Early Stuart News Today

There is only one bridge in Takla Landing and on this June day, about three dozen people are gathered there around a blue plastic tub swimming with hundreds of baby salmon. They are preparing to transfer the fish into a nearby creek, hoping against all odds the fry will thrive and reboot the millennia-old migration of Early Stuart sockeye along the Fraser River, once millions

The Virginia Company of London, known for establishing Jamestown, packed the beehives into a three-ship fleet that arrived in April 1622.