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BCIT Announces Plans to Daylight Guichon Creek

November 10, 2014 by Sarah Campbell 2 Comments

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On September 22th BCIT President Kathy Kinloch reconfirmed the commitment to daylight Guichon Creek across campus. Kathy Kinloch, Mark Angelo and Lt. Governor Judith Guichon gathered on campus to celebrated the restoration of the south end of Guichon Creek and promote World River’s day.

At the event President Kinloch announced that an assessment was underway to evaluate the underground portion of Guichon Creek and explore how it could be daylight across campus. The BCIT Rivers Institute will be collaborating with Campus Planning and Development to lead this work.

Guichon Creek had once been a flourishing ecosystem, and in the 1920’s people would fish for salmon along its banks. But as the area was developed the north end of the creek was culverted and the south end was urbanized and used for drainage. Since the 1970’s students, faculty, the BCIT Rivers Institute and the City of Burnaby have worked to restore the stream.

Check out the Flickr Gallery for all the photos from the event.

For the media coverage of the event:

  • The Province
  • The Burnaby Now
  • The Burnaby News Leader
  • The Link

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Restoration

Comments

  1. Khalid says

    May 10, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    very nice. i am glad to read this blog.

    Reply
  2. John A. Archer says

    May 8, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Thank you for the post. I really want to know more about the progress of Daylight Guichon Creek

    Reply

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