Flash animation content: British Columbia is shaped and given life by water. Yellow-headed Blackbirds nest in colonies in rich marshes. First Peoples: First Nations canoe styles and materials are highly specialized for use on rivers, lakes and ocean. Gitxsan model ocean-going canoe with figures, Skeena River. note Gitxsan needs to have that line under the x. History: Waterways once acted as the main link among many of British Columbia's isolated communities. Paddlewheeler SS Kaslo on Kootenay Lake in September 1900. Photo credits Waters background image. Robert Cannings. Yellow-headed Blackbird. Stephen Cannings. Gitxsan canoe. RBCM 12010. SS Kaslo on Kootenay Lake. BC Archives B-09774.