TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As representatives of the Cordova Bay Association, we acknowledge the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory our Cordova Bay community was built, and offer our respects to their ancestors who were living at the village of ȾEL¸IȽĆE at the time of the South Saanich Treaty of 1852. We recognize that the 1852 South Saanich Treaty charted out a relationship with the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen peoples that we are hoping to continue to develop today and into the future. (Courtesy of Dr. Brian Thom, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology UVic January 2021) W̱SÁNEĆ = wh-SAY-nech Lekwungen = Le-KWUNG-gun ȾEL¸IȽĆE = tsul-IL-CH-u
