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Ninstints, Queen Charlotte Islands

Ninstints, Queen Charlotte Islands


Print sizes are specific widths with the height varying depending on image proportions. Paper prints include ample white border all around. Canvas prints include 2" of canvas on all 4 sides for stretching.
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In Silence
rests the memory
of yesterday's love...

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The Queen Charlotte Islands sit on the western edge of northern British Columbia. At their southern tip lies the old village of Ninstints, the most important village of the Kunghit Haida. The village of Ninstints is a hauntingly beautiful group of totem poles, poignant memorial to the richness of Haida culture. Many of the original totem poles are no longer there. Some have fallen down, beginning their long journey back to the earth. Others have been preserved and are now on display in museums. I actually did this painting form an old tintype from the archives.

The eastern coast is relatively sheltered and dotted with islands. Collectively, the islands contain several life zones ranging from a coastal temperate rainforest of cedar and giant Sitka spruce, to a mountain zone of hemlock and alpine tundra.

About 750,000 seabirds breed in these islands; millions more stop here at some point during spring and fall migrations. It is the only confirmed nesting site in Canada for horned puffins. There are more eagle nests per kilometre of shoreline than anywhere else in Canada and the highest breeding density of Peregrine falcons in the world.


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