I remember the first meeting held in Eliza Olson’s kitchen where discussion occurred about saving Burns Bog. Twenty-three years ago, we unraveled the overwhelming, but hidden plans to develop Burns Bog. It became clear then that from that moment Eliza would champion the ethos needed to preserve an essential component of the lower Fraser biosphere. For Eliza Olson it became a calling that later became everyone’s crusade.

Eliza’s dedication transformed not only the need to save the bog but engendered a collective conscious that turned the idea of marsh wasteland into magnificent wetland – a renaissance that awakened a culture of protecting what is left of one of earth’s rare and distinct ecosystems.