“Can you name British Columbia’s five different species of salmon?”
You can after you visit the Quatse Salmon Sanctuary Centre in Port Hardy. Chinnok, Chum, Pink, Coho, Sockeye.
“Can you tell the difference between the oldest bone fishing hooks and stitching needles used by this area’s native people (8,000+ years ago) and those fragments used when Christ was alive? And those used a mere 500-600 year ago?”
After you visit the Port Hardy Museum you’ll likely remain as clueless as me. I’m just a ‘seen-one-bone-fragment-ya-seen-em-all’ kinda guy.
Is there really much more to say about Port Hardy?
Maybe reiterate the eye-opening fact that until 1979 this town had no road and no ferry terminal connecting it to the rest of Vancouver Island.
Maybe ponder the geographic perspective from here: if Victoria to Campbell River is RURAL; and if Campbell River to Port Hardy is REMOTE; then Port Hardy to Bella Coola is WILD.
