Hey everybody~

I've been reading through the sighting reports the past couple of months, and everytime I read one, I want to know exactly where on a map it took place. Not finding many maps online, I decided to make my own.

I found a mac program to plot data using logitude/latitude info - Imap at
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/bio/sys/imap/ - and used the Gov. of BC Ministry of Resource Management website to get the location data.

It took awhile for me to find an appropriate map - it had to be drawn with latitude and longitude lines parallel instead of curved as most are done - and I was surprised to see how much larger Canada is than the US in term of land-mass - we're 3 times the size of your puny little country!

I searched out every BC sighting I could find online and plotted them on the map - where I couldn't get specific location details I plotted the nearest town, lake, river, creek or mountain. This is not likely 100% accurate, but I wanted to get a general idea of the distribution of Sasquatch in this province, and since I'm very visually-oriented it helped alot.

These are sightings from 1864 - 2002. According to Bobbie Short's website, John Green has 378 recorded sightings, while I've only got about 160-200 off the net, so it looks like I'm going to have to buy a book finally.

These are direct eye-to-figure sightings only. No footprints, sounds or smells were recorded.

Looking at the results, I was surprised at how many encounters took place on the Queen Charlotte islands off the coast of BC. It seems the best way to spot a Sasquatch in this province is to hop in a kayak, paddle to a beach on a remote island, set up camp and wait for the rocks to start flying in the middle of the night!

There is a cluster of sightings around Vancouver, but most of those are from the 1800's and early 1900's before the city developed to its present size. There was however a modern-day sighting in the mountains above North Vancouver - which I can see out my window right now as I type this - at Grouse Mountain - and footprints were found in the nearby Seymor Demonstration Forest.

This has been a fun exercise and a much-needed distraction from all the war-news going on at the moment.

The most recent activity in BC occured in Nov 2002, in which multiple witnesses on Vacouver Island saw individual animals and what appeared to be an adult and two juveniles between Port Alberni and Tofino, on Radar Hill and Long Beach, and strange howling heard around Indian Bay.

I'm going to keep doing this for all the reports I read, so eventually I'll have a North American Sightigs map built.

If anybody knows of any other BC sighting reports other than the ones listed bellow, I'd love to hear about them. Thanks!

-Ray


References:


http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/g2_search_by_name.htm
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_county_report...asp?state=ca-bc

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rfthomas/cb/bc.html

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/sbs/bc.html

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/stories.htm

http://www.ufobc.ca/Supernatural/Bigfoot/

http://www.cactusventures.com/webstuff4/bgftworld.htm

http://anywhere.150m.com/harrisonsasquatch.htm

http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/cbcsasq.htm

http://home.twcny.rr.com/bigfootsasquatch/bigfoot.html

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/folklore/monster/sasq.htm

Excellent Ray,I made a similar map of FL. based on the BFRO database.I'm also making a second map based on reports from books and some of the other web databases.theres definately enough material to wade through to keep you busy for awhile.

Hey Raven. I been fishing in the Queen Charolettes many times. Makes ya kinda wonder about how the big hairy guys got all the way out there on them islands. But ya gotta admit, other than Sandspit and a couple little towns on the East side, and a bunch a salmon lodges on the North, it would make great habitat. That's about as isolated as it gets. You've never lived till you've had to take a 6 hour ride across them islands because the float planes can't fly because of the weather. They even broke my bottle of booze all over my clothes. I smelled like a direct descendant of Jack Daniels all week long. Great fishing though.

Mark

You did a good job putting the map together.

Great job with the map. What is terrific about this is that I purchased about a year ago these old archeology magazines from 100 years ago. One of the magazines had an article in it about the rock cairn graves around this area. Most of the grave sites plotted on their map coincide with your map.

They had a picture of a skeleton in a grave site and talked about the skeletons shape of the head. They didn't find any artifacts in these rock cairns. Apparently the bones went to the museum in Victoria and I'd like to make some inquires there to see if the museum is still there and if they have any information about these skeletons. If I have the time I will try to retype the article for everyone. Wish I had a scanner to upload the picture. The article mentioned how the head was shaped differently. They thought the head was shaped after birth the way some indian tribes do that. The picture showed a skeleton with upper thigh bones that were really wide compared to a human skeleton picture. More later. goldie Thanks again for the map.

Very nice work Raven. Now if I only had the time to do that for us folks out here in Ontario!

I need to do one for the state of Washington!

I have one in the works for the Province of Alberta.

I've made them for Michigan dozens of times, but it was on a regular paper map, I'm going to make one for Michigan with Paint shop Pro 8. I'm just having trouble finding a suitable map online that I can use, anyone got any suggestions?

The first link is sectional, may not work for what you want ...
http://www.michigan.gov/cgi/0,1607,7-158-1...65571--,00.html

This one is a stylized topo map...
http://climate.geo.msu.edu/mi-map.html

This one outlines the counties w/ names...
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/michigan.gif

This one is good, a little large (301k) but shows counties and water features...
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_stat...michigan_90.jpg

hope you find something

Howlingmad, that last one was just what I was looking for, it's perfect! thanks a lot!

my pleasure

Hmm... I should have asked you guys before I seached all over for my map. I ended up buying one and scanning it after I couldn't find a decent one online.

I'd like to update my map, as I know there are alot of other BC sightings detailed in books out there - I used only info found online. I'm just starting to build my bf book collection - does anybody know of any specific books with good B.C sighting listings?

-Ray

Im not sure if your sightings list includes mine at cultus lake in june 1999.


Ill have to go to bfro to find the listing number.

The number is 3368 on the bfro BC map.