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Coleman Creek Watershed Total Drainage Area = 0.32 km2 Length = 2.43 km Orientation: North-South Elevation Range: 130-252 m

• Coleman Creek is a tributary of Thames Creek and flows into Thames between Church St. and Upton Road north of Lynn Valley Road
• Originates north of McNair Drive near the intersection of McNair and Mountain Highway
• Bordered by Thames (east) and Kilmer (west) Creeks
• 21% impervious area in watershed (GVRD, 1999)

• Before mid-1800’s -North Vancouver District was inhabited by Coast Salish peoples
• Hastings Creek and its numerous tributaries make up the prime spawning area for most of the Lynn’s migratory runs of cutthroat, steelhead, coho and chinook
• 1860’s - The first significant non-native settlement began. The Lynn-Hastings community is the 2^nd oldest on the North Shore
• 1870-1926 – Old growth forest in Lynn Valley logged (trees over 90 m. high & 11 m. in circumference)
• 1902 – Keith Road built opening up Western Seymour for development?.
• 1958 – Second Narrows Bridge opens

• Fish: coho as far as Frederick Road and cuttroat as far as Wellington Drive
• Vegetation: Coastal Western Hemlock Zone
• Wildlife – besides providing habitat for various species, the riparian corridor serves as a travel corridor.
• Residential

• Coho head found in creek; the head had been cut off with a knife –Fall 2000 (Streamkeepers)
• Homeowners in area have pipe discharging substances into the creek
• Water quality – 27 storm drains discharge into Coleman
• The area has been highly urbanized. Coleman has been culverted and channelized and many landowners have removed the vegetation protecting the creek and/or built structures in or close to the creek
• Culverts at and above McNair Drive, Mill Street and a channelized cement flume above Demsey Road are likely impassable to fish
• Wooden structure in creek acts as dam and is preventing the passage of fish. Wood is aging and in danger of giving way

• Municipal Gov’t: District of North Vancouver (DNV); District Parks Department; Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre
• Regional: GVRD (regional parks, sewers and air quality); GVWD
• Provincial Gov’t: Ministry of Transportation and Highways; Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks
• Federal Gov’t: Department of Fisheries and Oceans; Environment Canada; Transport Canada
• Local NGO’s: North Shore Streamkeepers; North Shore Fish and Game Club; Pacific Streamkeepers Federation; Lynn Valley Community Association
• BC Hydro
• School District 44
• North (Shore/Vancouver) Historical Society

• The North Shore Streamkeepers have just begun conducting spawner surveys (2000)
• School District released fry above Lynn Valley Road
• 1997 – GIS mapping - District of North Vancouver

• The issue of the wooden dam in the creek needs to be addressed – especially as the structure is aging (Streamkeepers)

• Map: TRIM/UTM - BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks
• Map: District of North Vancouver
• Bouton, Cherry. (2000). North Shore History www.cherrybouton.com/nshistory.html
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• Department of Fisheries and Oceans. (1989). Stream Summary Catalogue.
• District of North Vancouver. (2001). GIS Database.
• District of North Vancouver. Lynn Valley Official Community Plan
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• Gabby. "Logging History of the North Shore". (1994). North Vancouver: Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre Library.
• The Lynn-Seymour Rivers and the Hastings Stream: Geologic History of Their Origin.
• Maynard, Denny. (1977). Guidebook for Geologic Field Trips in the Lynn Canyon-Seymour Area of North Vancouver. Dept. of Geologic Science, UBC.
• Methven, Sharon. (1987). "Bio-Physical Survey of Lower Lynn Creek and Tributaries". North Vancouver: Lynnmour Community School Association.
• Stevens, Victoria and A. Eriksson. "Current Trends Along the Lower Fraser River". Government of Canada. Vancouver, 1997.
• Steward, Barry. "Lynn Valley’s Creeks and Fish Habitats". (1975). North Vancouver: Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre.
• Wheeler, Lynn. (March 12, 1975). ‘Copy of a talk given by Lynn Wheeler’. Housed at the North Shore Archives.