Strengthening British Columbia.
Help us create a better BC by reconnecting with its founding values.
Teaching BC History Through BC Chinook Jargon—A British Columbian Language
End our overdose crisis by ending the concentration of drug addicted people on the DTES and elsewhere.
End high house prices and achieve better urban planning by adopting tried and true principles summarized by Alain Bertaud.
Global Civic helps reconnect BC to its founding values through the Kumtuks Videos, revitalizing BC Chinook Jargon, and providing access to handwritten documents through the Transcribimus project.
Our Projects
BC Chinook Jargon
In 2014 Jay Powell was the only remaining fluent speaker of Chinook Jargon in British Columbia. He had learned it from elders while he was creating dictionaries and learning materials for endangered west coast languages. He met Sam Sullivan, former Mayor of Vancouver, and told him of his concern for the language. Sullivan committed to doing his best to revive the language in BC.
Transcribimus
Since 2012, Global Civic has sponsored Transcribimus, a volunteer-driven project providing free access to early Vancouver City Council minutes (1886–1896). In collaboration with the City of Vancouver Archives, the volunteers at Transcribimus have transcribed over 5,000 pages of hand-written historical documents, making them searchable and accessible to students, researchers, and the public.