Above: View from the Midden - dinghy dock at Montague Harbour marine park. Left: Montague Harbour - view from the north walk. wooden boxes and placed in trees, and others were buried in middens. An anthropologist would call middens trash heaps, but our British Columbia First Nations say they are burial sites. 'q'unup they are called in Hul'qumi'num, which means 'white ground.' And they are very beautiful. They are white shell beaches, some of which extend metres down, and they are thousands of years old. Think of it. For time immeasurable before our baby country was hatched from its colonial egg, the Hul'qumi'num people visited these sites on a yearly rhythm and they placed the shells of the mollusks they harvested in 20 Canadian Yachting DECEMBER 2017