There's been a palace coup at BC Ferries.
After 7,100 people participated in a naming contest, BC Ferries will honour the Coast Salish people with its three new intermediate class ferries.
The Queen of Burnaby is being deposed by the Salish Orca on the Comox-Powell River run in late 2016; the Queen of Nanaimo is bowing out when the Salish Eagle takes over the Tsawwassen-Southern Gulf Islands route in early 2017; and the Salish Raven will also be plying the waters of the Southern Gulf Islands starting in the summer of 2017.
BC Ferries is working with First Peoples’ Cultural Council to select Coast Salish artisans to design artwork for the vessels’ exterior and interior. A press release says it “anticipates beautiful designs that both preserve and advance Coast Salish culture.”
Is it time for the Queen of Capilano, which links Bowen Island to Horseshoe Bay, to get a new name?
