Re: [Paddlewise] Humbled

From: Michael Daly <mikedaly_at_magma.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:49:55 -0400
On 27 Jul 2004 at 11:12, Robert MacDonald wrote:

> As for running out of food and water:  On this coast? 
> In summer?  Salmon and bottom fish galore, shellfish for the taking
> (although a bit risky in summer), berries ashore.

When the first Brits arrived in the area a couple of hundred years 
ago, they found some of the healthiest of all first nations peoples.  
The Pacific coast of BC is one of the richest areas in the world if 
you want to eat.

Within a century, unfortunately, those same first nations were almost 
wiped out by European diseases.

Mike
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