by Avery Lake
Touch the panels to remove pieces.
Watch as erasure becomes revelation.
"The lake was, I don't know what you'd call it, our fridge I guess."
"It meant everything to our people."
"They took away our culture, and lo and behold they took away our lake."
"The lake was, I don't know what you'd call it, our fridge I guess. It meant everything to our people. They took away our culture, and lo and behold they took away our lake." - Ray Silver, Elder of the Semá:th (Sumas) First Nation
Vancouver Sun, 2013
Past
Present
Future
Sumas Lake was drained in the 1920s for settler agricultural expansion.
What was stolen once may be stolen again.
What will you remember? What will you resist?