As part of our PenPals Project, we wrote about what it is like to live in Kyuquot.  

Getting To Kyuquot.

By Trina

Kyuquot cannot be reached by road. People have to take a boat or airplane to get here. It’s more expensive to get to Kyuquot than anywhere else.      

We have to go in a boat in order to go to Campbell River or any other town.

It takes about half an hour to get to Fair Harbour from Kyuquot. It costs about $70-$150 for a boat ride to Fair Harbour. The water taxi boats are up to 30 feet long.

We phone the taxi drivers to make arrangements with them. 

 In order to get freight here, like for the stores and whatnot, we order it in with the Uchuck, which is a coastal freighter. The Uchuck also carries tourists and kayakers. It costs about $55 to get from Gold River to Kyuquot.

The airplane comes in three times a week. It comes in on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. For 3 or 5 passengers to get here from Gold River it costs about $125.

 Me and my family go to town by boat it takes about half an hour. Then we stop in Fair Harbour then we unpack all the stuff out of the boat. Then we go in a vehicle to Campbell River it takes us about 3 or 4 hours to get there. We go to Campbell River to shop for groceries.

by Chantelle

Sometimes in Kyuquot we have garage sales and bake sales. The garage sale is when you are selling cloths, furniture, toys, and old junk. 

At bake sales they go really crazy selling chummis. Chummis is really sweet food like as pies, squares, cup cakes, cakes, and a lot more sweet stuff. A lot of people here in k-town they make really good sweet food like as Natalie, Mrs. Larre, Shirley, Janice, Larissa, Patsy, and more people.

Sometimes people sell dinners at their houses. When they sell food or clothes they do it to make money for going to town or to buy food that why they do it. 

 In Kyuquot we have a lot of really GOOD bakes sales and garage sales.

by Brandon

We have a general store here in Kyuquot. The general store is owned by a lady named Susie Bostrom. Susie grew up here in Kyuquot. The general store sells electronic stuff, food, toys and etc. The general store is the biggest store here in Kyuquot. The general store is on another island the island it is on is called “Walters Island.” To get to the store you have to go by boat. 

The general store is only about 20 by 30 ft. The general store has only 3 aisles. The one on the right sells hardware stuff and the one in the middle sells food, and the one on the left sells clothes. The stuff that’s in the store comes from a big boat called the Uchuck III. 

The Uchuck comes in every Thursday; to bring the groceries and freight – when a person needs to bring something heavy on a small boat they get the people to bring it on the Uchuck. Some students have jobs in the general store and they help bring the groceries in the store. 

by Dawn-Jo

Nan Hilda’s store has ice cream and regular food and junk food and some toys and clothes and more. Nan Hilda is a grandma to every body in Kyuquot and she’s in her 80’s

She has candy chips pop bracelets gum smokes and cake mix and cookies and so much more. 

Tracey’s store has junk food and toys and some games and a big thing of gel pens and more.  Tracey is white lady in Kyuquot a store and Tracey’s store is attached to her house and in junk food she has chips pop candy and choc let. 

Ginny’s gift store has toy’s native items gift-wrapping paper and glow in the dark stick’s and more.  Ginny is all most every lil kid’s auntie what Ginny has in her gift store she has grumps and nice pens books and bears and more. 

Christine has junk toys and hair stuff and glow in the dark stick’s and more that we don’t know about.  She married one of our band members she has junk such as candy and hair stuff and earring’s and bracelets and rings and so much more.

by Angel N

We have gym nights when we play basketball, volleyball, floor hockey, and badminton. We have gym for kids and adults. 

We even have games nights we play board games, card games. We have movie night where we watch movies. The games and the movie are for everybody. There are cakes and more junk at the game nights. It’s free.

At the school we have dances and sometimes have dances at our community center. The dances are for fundraising for fieldtrips and gradations and other events.

by Randy

There are about 48 students at the Kyuquot School. There’s a gym, 4 portables, and 1 main part of the school. There are 3 bathrooms, an office, and a library, 3 classrooms, and a janitor’s room. 

We play basketball, badminton, floor hockey, volleyball, and floor soccer in the gym. We hold gym nights, but it sucks because the adults don’t let us play and we let them play, and when they do they make the rules as they play. We get adults’ volleyball on Mondays, badminton on Tuesdays, and basketball on Wednesdays, on Thursdays sometimes there’s badminton or sometimes there’s volleyball, and on Fridays there’s floor Hockey. 

 Each class has 3 grades. The first three grades are grades are 1,2,3. The next three classes are 4,5,6. The next three classes are 7,8,9. The next and last three classes are 10,11,12. In the first class have 12 children in the 1,2,3. There are 7kids in the 4,5,6. The next class there’s suppose to be 10 students in the 7,8,9. The very last class has

We get to use the computers on Tuesdays, or Thursdays after school. We get them on the weekends sometimes.  Mr. Rockwell lets us in the computer.

by Lyla

The cop’s name is Russ. He comes to Kyuquot every couple weeks for a couple of days. Cop is a short way to say policeman in English. Russ comes to Kyuquot to do his job. His job is to protect people and to stop people who do drugs and bad things. He has lots of ways of protecting people and stopping people from being bad. 

Sarah and Donna work at the out post hospital . Sarah and Donna are nurses and they take turns. They help injured or sick people and they do check ups. They also give workshops. Sometimes a doctor comes to Kyuquot and people have appointments like in a regular doctors office in a city.