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Welcome to Finn Slough and the Finn Slough Heritage & Wetland Society. The residents and fishers who live and work in this unique community invite you to explore the pages of this website and uncover the many delightful aspects of the "Slough"; its Finnish roots, the who's who of wildlife and plants, current events related to our community and its role in the rich heritage of the Fraser River.
Discover Finn Slough! Click on the buttons to the left and be sure to visit our Gallery to view images collected from today's artists.
Finn Slough (or sometimes Gilmore or Tiffin Slough) can be found on the south arm of the mighty Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The Slough is bounded on the Fraser River side by Gilmour Island and on the north by a dyke built to protect Richmond. Access to homes on the Gilmour Island side of the Slough is by a wooden draw-bridge, creating a definite sense of isolation from the nearby urban areas of Richmond and Vancouver.
Art Show 2012
Celebrating the Current
See
you in March 2012! Update and Call for Artists
This
is the 12th Annual Art about Finn Slough Show and we warmly
invite you to participate. Come join us through your art in celebrating this
special place where history and nature meet! And
join us in thanking the Richmond Art Gallery for their continued support of this
event.
Art
will be received Wednesday March 7th,
in the Performance Hall (formerly known as the Lecture Hall), Richmond
Cultural Centre, 7700
Minoru Gate Richmond, BC
(not earlier: you need to come by, and sign it in between 4 and 7:30 pm Wed.
Mar 7th, 2012). Artists pick up their work Sunday Mar. 11 afternoon
at 3 pm.
Note
that as usual the show is un-juried.
We rely on the single focus (that is, Finn Slough: its history, ecology, place
in the biosphere) to organize and shape the entries. We encourage artists to
consider that we don’t have unlimited space, so it is best to bring the 2
or 3 pieces only that you feel best represent your view/approach.
All
art about Finn Slough is very welcome indeed.
This means that painting, photography, sculpture, wood work, film, ceramics,
poetry, and short written reflections will be enthusiastically included in the
show.
Please
don’t feel shy or intimidated by our theme: “Celebrating the
Current” is only a helpful prompt. “About” is beautiful and flexible idea.
Just think: “what is the connection between this piece of art and Finn
Slough?” We know that Finn Slough is in the middle of many currents: air
currents, water currents (in the Fraser River and the Slough itself), currents
of history and time, currents that are shaped by the big cycles of life: the
cycle of the seasons and their changes, of growing, ripening, decaying, and
growing again. So, “about Finn Slough” is quite flexible: your art
may include…an organic form like something you have seen at Finn Slough, a
plant shape, a representation of reeds or seeds or leaves moving in the air
currents, ducks in water currents, hummingbirds in the air currents, the Fraser
river and its currents and tides, the currents of shipping and commerce passing
by, cyclic currents of rebirth or decay, cycles of fish and fishing and
kingfishers returning, the skunk cabbage cycle… you get the idea!
The
show will be open to the public from the afternoon of March 8th to
Sunday afternoon March 11th. There will be a special celebration of
the artists and Finn Slough in the evening of Friday March 9th 7 to 9
pm, with live music, light refreshments. In addition there will be a guest
speaker, Michael Kluckner, artist, writer, and historian, whose book includes a
celebration of Finn Slough. Throughout, there will be activities for children
visiting the show, and a special nod to International Women’s Day, March 8th.
Swan Realease at Finn Slough
A very nice person named Linda, a volunteer from the Wildlife Rescue Association showed up at Finn Slough looking for a spot to release a juvenile mute swan that had been rehabilitated at their Burnaby Lake facility. The swan had been hit by a car near Number 5 road and that was chosen for the release but there was nowhere to get close to the water in that area. One of our residents helped to bring the swan which was in a carrying container down to a dock and the release was made. The swan was quite calm and walked out of the container, jumped into the water and swam happily off down the Slough.
(Tuesday, March 15, 2011)
The 2008 Art About Finn Slough Show theme "A Bridge to History" generated some wonderful bridge stories from some of the residents. Read them here. A definite piano theme seems to be running through.
Here are some videos:
A very brazen Piliated Woodpecker came by as I stepped out today and could care less that I was filming.
December 10, 2011
There has been a wild bee nest in this shed at Finn Slough since before 1982.
June 7, 2011
A Downy Woodpecker anouncing his intentions for Spring:
One of the wonderful iconic sounds of spring here at the Slough.
April 17, 2011
A Great Blue Heron Feeding in the Slough:
April 10, 2011
Messing Around in Boats:
March 19, 2011
Finn Slough in the rain:
January 20th, 2011
Eva moves through the drawbridge:
Here Al is bringing the fish boat EVA down Finn Slough from its winter cradle for the summer. To get through the drawbridge over to Gilmour Island it is necessary to remove five planks, so David is lifting the last one just in time. Hear that sound? That's the distinctive pop-pop pop-pop of EVA's classic make and break Easthope gas engine.
There are more EVA and Slough videos here.
Links:
Natural History of Richmond, British Columbia
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A nice video about the
A Tribute to Harry Vanderschee
A Tribute to Captain Bill Harvie
Here we are.
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Check out Finn Slough from space.
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See some of the marine traffic coming past Finn Slough:
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View in
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Google Earth
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Or check out the aerial view in MS Live Search Maps. Click on "Bird's Eye View" and then use the curved arrows to rotate the view of Finn Slough and zoom from 25 to 50 metres in the air. Try closing the left pane to get a larger map window.
Graphic by David Roberts
A Petition Letter if you feel so inclined.
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Updated - December 10, 2011
