tl’e’tl’hwitul’ kwthu hwnan’uts’a’ sunihwulh | Single Canoes Competing

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• Title: tl’e’tl’hwitul’ kwthu hwnan’uts’a’ sunihwulh | Single Canoes Competing
• Description: Singles canoe race at the Cowichan Bay Regatta on 02 July 1906.
  (Published in a centennial edition of the Cowichan Leader on 07 September 1967).

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• Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
• Date of recording: 02 May, 2026
• Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:

tl’e’tl’hwitul’ kwthu hwnan’uts’a’ sunihwulh | Single canoes competing

1. ni’ yuhw tl’e’tl’hwitul’ kwthu hwnan’uts’a’ sunihwulh kws pe’ptitul’ tthu s’ul’eluhw tst, ’uw’ hay ’ul’ yuw’en’ulh stey ni’ ’utl’ tl’upalus.
   This must be our old people competing in a single canoe contest at the first canoe races held at Cowichan Bay.
2. kwun’a wulh hith ’i’ ni’ yu teti’ kwthu s’ul’eluhw tst ni’ ’utl’ tl’upalus.
   For many years the old people did canoe racing at Cowichan Bay.
3. ’i’ hwu saay’ tun’aalhtun kws nem’ tl’e’tl’hwitul’.
   The ones you see here are getting set for the race to begin.

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Key information

• Time period or Date: 1906
• Theme(s): Canoe Races, Canoes and Boats, Cowichan Bay
• Location: Cowichan Bay
• Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
• Photographer credit: Unknown
• Individuals identified: Not Specified

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