Study finds impacts of colonization destroyed nearly 90% of Burrard Inlet food ecosystems

A view of ships and tankers sailing along the waters of Indian Arm, taken from Burnaby Mountain. Taken April 2017. It shows an inlet with a mountain range behind it.

A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per cent of the food systems and sources in the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver over a period that extends from 1750 to 1980.

A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per cent of the food systems and sources in the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver over a period that extends from 1750 to 1980.A view of ships and tankers sailing along the waters of Indian Arm, taken from Burnaby Mountain. Taken April 2017. It shows an inlet with a mountain range behind it.

A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per cent of the food systems and sources in the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver over a period that extends from 1750 to 1980.

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