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...eagles in the skies over Brackendale, British Columbia. Ever since then, this small Canadian town has rejoiced in the title of "bald-eagle capital of the world." Why Brackendale, you might ask? The answer is to be found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close to the eagles swooping in on their prey is to join an "eagle safari" - one of the rafting expeditions organized...
...Columbia. Ever since then, this small Canadian town has rejoiced in the[an error occurred while processing this directive] title of "bald-eagle capital of the world." Why Brackendale, you might ask? The answer is to be found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close to the eagles swooping in on their prey is to join an "eagle safari" - one of the rafting expeditions organized...
...current investigation, the public has supplied more than 90 tips to conservation officers in both countries, officials say. So far about 50 dead birds with tail and wing feathers and talons removed have been found dumped in wooded areas near the traditional territory of B.C.'s Squamish and Burrard Indian bands, north of Vancouver. Band officials vehemently reject suggestions that aboriginals are involved in the slaughter. "We all share equally the horror and shock and frustration," Squamish Nation council chair Bill Williams says...
...class (for about $57), where you will eat well in a dining room, relax in a club car and gaze out picture windows. From May through September, Wednesday through Sunday, the train leaves North Vancouver at 10 a.m. and returns at 4 p.m., with a two-hour stopover in Squamish, where 60 vintage railway cars and locomotives are on view in the West Coast Railway Heritage Park. If you like, you can travel one way of the journey through Howe Sound on the M.V. Britannia www.bcrail.com./bcrpass...
...role as a tribal elder in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, Cariboo Country. His first film was a Walt Disney western entitled Smith!, with Glenn Ford. He delivered the eloquent speech, given in 1877 by the venerable Nez Perce chief, Joseph, with only one hitch: Dan George speaks Squamish, not Nez Perce. They made do with Squamish...