Winding through the Chilcotin Plateau southwest of Williams Lake, B.C., Farwell Canyon, with its dramatic cliffs and blue-green waters teeming with fish, has been a place of cultural significance and beauty since time immemorial.
In the summer months it’s a hub of activity, including fishing the Chilko salmon in one of British Columbia’s strongest remaining salmon runs.
It’s a landscape full of rich and complicated history — and now, long-standing tensions are flaring between neighbouring First Nations over the status and use of the canyon.
Both the Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) and the Tŝilhqot’in National Government are claiming it as part of their traditional territory.
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