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This file contains a series of field labs which have been used by faculty members at Lester B. Pearson College.

PEDDER BAY MIDDEN 

Just west of Pearson College in Pedder Bay is a bank along the estuary which is being eroded under the roots of a large Douglas Fir. We do a field lab there using the evidence from the First nations midden to piece together a picture of what the original system of Pedder Bay must have been like when First Nations people lived in the area, several centuries ago.

 

We are able to make observations of the exposed midden shell fragments and determine the species of shellfish harvested here. One interesting find was a shell of a native rock oyster, a species that is no longer found in Pedder Bay, but which was obviously part of the diet several hundred years ago.

The objective of this lab is to construct a systems diagram of this Bay Ecosytem which includes these early people.

 

This site has been created to represent the contiguous ecosystems of the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve/Marine Protected Area and for the use of the Green Blue Spaces sub committee of the Metchosin Environmental Advisory Select Committee ( MEASC).

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