Yearbook – Heritage Committee
Yearbook – Heritage Committee
The Tyee Club has been publishing a yearbook since 1926. The small 4×6” books contain a surprisingly large amount of information including catch records, trophy winners, and photographs along with the Club’s bylaws and regulations. In an effort to help manage publishing costs, a yearbook is typically prepared every 3-4 years. The last yearbook came out in 2024 and can be purchased at the Clubhouse for $10 along with past copies of previous yearbooks. If you would like to learn more about Club history, you will find these yearbooks very interesting. They are also a great gift for your angling friends!
Catch Record Project with the University of Victoria
In the May 2026 the Tyee Club completed a 2-year project with the University of Victoria to digitize the Club’s catch records. Several people participated in the project which took 452 hours to complete. It involved:
– photographing all of the Club’s catch record registers
– creating a webpage to provide access to the photographs
– graduate students manually typing in over 78,000 individual entries
– reviewing & correcting the data
– reporting on and publishing the records
The University of Victoria became involved with the project from a fisheries research perspective while the Tyee Club was interested in both safeguarding it records and making them available to club members and the general public.
The records have now been published on the Club’s website under the “Catch Record” banner along with an extensive report which provides background information on the project and some of the findings. The opportunity now exists to start analysing the records.
The University of Victoria used the Club’s catch records to prepare and is in the process of publishing an academic paper on the reasons why the average size of the west coast Chinook salmon has been in decline. The University’s report will be published on the Club’s website when it becomes available.