Thomas Wamiss of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation in northeastern Vancouver Island was loading up on water Friday for the first leg of his journey
Thomas Wamiss was busy stuffing bottles of water into every nook and cranny of a bike trailer on Friday morning as he prepared to start his 500-kilometre Sobriety Walk for Cancer, a fundraiser for the B.C. Cancer Foundation,.
The 50-year-old is no stranger to the route — last June, he covered the same distance, going from north to south, in a similar fundraiser that raised $3,400. He looked around for weights to train with and all he could find in his house were two cans of Chunky soup — he chuckled at the obvious irony when he retold the story.As he got fitter, his energy level improved, leading him to wonder: “What am I going to do with all this?”
At the Friday morning ceremony at Mile 0, Wamiss would frequently switch between English and the language of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations. Wamiss said he will speak the Kwak’wala traditional tongue in schools and meeting places along his route.
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