False Creek Community Mapping Project
Community knowledge for climate resilience.
False Creek has many stories to tell. Through this collaborative community mapping project, Georgia Strait Alliance and False Creek Friends Society are bringing together community knowledge, lived experience, and scientific and historical data to create an interactive map that reveals the many social, cultural, historical, and ecological layers of False Creek.
By combining these perspectives, we’ll help identify local climate risks, highlight opportunities for stewardship, and explore how False Creek can continue to serve as a safe harbour in a changing climate.
Together, we’ll:
- Bring together existing maps, research, and information about False Creek.
- Collect community stories about climate impacts, opportunities, and memories connected to False Creek.
- Create an interactive public map that makes these layers accessible at falsecreek.info (stay tuned for updates).
Because this project is built around community knowledge, we want community members to help guide it from the very beginning. That’s why we’re creating a Community Advisory Circle.
Join the Advisory Circle
Your experiences and perspectives can help ensure the map reflects the people, places, and stories that make False Creek unique.
We want this project to be guided by the people who know False Creek best and are most connected to the issues it explores. To do this, we aim to bring together people with diverse experiences and connections to False Creek, including but not limited to: Indigenous community members, shoreline residents, liveaboard residents, seniors, youth, environmental stewards, and other community members with relevant lived experience, knowledge, or perspectives.
If you’d like to help shape this project, we’d love to hear from you!
The project recognizes the longstanding relationships and knowledge of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, whose territories include False Creek. The project is built on the understanding that Indigenous perspectives and priorities are essential to developing a more complete understanding of False Creek and to ensure that the project proceeds in a respectful and meaningful way.
Resilient Coastal Communities
The False Creek Mapping Project is part of our Resilient Coastal Communities work, which supports communities in building resilience to climate change through collective action, local leadership, and community-driven solutions.