In 1929 they had to put drains around the camosun bog because it trespassed housing. It became dry and other plants grew like hemlock trees. Volunteers from all different ages, backgrounds, etc., help restore this bog. For the past few years, volunteers have made it come back to life and encourage more people to see its beauty. It’s sad for the Musqueam people to have the bog shrink. It means a couple things when the bog shrinks: people have drained it for urbanization, prevents people from telling their stories, gives everyone a chance to learn from it. Larry Grant is an elder from musqueam nation. His dad came from china and his mom was from musqueam nation. He has three other siblings. He wasn’t allowed to go to the native school, because he was Chinese. This motivated him to learn more about his culture while teaching others about Musqueam culture.
1. A bog is formed when a lake slowly fills with debris. 2. Keystone species is sphagnum Moss. It maintains acidity by inorganic acidity. 3. Peat is a brown material with a soil like composition that’s made from dead sphagnum moss plants. Unlike soil it doesn’t decay into humus. 4. Digging through a bog can allow you to discover many historical contents (mummies) 5. An old hockey puck was found, marbles, and coins 6. She remembers the trees surrounding the bog were quite short (11ft). This was her “play ground” before that she used to play hockey at. 7. Bogs are a carbon sink because they store lots of carbon through Carbon segregation. Carbon sinks are important because they help tackle climate change. 8. There is evidence of their use of this bog region for the past 4000 years. 9. The development of a city that almost destroyed the bog. Drains that were installed in 1929 reduced the water levels, which destroyed the Sphagnum moss. 10. INVASIVE SPECIES grou