With the Pandemic highlighting the importance of having high speed internet, measures that the Province of BC have taken to bring said internet to remote, rural and Indigenous communities have been seeing real progress in Haida Gwaii.
Fibre-optic cable-laying activities between Haida Gwaii and the B.C. coastal mainland have been completed thanks to a subsea cable-laying vessel arriving in the area.
The cable laying is only one part of the Connected Coast project, which will look to bring high-speed internet to around 139 rural and remote communities, stretching from north of Prince Rupert to Haida Gwaii and south to Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
So far, the project is about 45 percent complete and was celebrated by the provincial and federal governments, as well as the Haida and Coastal First Nations, coming together to celebrate the connectivity progress and the passing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The project is looking to have all of BC connected to high speed internet by 2027.
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