Click here to read: Hith Alis Lax Gwa-yas-dums: Moving for Crisis to Hope at Gwa-yas-dums Village, Gilford Island, BC by Bob Chamberlin, William Trousdale, and Jeff Cook, Plan Canada, Summer 2008.
Kwik’wastutinuxw Haxwamis First Nation has launched it’s new website! The new site will allow for more updates and easier posting of current news and events. Stay tuned to find out whats happening in our community.
Our people have occupied our traditional territory on British Columbia’s Central Coast since time immemorial from Wakeman Sound to the waters between Gilford Island and Village Island.
Gwa-yas-dums was awarded with the 2007 Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Excellence in Rural/Small Town Planning. It marks the first time a First Nation community had won a national planning award.