Takaya Tours
Private (BC-owned) · Activity / ExperienceTakaya Tours is an Indigenous-led tourism operator offering cultural canoe tours and kayak rentals on Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm, run by guides from the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation. Operating from two locations — Cates Park in North Vancouver and Belcarra Regional Park — the tours feature traditional 35-foot ocean-going canoes, with guides sharing legends, songs, and stories of Coast Salish history. A touring cyclist stopping here would experience a uniquely immersive connection to the ancient Indigenous landscape of the North Shore waterfront.
- Indigenous-owned business
- Indigenous-operated
- Centres Indigenous culture and heritage
Listed by Indigenous Tourism BC ›
This place is in the traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, Qayqayt, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), and Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla.
Territory data from Native Land Digital, for educational purposes only.
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