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Garry Fletcher COASTAL CHARACTERS tion a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.” At Pearson, Garry began teaching biology, marine sci- ence and scuba diving. Jack Matthews, the then College head, gave teachers great freedom to develop their own sphere. “I was able to build an interdisciplinary marine science course that included chemistry, physics and biol- ogy,” Garry recalls. “We have this unique situation here at Pearson. Fresh and saltwater, marine ecosystems, forests. I took the class diving, 15 on a boat. We had substantial blocks of time.” Meeting Trevor and Flo Anderson, lighthouse keep- ers at Race Rocks, further revolutionized his teaching and interests. Race Rocks, an archipelago of nine jagged islets lying eight miles from Victoria, is the southernmost point of Pacific Canada. The islands are the pinnacles of a large underwater mountain. The lighthouse was the sec- GARRY FLETCHER ond to operate in BC and was constructed of Scottish granite Marine science teacher and Race Rocks champion brought as ballast aboard Brit- BY MARIANNE SCOTT ish sailing ships. The Rocks are named after the passage separating it from Vancouver Island and has a tidal race o visit Garry Fletcher at his home requires a drive come to Pearson College, in reaching seven knots. When through the countryside of south Vancouver Is- Metchosin, thinking we’d be strong tides and winds op- land that seems hundreds of miles from the cities here for, maybe, four years.” pose each other, standing that house most of us. His house in Metchosin, But Pearson, its students, waves can grow to 10 feet. The near his son’s organic market farm, looks out over curriculum and nautical loca- upwelling from the currents Tsheep trimming the meadow bordering the Juan de Fuca Strait. tion ensnared him and he and provides an exceptionally An espaliered kiwi vine hugs the deck, nectarine and peach his family have never left. abundant environment for trees provide fresh fruit, rhubarb thrives and herbs enliven animal and plant life. Some of meals. PEARSON COLLEGE IS a the islets are favourite perches Garry grew up on a small Saskatchewan farm; it mixed grow- special place. Located on for Steller and California sea ing food with raising cattle. Farm life inspired his interest in south Vancouver Island’s Ped- lions, and elephant seals and biology, which he studied at the University of Saskatchewan in der Bay, it’s one of 18 United harbour seals sunbathe here. Saskatoon. After earning a master’s degree in science curricu- World Colleges and offers “My philosophy of teaching lum, he taught in Swift Current where he met his wife Helen, a two-year pre-university is to instill the concept of eco- who taught English. He was then invited to teach biology at the baccalaureate diploma that systems’ integrity and sustain- United Nations International School in New York. “They offer an covers grade 12 and a gap year ability,” Garry says. “I explain internationally recognized baccalaureate degree,” he said. “But for up to 200 students. These we’re not on a chain, we’re in in 1976, after being mugged in the city, we accepted an offer to students, who represent more a life web. I ask students to than 150 countries, live, study and grow together. Pearson’s 24 OCTOBER 2019 mission is to “make educa- A fabulous coffee table Canada’s Arctic book and ideal gift. Canada’s Arctic A Guide to Adventure Through the Northwest Passage assess their project’s sustain- ability. Does it have biological integrity? Does it impact the Chukchi Russia Ellesmere Greenland food web or energy flows? Sea Island Beaufort Diomede Sea Bering Barrow Sea Grise Fiord St Lawrence Island Pribilof Nome Beechey Devon Island North Island Disko What services do ecosystems Islands Dundas Slope Baffin Bay Resolute Harbour Bylot Island Banks Island Arctic Port Bay Bay Alaska Herschel Island Leopold Prince Clyde of Wales Pond Victoria Island Fort Inlet Baffin Island River Tuktoyaktuk Island Ross Ulukhaktok Boothia Qikiqtarjuaq Pangnirtung provide? We must weigh what Smoking Hills Cambridge Peninsula Bay King Taloyoak William Island Anchorage Gjoa Unalaska Kugluktuk NUNAVUT things will look like in 100 Iqaluit C A N A D A Gulf of Alaska Paleo-Eskimo people are believed to N have migrated from Siberia east into Hudson years, not just next year.” the Arctic 8,000 – 5,000 BP (3,000 Bay W BC). They travelled as far as modern E Greenland. They were nomadic in nature and are believed to have S relied heavily on muskox and other land animals for food and resources. St Roch II route through the Arctic THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS 6 7 welcomed Garry and students to Race Rocks. “The Ander- sons knew the uniqueness of the region,” he says. “We dived near the rocks, although Captain Ken Burton with the currents, it could be dangerous. We surveyed and $39.95 created maps of underwater Explore the Arctic with Captain Ken Burton. In the year 2000, he was the RCMP skipper of the St Roch II, who circumnavigated North America and who has since marine life and collected data returned time and again to research the history and culture of Canada’s Arctic. on birds and marine wildlife.” In 1980, this work led to con- For a copy signed by the author email him at [email protected] nections with the predecessor This book is also available through Pacific Yachting Magazine to the Ministry of Environ- ment. That ministry managed https://shop.opmediagroup.ca/collections/bookstore the “Ecological Reserves” program—areas set aside because of their exceptional natural features, and for their scientific and educational significance. Garry and his students asked the Ministry to add Race Rocks to the list of protected areas. “Remarkably,” says Garry, grinning, “Prince Charles, the United World Colleges’ chair, came here for a board meet- ing. We told the ministry the $ 2,999. Prince might announce that • Electric Mode: for effortless Race Rocks had become an winching. Ewincher’s motor ecological reserve. Our pro- will do all the work. posal was approved in record • Manual Mode: for fine adjust- time.” Garry began serving ments, as if you were as the Race Rocks Ecological using a classic winch handle. Reserve warden and reported on the Pearson team’s ongoing • Combined mode: for out- research. He urges others to standing hauling speed. propose ecological reserves and has developed an “adopt an ecosystem” template to Cheaper than a single develop proposals, which can electric winch. be found online. Provides full assistance MEANWHILE, A MICROWAVE to all of your winches tower delivering live video Victory Products of island life was built. Two cameras still run today. “The 8194 Ontario Street. Vancouver, BC www.ewincher.com Ph. 1 800 324-0414 604 325-5233 www.victory-products.com OCTOBER 2019 25 Race Rocks Lighthouse was one of the first two built in BC. islands are too small for visi- obtaining electricity from to assess if the turbine placed He’s active in environmen- tors,” says Garry. “So Pearson solar, wind and tidal energy at in Race Passage could produce tal issues. He condemns the grad Ken Dunham developed Race Rocks. “These were tests electricity during both ebb doubling of the Trans Moun- the network that allowed live- to determine if any of these and flood currents. UVic and tain Pipeline and has been streaming internet video—one alternative energy sources Pearson students collaborated an intervenor at the National of the first such projects in were feasible in this natural on the project. “This was a Energy Board hearings. He North America. During an laboratory,” says Garry. case study,” says Garry. “Our cultivates and sells mason Apple conference in New A BC ministry funded the students dove often to apply bees to augment the popula- York, I was in a boat off Race solar panels and, with an ar- coatings that might pre- tion of pollinating insects. Rocks live webcasting with ray of batteries, provided the vent fouling of the turbine’s He’s analyzed the Race Rocks’ a diver filming underwater electricity to help power the blades.” water temperature and salin- (Apple later provided access islands, thereby reducing the Alas, the experiment was ity data collected since 1921. to live streaming on their net- diesel needed to run genera- discontinued after six years. “Every month, the median work). Our students were very tors. With additional collec- Photos show that giant bar- temperature is at least one hands-on and we delivered tors, they still function today. nacles and other ocean life degree Celsius higher than other live webcasts of Race “The 40 solar panels generate had colonized the turbine. in 1921,” he warns. As a part Rocks’ intertidal and subtidal enough power in the summer “It was just too expensive to of a UVic research program, zones to schools. It was new to make the islands energy maintain,” says Garry. he’s installed malaise traps on and exciting at the time.” self-sufficient,” explains Garry. Pearson continues its protec- his property to help establish Solar was judged to be more tion of Race Rocks. After the baseline data on insect bio- IN THE ‘90S, David Scott practical than wind and no federal government destaffed mass. (disclosure—my husband) windmills were built. the lighthouse, the College and Ged McLean and grad signed a long-term lease and students from the Univer- THE CLEAN Current Tidal pays for an eco-guardian to sity of Victoria’s Institute for Power Demonstration Project provide a constant human Further reading metchosinmarine.ca Integrated Energy Systems at Race Rocks was the first presence on the island.
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