Partners
As a ‘group of groups” that represents a broad array of interests, membership in the Gorge Waterway Initiative (GWI) includes representatives from community and environmental groups, landowners organizations, local governments and local government advisory committees, and recreational users.
The partners in the GWI are:
Community organizations:
- Burnside Gorge Community Association
- Capital Mental Health Association
- Friends of Cuthbert Holmes
- Gorge Tillicum Community Association
- Gorge Waterway Action Society
- Portage Inlet Protection Society
- Portage Inlet Sanctuary Colquitz Estuary Society
- POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
- Seachange Marine Conservation Society
- Seaquaria in Schools
- The Land Conservancy
- Habitat Acquisition Trust
- Veins of Life Watershed Society
- Victoria Canoe and Kayak Club
- Victoria West Community Association
- World Fisheries Trust
Local Government:
- Capital Regional District
- City of Victoria / Victoria Shoreline and Environmental Advisory Committee
- District of Saanich / Saanich Environmental Advisory Committee
- Township of Esquimalt / Esquimalt Parks and Recreation Commission
- Town of View Royal / View Royal Parks, Recreation and Environment Advisory Committee