Another look back at the Swinomish Slough
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July 2, 2014
BYE-BYE ALKI – The retired Seattle Fire Department boat Alki, abandoned at the La Conner Marina, was on its way to Bellingham Tuesday, with Dunlap Towing’s Tom Zimmerman at the helm of the tug, towing it north through Swinomish Channel. The new owner bought it from the Port of Skagit on Friday, according to Port spokesman Carl Molesworth. – Photo by Judy Zimmerman
The recent “La Conner Weekly News” article on the history of the Swinomish Channel has prompted a more complex story of the channel’s alterations over time.
The Swinomish Slough, first called the Canim (canoe) Passage by newcomers to the area in the 1850s, was a narrow, winding waterway, so shallow that during the summertime, farmers waded their horses through it to obtain fresh drinking water from springs on the Swinomish Reservation.
In 1893, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the slough at the behest of La Conner merchants, who were frustrated by the shallow nature of the slough and the co...
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