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THE toca! hills are making history this year as skiers and snowboarders hit the
topes well into June. Both Grouse Mountain and Cypress Bowl (above) are open
fer their first-ever summer seasons.

West Vancouver Garden Club and |

Vancouver Hardy Plant Group

invite you to spend an evening wandering | through the garden of internationally

Roy’s lectures ave illustrag
by his superb slide
collection. His presentation **"
will feature, "a plantsman’s
garden”, being Roy's own in
Hanipshire, its history and
plants.

North Vancouver

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Aboriginal Day will be
celebrated on June 2],
the summer solstice
and a day of cultural
importance to aborigi-
nal people in Canada,

Several aboriginal organi-
gations are coordinating
events on or before June 21
with school districts and
other aboriginal and nen-
aboriginal organizations.

Beginning on June 21,
Grouse Mountain will be fea-
turing a week-long run of a
film about Burrard native
Chief Dan George. Today is a
Good Dav — Ren:cmbering
Chief Dan George, by Loretta
Todd, was rated best docu-
mentary oat othe = 27th
American Indian Film
Festival.

The Aboriginal Arts and
Culture Celebration is sched-
uled for today on the front
lawn of the Vancouver Ari
Gallery. The event features
First Nations performers
from across the country and

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around the world.

Today the UBC Museum
of Aathropology will cele-
brate National Aboriginal
Day with the unveiling of a
newly commissioned
Musqueam weaving by artists
Debra and Robyn Sparrow.
The work will be unveiled at
a reception accompanied by
First. Nations — speakers,
dancers and drumming.

The Vancouver Aboriginal
Friendship Centre Society
will host a West Coast tradi-
tional feast accompanied by
First. Nations performances
and an arts and crafts exhibi-
tion on June 21. Contact
Robert Harry at 251-7217.

United Native Nations
and the Roundhouse
Community Centre are host-
ing a celebration to recognize
tNauional Aboriginal Day and
the summier solstice, from 7-
9 p.m. June 21 ar 181
Roundhouse Mews.
Performers include Michael
Kashane on piano, Loma and
the Okanagan Rainbow
Theatre. Craft tables and

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activities for children are also
featured.

The Metis Nation of B.C.,
in conjunction with the
Kwanten First Nation are
recognizing the history Metis
share with their First Nations
cousins and Fort Langley,
established during the fur.
trading era.

Follow the signs today at
the junction of Highway 10
and 99, to where an cight-
person freighter canoe laden
with voyageur trade goc-ds
will be Taunched toward
Kwantlen First Nations terri-
tory to begin the Metis

Homecoming Celebration.

On-shore Metis celebra-
tions will include a feast of
dried, meat, buffalo burgers,
wild rice and bannock, 2
Michif language workshop
and storytelling by elders,
crafts, fiddle plaving, jigging
and voyageur games.

For a full listing of events
for the celebration, which
runs to July 4, contact
Cameron McBeth at 581-
5863.

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