Community Organisations

"Internet Access for the Central Strait and Northern Gulf Islands"

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What's new - check out the newly installed debris barrier at the lake (attachment # 19)

 

Pete's Lake Water Users Society has been providing water via gravity-fed pipelines from Pete's Lake to its members at the north end of Lasqueti Island since 1987.

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LASQUETI YACHT CLUB 2023 

The Annual General Meeting was held on September 30, 2023. A new Board of Directors was elected (see below). A resolution was passed to eliminate the membership category of "Family". Single memberships for the 2024 season will be $30, including children of members under age 18.

LIRA was formed to represent the interests of property owners on Lasqueti Island.
When an issue affecting Lasqueti arises, LIRA provides the platform to give ratepayers a voice in the discussion.  When there is not much to discuss, we're off doing other things!

Lasqueti Island is part of the qathet Regional District. A regional district is set up to provide different services in different areas according to the needs and desires of each area’s residents and property owners. Only those who receive the service pay for it.

 
LINC works to conserve the natural ecosystems of Lasqueti Island and its surrounding islands and waters by facilitating education, stewardship and acquisition of legal interests in land. 
 
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The Lasqueti Volunteer Fire Department (LVFD) is staffed by a dedicated crew of volunteers, including:

Matching campaign to complete the new duplex elder cottage: all donations DOUBLED until June 15th!

Wow!  One of our benefactors has stepped up to DOUBLE all donations from now to June 15th, so if you've been waiting for a good time to support this project, it's here.   

Welcome to the Home of the LCA's Official Community Plan Review Steering Committee.

Contact us:  ocp [at] lasqueti [dot] ca

See below for our report for the LCA's 2020 AGM

 

The LCA was established in 1971 and incorporated as a charitable organization in 1978.   The purpose of the organization is simple: “to promote community development.” An annual general meeting is held in the spring, usually early May. Anyone who either owns property on Lasqueti or has lived here for a...

Update Oct 31st 2018: The Waste Management Committee is back. We are now called the Lasqueti Island Solid Waste Plan Monitoring and Advisory Committee, or LIPMAC. Members are Dave O. (chair), Brigitte D. (recorder), and David H..

Approximately 30 students from Kindergarten to grade 12 are enrolled in False Bay School. Kindergarten to grade 8 students are in two classes, primary and intermediate rooms while secondary students from grades 9-12 participate in Individual Secondary Program (ISP) in conjunction with North Island Distance Education School.

The Islands Trust is a federation of independent local governments, which plans land use and regulates development in the trust area.  The Lasqueti Local Trust Committee is responsible for Lasqueti and the surrounding small islands.
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Islands Trust Fund
200-1627 Fort Street, Victoria, BC  V8R 1H8
http://www.islandstrustfund.bc.ca
A conservancy for Canada's islands in the Salish Sea

The Lasqueti Island Community Arts Council exists to support and nurture creativity on the island through sponsorships and community events. It maintains the Arts Centre: a small gallery used for exhibitions, life drawing groups, creative projects, poetry classes, and film screenings.

Some of the dead fish from the Disaster of 2010 at Boat Cove, when the waterwheel jet plugged. We did OK at the other boxes on Wamer and Jenkin's creeks, so we score 50% for the year.