Aq'am

aqam English Etymology From en kut ʔaq̓am. Proper noun sp en ʔaq̓am. en Jesse Winter B.C.’s work to make forests more wildfire-proof is slow, careful and years behind w:The Globe and Mail 2025-02-17 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bcs-work-to-make-forests-more-wildfire-proof-is-slow-careful-and-years/ In April, 2023, Mr. Gray helped carry out a fire treatment near the Ktunaxa Nation community of Aq'am, outside Cranbrook, B.C., that was widely credited with helping save homes and protect the nearby regional airport during a wildfire later that summer. https://web.archive.org/web/20250602013339/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bcs-work-to-make-forests-more-wildfire-proof-is-slow-careful-and-years/ 2 June 2025 en Corey Bullock Fear rekindled in Ktunaxa Nation community as fire season begins w:CBC News 2024-04-26 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aqam-fire-rebuild-st-mary-river-wildfire-1.7183815 Last April, Aq'am, along with fire crews from nearby communities and the B.C. Wildfire Service, undertook a large-scale, 12-square-kilometre prescribed burn on Aq'am lands north of the St. Mary River and east of the Canadian Rockies International Airport. https://web.archive.org/web/20251021231439/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aqam-fire-rebuild-st-mary-river-wildfire-1.7183815 21 October 2025 en Wendy Stueck Making fire your friend The Globe and Mail 2024-01-08 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-prescribed-burn-bc-aqam-first-nation/ Near the Aq’am First Nation in November, B.C.-based fire ecologist Bob Gray looks out at forests destroyed by a wildfire four months earlier. The danger to populated areas could have been worse if not for a prescribed burn in April on some other Aq’am land. en Alyse Kotyk 182 unmarked graves found near former residential school outside Cranbrook, B.C. w:CTV News 2021-06-30 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/182-unmarked-graves-found-near-former-residential-school-outside-cranbrook-bc/ The statement says the Aq'am community conducted the search in 2020. It also says the residential school operated from 1912 to the 1970s.