On July 11, 2014, Roger Allen ( warden) and BC Parks Staff Trudy Chatwin and Hugh McDonald with Darrian (student at UVIC ), visited Canoe Islets Ecological Reserve. Canoe Islet: No Pelagic Cormorants or Double-crested Cormorants, Bald Eagle -1, Black Oystercatchers – 4, Surfbirds – 7, Ruddy Turnstone – 1, Black Turnstones – 5, Glaucous-winged
See PDF BC PARKS canoe islands COMPOSITION Physical: The reserve 400m from the Valdes Island shoreline. These are composed of glacially smoothed sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group, and lie at the eastern edge of Georgia Strait. Subtidally, strongly sloping bedrock substrates of irregular relief are interrupted by narrow sand-shell terraces. The channel between Canoe
This 371 page, 50 mb book may be downloaded from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HFD/library/documents/bib32374.pdf Thanks to Jody Krakowski ER warden for Baynes Island ER #69 for showing us the location of this important document. It provides a page and a map on each of the reserves created up to 1992. Include are the Ecological Reserves now lost from
From BC Naturalist September/October 1991 Vol 29 No 5 PDF: seabird_article
A good account of the Physical and Biological Characteristics, and several sections on nesting Cormorants. See the full 32 page PDF: Canoe and Rose Islets Management Plan Also historical issues and management strategy. Pictures of fish that are food for double crested cormorants
Thomas Ovanin writes about the 2 ecological reserves in the Islands trust area in the magazine “The Islands” PDF FILE:bc_double_crested_cormorants
PDF files: dive_report(1) Click on the following introduction.