Call us on 604-469-9106 or email portmoodyecologicalsociety @ hotmail.com
The Noons Creek hatchery is located over the footbridge to the very right of the Port Moody Recreation Centre on Ioco Road.
Celebrating 25+ years of environmental awareness and stewardship
Volunteer with us
June 16 – Community gift making for the Give Away. Lets work together to create gifts for the Give Away at our Nation Indigenous People’s Day event. Bring your traditional artistic practice and enough materials to share if you wish. Some supplies will be available. Contact us for further details. Image shown for display purposes only. […]
June 9 – Cedar Weaving Workshop With Tsawaysia Spukwus. Learn how to weave cedar into beautiful bracelets with traditional artist and knowledge keeper Tsawaysia Spukwus. Weaving shown are examples only. Actual items being made will be decided by the artist on the day. Acknowledging that we are on the unceded, occupied, ancestral and traditional lands of […]
June 2 – People of the Inlet: A History of Tsleil Waututh Nation at Inlet Theatre, Port Moody. Listen to Carleen Thomas share slides and family stories about her Nation’s history located here in the Burrard Inlet. Further your understanding of what it means to be residents of Port Moody and joining the legacy of ancestors […]
September 2019 – Residency with Brandon Gabriel. More details to follow.
June 21 – National Indigenous People’s Day Community Paddle and Feast. Celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day in a canoe or watch from the pier as Ta-ah Amy George and Cultural Leader Charlene Aleck lead a water blessing ceremony for the Burrard Inlet. Hear the different songs and witness the traditional ocean-going canoes from neighbouring First Nations. […]
May 26, 2019 – Gathering Medicines and Tea Making With Cease Wyss. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Have you ever wondered what traditional medicines grow in our backyard? Join us as ethno-botanist and Knowledge Keeper Cease Wyss teaches us about the medicines growing in our forests. Learn how to harvest medicines and how to make them into […]
May 16, 2019 – Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Port Moody Foreshore Parks. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery. Please join us for a slideshow and presentation on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Port Moody Foreshore with Dr. Stan Copp.
May 10, 2019 – Heritage Paddle up the Inlet with Takaya Tours from 10am – 3pm. Location: Cates Park Journey up the Indian Arm in traditional canoes led by cultural leader and skipper Dennis Thomas. Learn the history of the first people of the Inlet, hear their songs, and visit ancestral village sites and see […]
May 9, 2019 – Xaxatko: Water Spirit. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Please join us for a hiphop poetry multi-media performance with Ostwelve: Ronnie Dean Harris.
May 2, 2019 – Drop of Water artist talk with Ocean Hyland from 7 – 9pm. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Ocean Hyland will be leading a talk about her two week residency at Noons Creek hatchery . Join us as we celebrate her work!
April 27, 2019 from 10am to 4pm – Coast Salish Community Canoe Painting Project. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Join Brandon Gabriel as we come together as a community paint a canoe and learn about Coast Salish design. This project is proudly funded through a grant from the City of Port Moody. Read more about the […]
Water is Sacred on April 26, 2019, from 7-9pm. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Kwantlin artist and cultural leader Brandon Gabriel returns to our community to further our conversation about participating in change and how part of this change is understanding how water is sacred for all of our relations.
May 2, 2019 from 7pm. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Visual and multi media artist Ocean Hyland will be spending two weeks in April at the Hatchery refining her skills as an apprenticing carver. She will be joined by various mentors and Coast Salish artists. Come learn more about Coast Salish style and design. Artist talk. […]
April 20, 2019 from 12pm – 2pm – Stakw: Water is Life Project and Community BBQ. Location Noons Creek Hatchery April 20th will be the first event of a Spring long journey with the Welcome Post Project. Join us as we celebrate water’s significance in Coast Salish culture and the connection water has to our […]
Stakw: Water is Life Project 2019 overview. Join us as we embark on the Welcome Post Project’s second year of Coast Salish Cultural events. This year’s project is about Water and the significance of water in Coast Salish culture and the way of life for all of our relations. The Welcome Post Project is hosting […]
🌷 🌷 🌷 Tulips and daffodil bulbs are now available at the hatchery. $5 per bag – cash only – at our Noons Creek hatchery Monday to Saturday from 9 – 11am thanks to the City of Port Moody. Each bag contains approximately 20-30 bulbs – great value! We can help you get the bags to your vehicle at […]
28th Annual Fingerling Festival on May 2, 2020. Call for volunteers and exhibitors! On Saturday, May 2, 2019, from 11 am – 3 pm, the Port Moody Ecological Society invites everyone to attend our very special Fingerling Festival. Yes, it’s been more than 25 years since we first started our bucket brigade, putting chum salmon […]
Drop by the hatchery on Saturday, August 24, 2019 for our annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Bring your family and friends – all ages welcome. In 2018, more than 60 volunteers helped clear over 40kg’s of garbage from along our shoreline at our Noons Creek hatchery for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Let’s hopefully collect […]
Outdoor Classrooms. We encourage school and community groups to bring their students to the hatchery for one of our engaging workshop that are offered throughout the year. Bookings: please call Dave Bennie on 604-469-9106 for enquiries or email portmoodyecologicalsociety@hotmail.com to book. Our classes cost $45.00 for up to 15 students and $5.00 for every student […]
Click on the links to see a list of events that have been held at or through the Port Moody Ecological Society’s Noons Creek hatchery in 2019, including our Fingerling Festival, held the first Saturday of each May. Please consider volunteering with us. We are a 100% volunteer-operated salmon hatchery (chum and coho), water quality […]
Over 25 years of environmental stewardship
Click on the links to see a list of events that have been held at or through the Port Moody Ecological Society’s Noons Creek hatchery in 2019, including our Fingerling Festival, held the first Saturday of each May. Please consider volunteering with us. We are a 100% volunteer-operated salmon hatchery (chum and coho), water quality […]