can be seen across the Gardner from Kemano village, Lhoxw (Thokw). This mountain is the one that is revered by the Henaksiala because at the time of the great flood, while the people were drifting helplessly in their canoes, it was Lhoxw mountain that actually rose up to catch and hold their dangling anchor rope. Here is that story:
Before the great flood the wolves were telling our people, who were living in X esdewakw that there was a great flood coming and now was the time to prepare for it. A lot of you will be asleep, be dead before it comes. But many of you will have to live through the danger and terror of it. So that was their warning.
In the beginning the people didn't have canoes. But the cedar tree helped them learn (We will learn the story of this event and the origin of the Beaver clan later). Soon everyone had two or three canoes. And the wolves had told the people that a flood was coming, that it was near. The people sent the men to the top of the mountains to pull bark off the cedar trees. Young ones, old ones, they took the denas, the bark from all of the trees. They got as much denes as they could get. The women came down to the end of the lake to make rope by twisting the bark. They call the thick rope of twisted denas x elpelak. And the men were told to look around the top of the mountains for an anchor. They needed to find a natural anchor stone to tie the cedar bark rope to. All the canoes were brought to the top of the lake and tied together there with that long, long rope. That's where the canoes were anchored at the top of the lake. Everything was prepared when it started to rain. The rain came down in buckets. The people up at the top of the lake had tied the end of the rope to the natural anchor rock in the mountains around Qanadatla. People came up the lake to get into those canoes.
It rained for many days. The canoes rose as the level of the water went up. Some canoes broke loose and the people drifted off. Other canoes capsized and the people drowned. The people drifted for a long time in their canoes. Some of the canoes broke loose and, still tied together, they drifted north toward Kemano. Their anchor rope caught on a mountain at Lhoxw. This mountain saved them because it rose up so that the canoe's anchor would catch on its rocky top, and then it rose and fell with the tide, holding the canoes steady. When the flood finally started to subside, the end of the long cedarbark rope ended up on a mountain called Xelbexw, located in the highlands across from the mouth of the Daniku River . It's probably still there.
After the Great Flood, the first thing that the people caught to eat was a dogfish. For that reason, the Henaksiala always considered dogfish to be a very special food. There is still a carving of a dogfish on a wooden grave marker in Kemano And that's the Henaksiala story of the Great flood. The Gitamaat had a Great Flood story, too, very similar to the Kitlope version. It had many of the features of this one, except that the anchor of the Gitamaat canoes caught on a mountain above Eagle Bay or Clio Bay (depending upon the version used by the storyteller).
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