There is a report of a sighting at Mesachie Lake, BC on Vancouver island (I was just there)
Here is some local folklore and the originial report is from BFRO #15274
Of course, if this has been discussed at some length recently please forgive the error.

http://www.cowichanlake.ca/index.php?page=area_hmesachie.htm

"Mesachie Man

The Tzun-a-quat, or Mesachie Man, roamed the hills around the Lake. He is supposed to have come from the West Coast, over the mountains and down Robertson River to Mesachie Lake, where he made his headquarters. He was very large and fierce. He was covered with hair, and had claws on the end of his fingers and a head and mouth like a bear. I cannot tell you what his particular depredations were, but the Indians held him very much in awe, and parts of the lake were taboo.
Nitinat Charlie told me that he had once seen the Mesachie Man quite close. I asked him why he didn’t shoot him. He said he was “delete quash” (too frightened). To appreciate these stories one has to understand the Indians and listen to them as they recite them in their own way. They then become quite interesting.

Legend has it that Mesachie Man was half man and half gorilla and that he had escaped from a sailing vessel that had foundered on the West Coast. Fact or fiction??? Many people have claimed to have seen or heard this creature. Trevor Green remembers his father telling him about blood-curdling yells and the dreadful evil face with beetling brows and prognathous jaw. According to his aunt the creature lived in a cave on Mesachie Moutain. She maintained that the Indians were terrified of him and that the women and children would rarely venture from the camp on the shore.



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Daily Colonist, B.C. July 20, 1905
He is Still Wild
Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C.

He is still Wild, the Cowichan Leader says:
The wild man of Vancouver Island has again been seen by a prospector while out in the mountains last week near Cowichan Lake.
He reports seeing what he believes was the much-talked-of-wild man. He saw something through the bush, and at first sight thought it was a bear and raised his rifle, moving a little closer, when to his surprise a man straightened up before him. He immediately lowered his gun and shouted to him, but the wild man at once sprang into the thicket and was soon lost to view. The prospector tried to follow his track, but on account of the dense undergrowth was forced to give up the chase. Notation:The Lake Cowichan story does not specify that the wild man was covered with hair, but it is a follow-up to a couple of sighting reports from Horne Lake about a wild man with “a profusion of hair all over the body.” Julius Szego and a friend, in the summer, 1975, watched a seven foot tall sasquatch pull roots out of the water near Skutz Falls on the Cowichan River. (Recorded by Guy Phillips I\of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and reported by Tom Steenburg in his second book. Also reported in John Bindermagel’s book “North America’s Great Ape, The Sasquatch” page 82) "

I had to go look up 'prognathous, LOL!

Smitty

Some of the language of those old reports harkens back to an era when we really used the language as we only had a few media in which to showcase it. Politicians would make speeches that lasted hours and their oratory was full of words that have fallen out of use (and people would snore a lot)

That was a good word in anthropology circles when I was in school. I also like 'hirsute'

Cheers

Alex

I have been in this area numerous times in the past year.. Havent even gotten a wiff. Darn.

That's a really neat avatar!

Do you think the hotspot has cooled off?

I know it is very thick bush there and quite mountainous, my aunt lives near Lake Cowichan and I was up island at Port Alberni. The sightings near there were on the way to Tofino I understand.

What I am going to do here is to look around the Ontario hotspots in the daytime around the cliffs and small hills that we have here for any signs.

Please keep us posted as I am quite sure the number of possible individuals on the island is higher than here.

When I was in Port Alberni I was looking up at the mountain at one point and saw a shape move between two stands of trees (lots of clearcuts there) and just wondered.

Cheers

Alex