The 707 Collective invites you to their Community Mapping Day. It’s on Saturday, August 15th from 12:30 to 6 pm at the Women’s Institute Hall.

This is for people of all ages. Bring your stories about the park, and share your 707 memories, photos, and favourite places. Here are more details about the event:

Why? Community Mapping Day is your turn to tell us about the natural, cultural, and spiritual (intangible) resources, values, events, and sites in the 707 that are important to you as in individual, family, group, and community. This is important for the park management plan in order to identify values that need to be protected, managed, avoided, and noted for the future.

What? Every place has a history and behind the history are stories, songs, folklore, historical research, poetry, artwork, photographs, memories that can be connected to places on the 707 map. We have been gathering historical and ecological data that we will bring along and share with you.

How: It’s really informal. We will have large maps and air photos of the park up on the walls and on tables. Bring your knowledge, memories and stories and we will help you locate them on a map of the 707. You can write things up ahead of time, or fill out a “memory card”. If you bring photos, sketches, maps, or anything you’d like us to look at, we’ll have a scanner on site to make a digital copy (with your permission).

(Quoted section is from the 707 website.)

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