Biography

Sasquatch Island is my operations where I listened to Peggy and sought to teach others how to hopefully have that encounter of the hairy kind. This is passing on my knowledge so others may do as I and get close to a Sasquatch. You see, I am lucky for I have lived a life where I have been immersed in stories, dances, art, legends and encounter stories about Sasquatch 

I was born to be a commercial fisherman and this allowed me to hear the tales of Sasquatch over a 48 year career throughout all of coastal British Columbia Canada. We would tie to docks in small First Nations communities or be in ports where I met others from throughout the coast. Of course, I was always the one to ask, “What do you know about Sasquatch?” 

I would captain boats for many years and I ensured in my fishing journeys or my time off that I would explore places looking for Sasquatch that few would ever see. 

In the early 1990’s I would often call my friend the famous Sasquatch investigator Dr. John Bindernagel and we would go investigate Sasquatch.  John had a doctorate in biology and ecology.

 John liked what I brought to the table in regard to learning about Sasquatch from a First Nations (a.k.a. Indian) perspective.  

 During my 20+ year friendship with John he would teach me much about the scientist approach to what Sasquatch may be and what their characteristics possibly meant. 

I was born in Alert Bay off northeastern Vancouver Island which is the homeland of the Namgis Tribe of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) First Nation. My father was a full blood Kwakwaka’wakw and my mother a full blood Cree First Nation from central Canada in Saskatchewan.  

Alert Bay was and still is a town with the highest concentration of Dzoonakwa carvings on earth. Dzoonakwa being the name for Sasquatch for the Kwakwaka’wakw Tribe. Massive memorial poles with the highest crest of the tribe can be seen throughout this town. As a young boy I would fear the memorial poles in the towns graveyard for at the base was carved Dzoonakwa with her outstretched arms, sleepy eyes, puckered lips and large breasts. 

As a kid we would hear that the real Dzoonakwa/Sasquatch is always watching children. She’s not allowed to take them, but if they misbehave and act up she will come at night and with her big hairy arm reach in the window where you’re sleeping and grab you. She will rub spruce tree sap/pitch into your eyes so you are blind and can’t open them. She will toss you into her basket on her back or stuff you into a cedar bark fiber sack and take you into the forest. She will run deep into the forest, up a mountain and to her invisible home. She will boil you up and eat you! 

So behave and listen to your elders. Do not act up and have a tantrum, don’t steal, no fighting or arguing. You also must do your choirs and schoolwork. Dzoonakwa to we kids and our kids now a days, was and is The Boogy Man.

These are my designs of Dzoonakwa taking bad children.

As a child and throughout my life, we Kwakwaka’wakw attend the great and ancient ceremony called Potlatch. This is when a Chief invites all to come to the ceremonial Big House where he opens his box of treasure consisting of crests. His family dance to many men drumming on a hollow cedar log with batons. Booming of drum accompanied with deep baratone singing, crests come to life in dance with carved masks and regalia dipicting that animal or supernatural creature. 

Here is where we see Dzoonakwa danced at every Potlatch. Each family has their own story being sung about an ancestor witnessing a Dzoonakwa/Sasquatch. Being our highest ranked crest, all family’s have rights to the Dzoonakwa crest and the right to perform it at their Potlatch. 

This is something Sasquatch Island can do that no other Sasquatch speaker, author or investigator can do. 

We have been educating people at many conferences about the Kwakwaka’wakw connection to the Dzoonakwa/Sasquatch. 

I have spent decades living and working in my beloved bush/water world of coastal British Columbia. When not out commercial fishing in my younger years, I was always out hunting, mushroom picking, sport/food fishing or conducting Took-A-Looks. Took-A-Looks being the name for getting out of the concrete world and getting back to living as Sasquatch does, but carrying a gun or two for protection and food. 

I would become a trophy hunting guide specializing in black and grizzly bears. This career brought me to areas of the coast hunting where few if any humans walked. Some abandoned logging road systems at the head of inlets you could see no one had been there in decades. Harvesting many bears, wolves and deer I've learned a way of life that few in these modern days know. This bush knowledge of hunting honed me to be one of the rarest and most unique Sasquatch investigators.

I was one of the pioneers of boat-based whale watching tours and boat based grizzly bear viewing expeditions on The North American west coast. I operated an Eco-cultural tourism company that offered boat adventures and sea kayaking with whales for decades. I still use the five cabins that look like traditional cedar Big House’s for Sasquatch expeditions. In 2019 Sasquatch Island conducted the 1st commercial night boat Sasquatch expedition with a $30,000.00 built in FLIR!