Tracing Our Past

Tracing our Past: a heritage guide to Boundary Bay is the story of a landscape and the people who transformed it. Explore the history of this coastline, from the last Ice Age to the challenges facing us in the modern day. The resources of the ocean, river, and land, in and around Boundary Bay, have supported five hundred generations of people, dating back 9,000 years. This area has been the scene of immense changes in the last two hundred years, and the pace of change is accelerating. This guide covers Boundary Bay and its watershed, including Delta, Surrey, White Rock, Langley and Richmond in British Columbia, and Blane, Point Roberts and the Drayton Harbor watershed in Washington State. Learn about the local Coast Salish, multicultural explorers, settlers, fishers, farmers, developers, naturalists and conservationists and the relationships all these people had to the changing land, river, and ocean.