![]() The historical record shows that it was not until Bill C-31 was passed in 1985 that children of mothers who had married non-native men, regained the status that had been lost. Federal regulations in effect at that time decreed that as Ida, daughter of a line of hereditary chiefs, had married non-native, she had lost her status. The Gustave Planes family made their home in a two-storey frame home next to Sooke’s Reserve No.1. ![]() Jack Planes was born in 1933, to mother Ida Lazzar and dad Gustave Planes, who hailed from France. Had Jack’s life not been cut off by COVID, he would have been so proud at the youngster’s achievement.Ī grandson of his eldest daughter Jackie and her husband Brian Deyaeger, 16-year-old Luke Deyaeger, who grew up in Quesnel, is competing in 100 and 400 metre races and the triple jump, and is one of some 5,000 participants in the games event which includes 16 sports. Our remarks today coincide with the news that one of his great grandsons is representing the T’Sou-ke people at the North American Indigenous Games being held in Halifax this month. ![]() It’s two years since the passing of Jack Planes, onetime chief of the T’Sou-ke Nation, whose entire life was lived in Sooke. ![]()
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