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Songhees, Oak Bay embark on shared knowledge project for popular beach
The popularity of a stretch of beach in what is now known as Oak Bay dates back well beyond when first explorers arrived.
Those sandy shores are the root of a new initiative between the Songhees Nation and the district that sprouts this spring. The Sitchanalth/Willows Shared Knowledge Project is a shared approach to developing a vision of the Sitchanalth, widely known as Willows Beach and Willows Beach Park.
“This is very important land and foreshore for all Lekwungen-speaking people, both for its history as a village site and for its connectivity to TI’ches, our islands immediately offshore. We appreciate Oak Bay’s efforts at a government-to-government relationship but much work remains, and this is a start of building that relationship,” Songhees Chief Ron Sam said in a statement.
Intentions include informing how Oak Bay and the Songhees Nation can together manage future land-use changes and potentially serve as a model for other local governments working with First Nations partners.