Qualla: Lund, British Columbia

Lund, British Columbia: Introduction

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0. Highway 101, the longest north-south highway route on the continent, runs from southern Mexico through the United States and up the British Columbia coast. It ends here, at a small craft harbour where fishing boats rock against a government wharf and water taxis idle before their afternoon run to Savary Island. Lund is the kind of place that exists because the road ran out of land. Two Swedish brothers, Frederick and Charles Thulin, arrived at this harbour in December 1889 and named it after Lund, Sweden, because the word was short, Swedish, and pronounceable by anyone. What they found when they arrived was not an empty harbour but a Tla'amin village called Klah ah men.

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Lund, British Columbia: The Thulin Brothers' Harbour

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Ken Walker kgw@lunar.ca, CC BY 2.5. Frederick and Charles Thulin came from Tryserum, near Valdemarsvik in southeastern Sweden. They built a store first, then added a post office in 1892, and two years later opened the first licensed hotel north of Vancouver. Logging and fishing drove the economy. Transportation was...

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Lund, British Columbia: End of the Road, Start of the Water

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit (WT-shared) Shaund, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lund sits at the northern terminus of Highway 101, locally known as the Sunshine Coast Highway. Powell River is twenty-two kilometers south by road, and from there BC Ferries crosses the Strait of Georgia to Comox on Vancouver Island. Pacific Coastal Airlines offers half-hour fli...

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Lund, British Columbia: A Village That Publishes Itself

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0. Lund's permanent population is small enough that a quarterly volunteer-run magazine, The Lund Barnacle, has covered the community's events and stories since its founding in 1988. The magazine is available at local shops and online, a testament to the particular kind of community ...

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Lund, British Columbia: Tla'amin Land

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Ken Walker kgw@lunar.ca, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before the Thulins named this harbour after a Swedish city, it was a Tla'amin village. The Tla'amin Nation's traditional territory encompasses the area around Lund and extends across the northern Strait of Georgia, including Savary Island, the Copeland Islands, and parts of Desol...

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