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SUMMARY:Friends of Uplands Park - Camas Day 2026 Victoria BC Canada
DESCRIPTION:Friends of Uplands Park - Camas (Kwetlal) Day - 2026\n\nCome and join the Friends of Uplands Park for the annual spring Camas Day celebration!\n\nCamas (Kwetlal) Day celebrates Uplands Park's endangered Garry Oak ecosystem at the time of the camas bloom. This year marks Uplands Park's 80th anniversary as a natural area within Victoria, BC.\n\nThis FREE for EVERYONE event features\n\n* Live Music with the Bald Eagles\n* Environmental Organizations Displays\n* Guided Camas Meadow Walks\n* Free Refreshments\n* Family Activities\n* Prizes of Native Plants\n\nThe location is the Beach Drive Field at the Entrance to Cattle Point.\n\nCamas (Kwetlal) Day is a time to gather as a community and celebrate the beauty and richness of these ecocultural landscapes. Uplands Park was designated a natural area park in March 1946, so this year marks its 80th anniversary. Uplands Park is one of the best remaining examples of a Garry Oak ecosystem. The event brings together local environmental non-profit organizations who will help share the importance of protecting Garry Oak and other local ecosystems, Music, prizes and guided walks through Uplands Park will entertain -- and of course, there will be cake!\n\nCoast Salish peoples have long harvested the blue flowered camas lily's onion-like bulbs, steaming them in pits to produce inulin, a healthy sugar. Cooked bulbs taste like baked pears and can be eaten whole or ground into flour. Indigenous peoples cultivated camas lilies in family plots, using traditional methods to increase yields and weed out the toxic "white death camas." Pit-cooked camas was both a staple food and a valuable trade item. As you walk through Uplands Park it is likely that the many fields of blue you see around you were cultivated by the Coast Salish peoples.
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Come and join the Friends of Uplands Park for the annual spring Camas Day celebration!
Camas (Kwetlal) Day celebrates Uplands Park's endangered Garry Oak ecosystem at the time of the camas bloom. This year marks Uplands Park's 80th anniversary as a natural area within Victoria, BC.
This FREE for EVERYONE event features
* Live Music with the Bald Eagles
* Environmental Organizations Displays
* Guided Camas Meadow Walks
* Free Refreshments
* Family Activities
* Prizes of Native Plants
The location is the Beach Drive Field at the Entrance to Cattle Point.
Camas (Kwetlal) Day is a time to gather as a community and celebrate the beauty and richness of these ecocultural landscapes. Uplands Park was designated a natural area park in March 1946, so this year marks its 80th anniversary. Uplands Park is one of the best remaining examples of a Garry Oak ecosystem. The event brings together local environmental non-profit organizations who will help share the importance of protecting Garry Oak and other local ecosystems, Music, prizes and guided walks through Uplands Park will entertain -- and of course, there will be cake!
Coast Salish peoples have long harvested the blue flowered camas lily's onion-like bulbs, steaming them in pits to produce inulin, a healthy sugar. Cooked bulbs taste like baked pears and can be eaten whole or ground into flour. Indigenous peoples cultivated camas lilies in family plots, using traditional methods to increase yields and weed out the toxic "white death camas." Pit-cooked camas was both a staple food and a valuable trade item. As you walk through Uplands Park it is likely that the many fields of blue you see around you were cultivated by the Coast Salish peoples.\n\n\n
LOCATION:3040, Beach Drive, Estevan Village, Oak Bay, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, V8R 2S7, Canada
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