Washed Away is produced by Revelstoke Museum and Archives.
Filmmaker Agathe Bernard
Directed by Agathe Bernard and Cathy English, Curator of Revelstoke Museum and Archives.
The film shares stories of displacement on the Columbia River, beginning with the displacement of the Sinixt people due to colonization and settlement, and their erasure from the Canadian landscape. Approximately 2000 settlers were displaced from the Columbia River valley between Castlegar, B.C. and Revelstoke, B.C. when the Hugh Keenleyside Dam was completed at Castlegar in 1969. This created a huge loss of farmland and the destruction of a rural lifestyle that many families had sustained for generations.
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