{"id":83,"date":"2018-08-20T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/?p=83"},"modified":"2019-08-31T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T00:19:42","slug":"83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/83\/","title":{"rendered":"New Albion-area elementary school named to honour region\u2019s First Nations history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maple Ridge \u2013 Pitt Meadows Board of Education is pleased to announce that the new elementary school in the Albion area of Maple Ridge (located at 24093 \u2013 104<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, Maple Ridge) will be named c\u0313\u0259sq\u0259nel\u0259 Elementary in honour of the First Nations history of this region.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2017, the Ministry of Education announced funding for the new elementary school and shortly afterwards the board began collecting community input on potential names for the new school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the passionate feedback we received calling for a school name that recognizes and celebrates the First Nations history in this area, we requested that the Kwantlen and Katzie Elders undertake a process to select a\u00a0h\u0259n\u0313q\u0313\u0259min\u0313\u0259m\u0313\u00a0name for the school,\u201d said Superintendent Sylvia Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Fern Gabriel, a h\u0259n\u0313q\u0313\u0259min\u0313\u0259m\u0313 language knowledge keeper and language and cultural teacher for Kwantlen First Nation, presented the name c\u0313\u0259sq\u0259nel\u0259 \u2013 \u2018Where the Golden Eagle Gathers\u2019 \u2013 to the Superintendent of Schools on behalf of the Kwantlen First Nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the Maple Ridge \u2013 Pitt Meadows School District for the decision for the name to be in the traditional language dialects that both Katzie and Kwantlen share with Musqueam, Tsawwassen, Semiahmoo and Kwikwetlem First Nations,\u201d said Cheryl\u00a0Gabriel, Kwantlen First Nation education coordinator. \u201cIt was a learning journey for all of us with the help of Fern\u00a0Gabriel, Sesmelot. When Fern came back with the name of c\u0313\u0259sq\u0259nel\u0259, \u2018Where the Golden Eagles Gather,\u2019 I loved it immediately and couldn\u2019t wait to share it with the school district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whenever possible the school district will use the International Phonetic Alphabet spelling of c\u0313\u0259sq\u0259nel\u0259. However, because certain characters used in First Nations languages are not available on regular computer keyboards, the alternate spelling c\u2019usqunela may also be used in some instances. c\u0313\u0259sq\u0259nel\u0259 Elementary is planned to open for the 2019\/20 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maple Ridge \u2013 Pitt Meadows Board of Education is pleased to announce that the new elementary school in the Albion area of Maple Ridge (located at 24093 \u2013 104th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/cusqunela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}