• Canadian Coast Guard
• Office of Boating Safety - Transport Canada - includes safety requirements for your boat and Collision Regulations (fines)
• MMSI Database - Industry Canada
• Notices to Mariners (notmar) - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• MAREP Hydrographic Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons Marine Information Report

• The Environment Canada website can provide you with the current water levels of many rivers and lakes including the Fraser River at Mission, the Harrison River below Morris Creek, Harrison Lake at Harrison Hot Springs and many other British Columbia rivers and lakes.

• BC Coast Cams

• BC Gunkholing - This social site provides coastal BC boaters with a place to share stories, ask questions, get information and just get to know each other.
• Hypothermia - by Fernanda Morley R.N. C.C.R.N
• Speed conversion - Pat's Boating in Canada
• Pacific Yachting Magazine
• DIY Boat Owner Magazine - for do-it-yourselfers

• Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page

• Shelter Island Marina and Boatyard - another list of local boating links

 

 

• Ministry of Environment, BC Parks, Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park
• British Columbia.com
• Desolation Sound Panorama Map
• The Curve of Time, a memoir by M. WylieBlanchet
• Galiander Travels - 2000 - a couple's boat journal up to Desolation Sound
• Sally Simmons Travelogue - short blog about a trip to Desolation Sound
• Refuge Cove
• Robert Huston's Boat Journal to Desolation Sound - a Seattle's family's 1999 journal
• Life with Road and Sandra - travel journal about an "older" couple who met on the Internet

• Preparing for Boating
  Medical Emergencies -by Jim Thompson

Medical Emergencies are something about which we don't like to think, but they do happen. Jim Thompson, a medical doctor who lives in Prince Edward Island, has prepared the following tips for boaters in Atlantic Canada.

(This document is used here with his permission.)

 

We on the British Columbia coast face almost the same conditions as those in Atlantic Canada, so Jim has kindly allowed us to reprint this information for our Valley Squadron members here on the West Coast.