Gabriola Island Trust Area Includes:

Gabriola Island Local Trust Area includes 20 associated islands including:

  • DeCourcy Island
  • Link Island
  • Mudge Island
list of all Islands

News Gabriola LTA

Find out what's happening in and around your local trust area

Local Government Elections

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Honouring National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day

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Species at Risk: Great Blue Heron fannini subspecies

SARA Species of Special Concern Life stage and activities observable in the fall: adults fishing and hunting at the edges of the ocean, lakes and […]

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Great Blue Heron. Photo by Lisa Wilcox

Species at Risk: Western Screech-Owl

SARA Threatened Species Life stages observable in the winter: adult pairs courting in advance of breeding season What’s that sound? It’s the Western Screech-Owl’s courtship […]

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A Western Screech Owl pops its head out

Gabriola LTC 2026 Regular Meeting Schedule – Adopted

The Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee 2026 business meeting schedule is now available. To review the agendas, minutes and recordings of any Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee […]

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Species at Risk: Little Brown Myotis

SARA Endangered Species Life stage and activities observable in the summer: adults in flight at dusk using sonar to catch flying insects As dusk settles […]

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Little Brown Myotis

Species at Risk: Northern Red-legged Frog

SARA Species of Special Concern Life stage observable in the spring: egg-masses and tadpoles developing in ponds The Northern Red-legged Frog, not to be mistaken […]

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Northern Red-legged Frog

Islands Trust Council Statement on the Scope and Meaning of Section 3 of the Islands Trust Act (Object Clause)

On May 6, 2025, Islands Trust Council met in Committee of the Whole, to discuss the Statement on the Scope and Meaning of Section 3 […]

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Meet Your Local Trust Committee

Tobi Elliott

Tobi Elliott

Gabriola Island Trustee, Executive Committee Vice-Chair

Susan Yates

Susan Yates

Gabriola Island Trustee

Laura Patrick

Laura Patrick

Salt Spring Island Trustee, Islands Trust Council Chair

 

 

Island Profile

Gabriola Island Local Trust Area includes over 20 islands. The local trust area features critical habitat for the Marbled Murrelet seabird and is frequented by Double-crested Cormorants. Vital to salmon, 21% of the Gabriola Local Trust Area foreshore has eelgrass beds and many beaches are suitable spawning habitat for forage fish, the principal diet of Chinook salmon.

Eelgrass beds

21

%

of foreshore

Protected areas

9.2

%

protected

Wetlands

16

%

of area

Sensitive Ecosystems

36.9

%

of area